A once-profitable market for a key piece of e-commerce software is cooling, forcing big software makers to rethink their strategies. In the past three years, BEA Systems, IBM, Oracle and Sun ...

Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and wrote about processors, digital photography, AI, quantum computing, computer science, materials science, supercomputers, drones, browsers, 3D ...

The primary function of a client-server system is to create a division of labor between a centralized server and the individual computers that are running your software. This model has a number of ...

This week, Redmondmag.com talked with Microsoft about the Windows Server Software Defined (WSSD) program. WSSD is a fairly new Microsoft validation program for OEM hardware makers, with the first ...

News this morning from storage vendor Scality that the company is announcing the general availability of its S3 Server Software. The offering is an open source version of Scality’s S3 API and allows ...

You always have the default backup tool from Microsoft, known as Windows Server Backup (WSB). This is a built-in tool, but it is not automatically configured; therefore, you will have to do so the ...

Microsoft announced on Oct. 30 that it expanded SQL Server passive use rights for organizations licensing SQL Server with Software Assurance (SA) coverage. Organizations with SA coverage on SQL Server ...

Thinking about malware lately? If you are, consider the fact that your servers may be part of the problem. Search giant Google Inc.’s anti-malware team in June discovered that servers running ...