Derek Schauland

Product Reviews SMEStorage provides a convenient, common place for users to park cloud data stored with multiple vendors. Everything seems to be headed to the cloud. For e-mail, calendar, social applications and, most recently, storage, the cloud is quickly becoming the go-to landing spot for computing for businesses and consumers alike. Of course, the list of storage providers in the cloud is much like the listings for pizza in the Yellow Pages; every time you look, there are more of them.

Product Reviews The updated security management service features impressive remote-management and deployment capabilities. Back in March, Microsoft released a new systems-management service called Windows Intune. The service allows customers to enroll their PCs and manage things like Windows updates, antivirus and anti-malware applications on dispersed computers using the Internet.

Product Reviews Active Directory Change Reporter 7.0 offers some useful features for Active Directory admins who want to get a better handle on what's going on in their environments. Among the many challenges of managing an Active Directory environment is making sure unauthorized changes or errors aren't introduced into the repository. AD doesn't have the most robust auditing and management capabilities.