I'd like to pass along these announcements (regarding case studies, events, and tools), courtesy of Mike Wons, another member of our team. Financial Services Firm Supports Growth Through Microsoft Infrastructure Optimization HSBC acquired...

I’m finally recovering from Tech Ready. Last week was incredibly busy, and I learned a lot about recently-released and upcoming products, especially those that have the potential to help our customers improve their branch banking infrastructure. All...

Tech-Ready (Microsoft's internal technical conference) opened today, and I spent most of the day digging into our workflow stack, in addition to getting some hands-on experience with System Center Data Protection Manager (DPM) 2006. I'll discuss DPM in...

Finextra reports that SQL injection attacks against banks are skyrocketing. I can't tell you how many times I've seen various data-driven sites fall over when I (innocently enough, I swear) enter text containing quotation marks. I wince every time...

For the inaugural entry of my new blog, I'd like to introduce myself and let you know what I'll be blogging about here. My name is Brian Jackson, and I am an Industry Technology Strategist on the Worldwide Financial Services team at Microsoft. This...