TheMicrosoft Management Summit (MMS) 2011 is being held in Las Vegas this week, and Microsoft is expected to use the event to put the spotlight on some of the upgrades (and new additions) to its Microsoft System Center family of products...

Green computing used to be an idea that many CIOs and IT leaders paid little attention to, especially when computing power was cheap and energy supplies were abundant. Thing have changed dramatically over the last few years, thanks to skrocketing...

Although there is a fair amount of hype about the words "big data," it's also clear that there is value in scale and efficiencies of the information factories. Here's a look at some of the big numbers and trends in this area.

Store data, secure passwords, send large files, and other common networking tasks available in the cloud

Freshly-minted Nokia CEO Stephen Elop -- the former President of the Business Division at Microsoft -- today announced the outlines of a broad partnership between Nokia and his former employer that will see Windows Phone 7 become the only OS for...

Traditional business intelligence (BI) has several shortcomings that require IT to play a huge role in the creation and deployment of reports and other analytic applications. Often times, business users will work around IT by creating Excel...

UPDATE:Below is the final PPS prototype we built for the customer on top of PowerPivot...

For those of you who read my blog (including Mark's excellent content), you have probably noticed how I discuss alot of varied topics on DW/BI. Like most people, my blog is a reflection of personal day-to-day work life which necessitates me...

According to amust-read post over at ZDNET by Microsoft watcher Mary Jo Foley, Microsoft has provided hardware partners with information that Redmond hopes they'll use to blunt adoption of the iPad in the enterprise. Foley's post also has a photo...