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Microsoft this week described a major update to the storage infrastructure for its Hotmail web-based email service, in which it will be moving away from RAID and to a scheme called JBOD, or "just a bunch of disks." ...
When reading the list of speakers for the Fall 2011 Exchange Connections conference, I was impressed to see Jeffrey Snover on the list of speakers who will deliver a keynote session. For those who are unfamiliar with his name, Jeffrey is the...
I sometimes wonder about the sanity of Gartner analysts. That thought wandered into my mind this morning when I read the headline in the U.K. Daily Telegraph newspaper proclaiming “Gmail ready to tackle Microsoft Outlook”. Apparently some of the...
I’ve been reading a copy of the free ebook “Microsoft Office 365: Connect and collaborate virtually anywhere, anytime” by Katherine Murray. The book was released in mid August and is the first Office 365 title from Microsoft Press. Normally a...
Details are slowly emerging about the DNS problem that caused the massive cloud failure for all of Microsoft’s hosted services on September 8. According to a statement given to Arstechnica.com, Microsoft said...
Over the half-decade period spanning 2002 to 2007, Microsoft attempted to dramatically jumpstart its Windows efforts with the ill-fated Longhorn project, which resulted in the poorly-received Windows Vista. But Vista wasn't the only major product...
In past articles in this ongoing series, I've alluded to SharePoint's evolution over the years to become the Swiss Army Knife, of sorts, of Microsoft's platforms. In its most recent guises, in the on-premise SharePoint 2010 as well as Office 365's...
The fact that cloud services depend on a lot of infrastructure that has evolved gradually as the Internet expanded provoked more headaches for Office 365 this week. Whereas the August 17 outage for North American users of Exchange Online was due...
Despite the recent hype around the launch of Office 365, Microsoft did not invent hosted Exchange. In fact, well before Microsoft got into the hosting business, other companies around the world were using versions as old as Exchange 5.5 to deliver...
A day after Microsoft had poked fun at its major competitor for Office 365 with a note called “Whither art thou, Google Apps offline” that chided the Mountain View company for failing to deliver on its promise to replace the previous offline mode...