George Amoils, Director, Soarsoft AfricaAs bandwidth has become increasingly affordable and available in South Africa, local businesses have begun to embrace cloud computing and all of the benefits it offers, particularly around access to technology at an affordable price. One of the latest cloud offerings, Microsoft Office 365, enables organisations However,…

Cisco Systems is extending the functionality of its Quad enterprise social networking (ESN) software through integration with Microsoft Office applications and with email clients, including Microsoft Outlook, the company is announcing on Tuesday. Cisco is also re-branding the ESN software, dropping its Quad name and calling it WebEx Social, as…

Salesforce.com is rolling out a number of upgrades to its Force.com platform in conjunction with the Summer ’12 update to the vendor’s cloud CRM (customer relationship management) software, focusing on areas such as mobile application development, database tooling and easier upgrades. The new mobile features include support for…

news The Federal Department of Immigration and Citizenship has revealed as part of documents associated with a major IT outsourcing initiative that it is midway through the process of migrating off its Lotus Notes/Domino email platform and onto Microsoft’s rival Outlook/Exchange system, as well as a number of other modernisation…

Francisco Jeronimo, IDC’s European Research Manager for Mobile Devices, has commented on the announcement of Microsoft’s Surface tablet. The Surface tablet – Microsoft is still not giving up on stylus input, although it’s changed a lot since my Toshiba Pocket PC. (Image credit: Getty Images via @daylife) Jeronimo noted that…

Motorists will travel in record numbers for the Independence Day holiday this year, encouraged by cheaper gasoline, travel group AAA said on Tuesday. Don’t miss these Travel stories Room with view and giant bedside clock Ghent, Belgium, has unusual rental built around the top of the clock tower of the…

OK, so it’s not exactly news that the Obama administration hasn’t done the best job in the world selling the Affordable Care Act to the American public. But now the Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism has some statistics to demonstrate just how sorry that job has been….

An unpatched critical security vulnerability, present in all supported releases of Microsoft Windows and all supported editions of Microsoft Office 2003 and Microsoft Office 2007, means that users’ computers can become infected simply by visiting a website with Internet Explorer, is being actively exploited by cybercriminals. Along with the usual slew of…

LONDON, June 19, 2012 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ –Mavenir Systems, leading innovator of converged IP Voice, Video and Messaging solutions for wireless carriers, today announced the launch of its new Mobile Cloud Suite (MCS) providing Voice, Video and Messaging capabilities for mobile operators to compete with over the top (OTT) services. Mobile Cloud…

We can use the standard Opsview agent to monitor a plethora of Microsoft Exchange 07/10 services "out of the box"; using the built in Windows performance monitors and service statuses. Pre-requisites This article assumes that the Opsview agent has been installed onto a Windows Server 200* server running Microsoft Exchange 2007/2010, Configuration