AUSTIN, Texas – July 20, 2010 – Spiceworks™, Inc. today announced the beta release of an updated version of its free IT management software, which includes new capabilities that allow users to automatically backup, compare and restore configurations for networked devices. In addition, the upgraded version of Spiceworks offers a newly tuned network map that enables IT managers to track bandwidth information for individual end points, such as desktops and laptops. Together these features are designed to help the 1 million IT pros that use Spiceworks to automate more of their complex network management tasks for free. The new features are available now in the beta version of Spiceworks 5.0, which can be downloaded at http://www.spiceworks.com/5.0. "Small and medium businesses looking to add network configuration management have traditionally had two options – buy expensive software or rely on a free TFTP server and a lot of time consuming and error prone manual processes," said Scott Abel, co-founder and CEO of Spiceworks. "This latest release of Spiceworks gives them another choice by delivering comprehensive automated network configuration management capabilities for free. As a result, IT managers can get more done with less effort, while saving money for important things like the hardware and software their companies need." Additional details on the new network management capabilities available in this latest release of Spiceworks include: Automated Network Configuration Monitoring and Backup – enables users to automatically scan and backup configurations for network devices, such as switches, routers and hubs. Scans are updated at regular intervals and as new equipment is added to the network. Network Configuration Change Management and Restore – users are alerted to changes to network configurations. Device settings and proper configurations can be remotely restored on network devices using the built-in TFTP server. Network Map for Endpoints – the built-in network
WASHINGTON - July 12, 2010 - Today at the Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference, Microsoft Corp. showcased new capabilities that are coming in its next-generation customer relationship management (CRM) solution. The highly anticipated Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 — formerly code-named "CRM5" — will be publicly available as a beta release in September 2010, beginning with Microsoft Dynamics CRM Online. Microsoft also announced that Microsoft Dynamics CRM Online will be available in 40 markets and 41 languages by the end of 2010. In addition to 32 markets announced in April, the following eight markets are slated to be covered by Microsoft Dynamics CRM Online: Australia, Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Chile, Cyprus, Peru, and Trinidad and Tobago. Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 will deliver "The Power of Productivity" through familiar, intelligent and connected experiences for people inside and outside an organization. This release will also enable partners, including independent software vendors, global system integrators and value-added resellers, to quickly create, package and distribute Microsoft Dynamics CRM extensions and custom solutions. To streamline solution discovery and distribution, Microsoft will be launching Microsoft Dynamics Marketplace in September 2010. This new online catalog will provide an easy way for partners to market and distribute solutions to Microsoft Dynamics customers. The marketplace will allow customers to quickly search, discover and apply industry-specific applications and solution extensions from Microsoft and its partners to help them accelerate and extend their CRM and ERP implementations. Microsoft Dynamics Marketplace will be integrated within Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011, allowing customers to search for applications directly from within their CRM solution. "We are excited to get the new release of Microsoft Dynamics CRM. The new features will give us even more power and flexibility to create and easily customize CRM solutions to mee
PALO ALTO, Calif., July 12, 2010 - HP and Microsoft today announced their intention to work together on a Microsoft Windows Azure platform appliance that will enable large enterprise customers to confidently and rapidly adopt cloud-based applications as businesses needs change and grow. The companies will work together to deliver a complete hardware, software, services and sourcing solution that will accelerate customers' transition to the Windows Azure platform. Customers will be able to manage the appliance with HP Converged Infrastructure on-premises or choose HP data center hosting services. Enterprise customers adopting cloud services need a comprehensive approach, including application modernization support, an optimized infrastructure platform as well as flexible sourcing options. With the new Windows Azure platform appliance, HP and Microsoft will help customers rapidly scale applications, deliver new online services and migrate Windows and .NET-based applications to the cloud. This latest collaboration extends the $250 million Infrastructure-to-Application initiatives HP and Microsoft announced in January and will result in HP delivering: Data center hosting services – HP Enterprise Services will combine deep systems management expertise, standardized processes and world-class secure data centers to manage the Windows Azure platform appliances for HP customers. HP and Microsoft plan to release a limited production Windows Azure platform appliance for deployment in HP data centers by the end of the year. Converged Infrastructure for Windows Azure – HP's current position as a primary infrastructure provider for the Windows Azure platform, coupled with HP and Microsoft's ongoing efforts to optimize Microsoft applications for HP's Converged Infrastructure through extensive joint engineering and development, will allow HP to deliver an industry-leading cloud deployment experience for its customers. The Converged Infrastructure for the Windows Azure platform appl
Microsoft Forefront Threat Management Gateway (TMG) 2010 Service Pack 1 (SP1) introduces new features and functionality to Forefront TMG 2010 Standard and Enterprise Editions. Overview The service pack includes the following new features and feature improvements:New ReportsThe new User Activity report displays the sites and site categories accessed by any user.All Forefront TMG reports have a new look and feel.Enhancements to URL FilteringYou can now allow users to override the access restriction on sites blocked by URL filtering. This allows for a more flexible web access policy, in that users can decide for themselves whether to access a blocked site. This is especially useful for websites that have been incorrectly categorized.You can now override the categorization of a URL on the enterprise level; the override is then effective for each enterprise-joined array.Denial notification pages can now be customized for your organization's needs.Enhanced Branch Office Support Collocation of Forefront TMG and a domain controller on the same server, which can help reduce the total cost of ownership at branch offices.When installed on a computer running Windows Server 2008 R2, SP1 simplifies the deployment of BranchCache at the branch office, using Forefront TMG as the Hosted Cache server. Support for publishing SharePoint 2010Forefront TMG SP1 supports secure publishing of SharePoint 2010. More info at product page link: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=f0fd5770-7360-4916-a5be-a88a0fd76c7c&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+MicrosoftDownloadCenter+(Microsoft+Download+Center)#tm
Today, Microsoft Corp. announced the worldwide availability of Microsoft Office 2010 and Microsoft SharePoint 2010, as well as Microsoft Visio 2010 and Microsoft Project 2010, for business customers worldwide. More than 90 million businesses can now deploy the 2010 suite of products, and customers can expect to see significant productivity gains and greater return on their software investments. "Office 2010 and SharePoint 2010 define the future of productivity," said Stephen Elop, president, Microsoft Business Division. "With the 2010 set of products, organizations will save, innovate and grow as their people benefit from working across the PC, phone and browser." A commissioned study conducted by Forrester Consulting, "The Total Economic Impact™ of Implementing Microsoft's Integrated Office Productivity Platform," May 2010,1 evaluated the 2010 releases of Office, SharePoint, Exchange and Office Communications Server 2007 R2. The Forrester TEI model employs four fundamental elements including costs, benefits to the entire organization, flexibility and risk. Based on the customer interviews, Forrester constructed a TEI framework for a composite organization and found the ROI to be 301 percent with a payback period of 7.4 months after deployment. The study also found that the composite organization would see more than $13 million in savings over a three-year period and on average, a savings of more than two work weeks per year. Microsoft's Office 2010 and SharePoint 2010 beta programs were the largest ever, with three times the number of participants compared with the Office 2007 beta program. As a result, 8.6 million people are already using Office 2010 and related products. In addition, more than 1,000 partners are already building solutions for the 2010 set of products. "We evaluated a number of competitive options in our recent technology assessment, and chose Microsoft Office 2010 as our new desktop productivity standard," said Mark Mastrianni, manager, globa