Pedro Hernandez

ORLANDO, Fla.—At the Citrix Synergy Conference here, Dell announced new virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) offerings aimed at small and midsize businesses (SMBs) that have largely stayed on the thin-client sidelines due to cost and deployment concerns. The Round Rock, Texas-based server and PC maker’s SMB VDI slate includes the new Dell Appliance for Wyse-Citrix. “It’s […]

ORLANDO, Fla.—One of the biggest announcements at the Citrix Synergy conference here in Orlando was Workspace Cloud, a new virtual application delivery and management service from the virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) specialist. Meant to enable the company’s customers and partners to “use cloud services to accelerate the design, composition and delivery of amazing workspaces,” Citrix […]

ORLANDO, Fla.—Citrix CEO Mark Templeton stood before attendees at the Citrix Synergy conference in Orlando today to reiterate his company’s support for its virtual application platform, XenApp. “We’ve left some questions in your mind about XenApp,” he admitted early into his address. “We love XenApp because you love XenApp.” In a keynote centered on the […]

Microsoft has announced a public preview of Office 365 Import Service, a new offering that allows organizations to quickly import their Personal Storage Table (PST) files into Exchange Online, the company’s cloud-based hosted email platform. PST is a file format used by Microsoft to store email messages, tasks, calendar events and other items. Two years […]

Contrary to an earlier report, Microsoft may not be considering a bid on cloud sales and customer service software giant Salesforce.com. Microsoft currently considers Salesforce too pricey, but the company may be open to a deal in the long term, according to a late-day May 7 Reuters report citing two unnamed sources familiar with the […]

When it comes to Web browsing on Windows 10, Microsoft’s developers are cleaning house. Among the relics of the soon-to-be past is ActiveX. Arguing that the new Microsoft Edge browser is more than a reskinned version of Internet Explorer (IE), Edge program managers Charles Morris and Jacob Rossi took to the company’s new Microsoft Edge […]

Early Windows Server 2016 testers can now natively manage and monitor the storage performance of their virtual machines with a new feature called Storage Quality of Service (QoS). Part of this week’s release of Windows Server 2016 Technical Preview 2, Storage QoS enables administrators to provide virtual machines, and their applications by extension, predictable performance […]

Microsoft may be ready to dig deep into its war chest to snap up San Francisco-based Salesforce.com, the market-leading cloud customer relationship management (CRM) software provider. The Redmond, Wash.-based technology giant is mulling a bid for Salesforce, according to a May 5 report in Bloomberg, potentially setting the stage for a blockbuster acquisition. Salesforce currently […]

Microsoft Office and Dynamics CRM Online offer users a more seamless way of accessing customer information after this week’s release of the Spring 2015 update for the cloud-based customer relationship management (CRM) software platform. Given the overlap of Office and Dynamics CRM users, Microsoft is in the midst an ongoing quest to integrate the platforms. […]

After extending its embrace to rival mobile platforms, Microsoft is now looking to tighten security in its ecosystem of mobile device management (MDM) solutions. During this week’s Ignite conference in Chicago, Microsoft’s inaugural event for IT professionals, the company’s mobile device management announcements were “very focused on cyber-security in particular,” Andrew Conway, senior director of […]