John Fontana

Senior Editor, Infrastructure

 

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Recent articles by Fontana

TriCipher launches hosted identity federation service
Oct. 03, 2008
Identity management vendor TriCipher this week rolled out a hosted service that lets companies pass-on the complexity of sharing identities with partners.

Microsoft updates desktop management tools
Oct. 03, 2008
MDOP 2008 R2 includes new application virtualization and asset management tools.

Microsoft will float cloud OS this month
Oct. 02, 2008
Microsoft at the end of the month will unveil its "Cloud OS," the secretive Ray Ozzie project that provides a virtual Windows operating system platform for the rapid development, deployment, and maintenance of Internet ...

Microsoft prepping preview of REST support, app server improvements
Oct. 01, 2008
Microsoft on Wednesday said it plans to significantly increase its support for REST as part of three technologies it will preview later this month that contribute to building a foundation for supporting Web 2.0 and ...

Sun goes commercial with OpenSSO
Sep. 30, 2008
Sun Tuesday released a commercial version of OpenSSO offering full support and indemnity as it works towards its promise to open source all its software.

Microsoft SharePoint gets search, file sharing features
Sep. 29, 2008
Data capture vendor Captaris and security software developer Epok have developed add-ons to Microsoft's SharePoint Server 2007 that let users search on document images and securely extend file creation and sharing ...

Start-up adds SSO to cloud integration platform
Sep. 29, 2008
Start-up Symplified on Monday said it would release in early October a single sign-on module for its identity integration platform designed to help companies securely connect their corporate infrastructure to cloud- ...

Microsoft amassing high-performance server software attack
Sep. 25, 2008
Microsoft has built a strategy around the planned early-November release of its high-performance computing server that it hopes will be the catalyst to deliver massive computing power for future applications.

Red Hat beats earning estimates in Q2
Sep. 25, 2008
Red Hat Wednesday slightly topped analysts estimates by posting revenue for the fiscal 2009 second quarter of $164.4 million.

Information Cards technology headed toward standardization
Sep. 24, 2008
Information Cards, the identity specification developed by Microsoft, is headed to a standards body that will work to ensure interoperability among implementations and adoption as a standard authentication method across ...

Microsoft confirms pre-beta Windows 7 for PDC attendees
Sep. 24, 2008
Microsoft Wednesday squelched speculation on when the public would get its hands on Windows 7 code by confirming that attendees at its Professional Developers Conference would receive a pre-beta version.

Windows 7: Seven developments you should know about
Sep. 23, 2008
One stone-cold fact about Windows 7 is that we need more stone-cold facts in order to understand the new operating system that is likely to arrive in early 2010.

Windows HPC set to take on Linux
Sep. 22, 2008
Microsoft Monday said it would ship Windows HPC Server 2008 on Nov. 1 with designs on challenging Linux for supplying high-performance computers and specifically taking aim at ailing Wall Street customers.

IBM set to roll Notes hosting service
Sep. 17, 2008
IBM said today that it has plans to crank up its first-ever Notes hosting service that will cater to companies with between 1,000 and 10,000 users.

One Google data center idea that really floats
Sep. 16, 2008
Google, which has been building out its data center inventory for the past few years, is literally floating its latest idea for the location of such facilities at the U.S. Patent Office.

Bluenog ties together open source CMS, BI, portal
Sep. 15, 2008
Bluenog Monday released an integrated bundle that pulls together open source content management, portal and business intelligence software and is aimed at mid-sized companies.

Quest grabs NetPro to strengthen Windows management wares
Sep. 12, 2008
Management vendor Quest Software Friday said it has acquired NetPro, a competitor that also offers tools to manage Microsoft infrastructure environments.

Microsoft sets virtualization story, but licensing may need review
Sep. 11, 2008
Microsoft last week fleshed out more of its virtualization story, outlining everything from management to migration but leaving out some licensing details it may have to revisit.

Microsoft-Novell partnership yields virtualization bundle
Sep. 11, 2008
Microsoft and Novell Thursday released a virtualization bundle that represents the pair's first fully supported joint product since their interoperability partnership was forged in 2006.

Microsoft patches will put IT on hunt for affected systems
Sep. 09, 2008
Microsoft Tuesday released four critical patches targeting vulnerabilities mostly in Windows-based server and client operating systems, including one that affected 42 versions of various Microsoft software products.

Microsoft patches affect scores of systems
Sep. 09, 2008
Microsoft Tuesday released four critical patches targeting vulnerabilities mostly in Windows-based server and client operating systems.

Microsoft says Virtual Machine Manager due by year-end
Sep. 08, 2008
Microsoft Monday said development of its virtualization management tool would be complete in 30 days and reiterated that it would ship sometime during the last three months of this year as promised.

Microsoft BizTalk gets surprise reprieve, new road map
Sep. 08, 2008
Microsoft Friday reversed course on the fate of BizTalk Server, renaming the next version and setting a roadmap that calls for a major releases of the middleware every two years.

Microsoft says Live Migration slated for 2010
Sep. 08, 2008
Microsoft Monday said the Live Migration feature for its hypervisor technology is slated for delivery with the next version of Windows Server, which is likely to be delivered in 2010.

Microsoft offers free Hyper-V stand-alone version
Sep. 08, 2008
Microsoft Monday pulled the $28 price tag from its stand-alone version of Hyper-V Server 2008 and said the software would be made available for free in the next 30 days.