Stories by Andy Patrizio

Wi-Fi is often difficult to use, which kills productivity on the road, and it costs businesses nearly $3 billion a year.

Dell EMC says converged systems are too rigid in their deployment options and has come up with an on-premises offering it calls Validated System for Virtualization.

XML was useful in its time, but it has been supplanted by faster, more flexible formats.

Good experiences are increasingly rare and LTE is a better option for many. So why bother with Wi-Fi?

Companies in heavily regulated industries say they can't embrace the cloud due to compliance. That's just an excuse.

Two recent reports confirm that your greatest security threat is your users, not outside hackers.

Amazon Web Services EC2 Dedicated Hosts are designed to give you an on-premises experience in the cloud – for good or bad.

The telecom giant is unloading its data centers to focus on its services business.

Moving SQL Server 2005 data will be the easy part compared to the app migrations.

Sometimes referred to as programmable infrastructure, IAC is a good way to safely embrace IT automation and get your ‘shadow IT’ under control, too.

Microsoft’s support for SQL Server 2005 ends in April and just like with Server 2003, you should take the end-of-life announcements from Microsoft seriously.

It's not just your boss or the government that's spying on you, it's also the devices and technologies you embrace.

The sleuths over at The Verge reported last week that Microsoft is looking for beta testers for the pre-release versions of Office for Android. Despite a slow holiday week, the news traveled pretty fast. If you have an Android tablet, you can sign up at the SharePoint website for recruiting testers.

Russian Microsoft leaker Wzor has resurfaced three months after going into hiding with new information on Windows 8.1 Update 2, as well as details on new security measures at Microsoft and Windows 9.

A survey by antivirus firm, Bitdefender, has found 18 per cent of small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) are still using Windows XP despite the end of support from Microsoft and the near-apocalyptic predictions that led up to its end of life.