John Fontana

Senior Editor, Infrastructure

 

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Recent articles by Fontana

Alliance to promote Windows-managed Macs in enterprise
Jul. 02, 2008
A group of five vendors has formed an alliance to help push Macintosh desktops into managed Windows environments on corporate networks.

Microsoft SharePoint popularity comes with issues
Jul. 01, 2008
Microsoft's SharePoint Server 2007 may be taking off in the enterprise, but the software doesn't come without holes, warts and a variety of other issues that need to be addressed in any corporate deployment.

How social networking saved New Orleans
Jun. 27, 2008
If there is any doubt to the power of social media, social networking and social software, then nonbelievers may need to Think New Orleans. In a powerful presentati

Risk now the target with identity management
Jun. 26, 2008
Identity management is evolving to include a closer recognition of risk and how to manage it rather than trying to eliminate it using technology, according to the head of the Burton Group consulting firm.

Microsoft ships Hyper-V
Jun. 26, 2008
Microsoft Thursday released its Hyper-V virtualization server, which has been nearly five year in the making and is a major play in the company's march toward services-based computing.

Sun upgrades Identity Manager software
Jun. 24, 2008
Sun has released the next version of its provisioning software and deeply integrated it with role management tools as it continues to push policy-based identity management.

Windows XP retirement a 'non-issue' for corporate customers
Jun. 24, 2008
In a week's time, Windows XP will no longer be available in most retail outlets, but corporate users need not fret because they can still get the Microsoft operating system and, until 2014, the security patches to fix ...

Bill and me: My interview with Bill Gates
Jun. 24, 2008
So in May 2000 Gates and I sat down for 40 minutes in Las Vegas to talk. This was the first time I had met him personally after covering the company, and requesting an audience, for some four years. It was a time when ...

Microsoft VP confirms Windows 7 ship date: January 2010
Jun. 24, 2008
Microsoft will ship Windows 7 sometime in or near Jan. 2010, according to a letter company senior vice president Bill Veghte sent to Microsoft customers Tuesday.

Hosted identity service breaks out
Jun. 26, 2008
Hosted identity service breaks out Start-up Symplified has come out of stealth with identity service-offering By John Fontana , Network World , 06/26/2008 Click Here Share/Email Comment Print SAN DIEGO -- Start ...

Antitrust regulators scrutinizing Windows 7, IE 8
Jun. 20, 2008
Antitrust regulators are evaluating the forthcoming Windows 7 and Internet Explorer 8 as part of ongoing activities to ensure Microsoft is in compliance with the final judgment in two landmark antitrust cases that ...

Bill Gates impersonator also winding down his career
Jun. 19, 2008
Steve Sires has been impersonating Bill Gates for a decade now, and following him into retirement might not be any different.

Microsoft reissues patch, encourages XP SP2, SP3 re-installs
Jun. 19, 2008
Microsoft Thursday blamed human error for having to reissue a patch originally released last week to close a critical flaw in Windows and encouraged users of Windows XP SP2 and SP3 to install it promptly.

Microsoft releases near-final beta of HPC Server 2008
Jun. 18, 2008
Microsoft Wednesday said it plans to release at the end of the month another beta of its Windows HPC Server 2008 and that the final version will ship by year-end.

Firefox 3.0 released as browser climbs the charts
Jun. 18, 2008
Firefox 3.0 went live Tuesday to big fanfare -- and an early snag with Mozilla's servers -- while behind the scenes the open source browser continues to claw its way up the market-share charts.

Will Ozzie era at Microsoft signal a revolution?
Jun. 17, 2008
If Bill Gates leaving Microsoft is the end of an era, then Ray Ozzie's ascension is the beginning of a revolution designed to transform the company's business model as well as redefine corporate IT infrastructures and ...

Novell patches Suse Linux kernel for VMware efficiency
Jun. 16, 2008
Novell Monday released updates to its Suse Linux kernel designed to make the operating system more efficient when running on top of VMware environments.

Windows group-management tools on tap
Jun. 12, 2008
Group management vendor Imanami this week unveiled GroupID 5, a tool for managing distribution and security groups in Windows.

Microsoft touts IE 8 features for IT
Jun. 12, 2008
Microsoft Wednesday said it would ship the next beta of Internet Explorer 8 in August and detailed a number of new features to help ease companies' deployment and management of the browser.

Double-Take adding Hyper-V support to replication/failover tools
Jun. 11, 2008
Data replication and failover vendor Double-Take Software Tuesday unveiled a lineup of products to support the forthcoming Microsoft Hyper-V virtualization environment.

NetPro upgrades management tools at Microsoft TechEd
Jun. 11, 2008
NetPro Tuesday upgraded a trio of its tools focusing on new features for Windows access management, auditing, logging and compliance, and support for non-Windows platforms.

Cemaphore links Gmail and Outlook, previews beta at Microsoft TechEd
Jun. 11, 2008
Cemaphore Systems Tuesday said it would ship this month the next beta for its tool that synchronizes Outlook data with Gmail and lets users straddle both a locally deployed Microsoft Exchange Server and Google's online ...

Microsoft releases first public beta of identity management server
Jun. 10, 2008
Microsoft Tuesday filled in the blanks on its delayed identity management scorecard by releasing the first public beta of Identity Lifecycle Manager 2.0.

Bill Gates: The video tribute
Jun. 10, 2008
Microsoft leader known to poke fun at himself.

Gates legacy filled with good, bad and ugly
Jun. 10, 2008
Microsoft chairman Bill Gates formally entered the computer business in 1975 as a gangly geek and later this month will semi-exit as an industry luminary leaving behind a billion-dollar juggernaut and a legacy of ...