Microsoft isn't impressing members of the OpenStack community with its attempts to ensure the interoperability of its Hyper-V hypervisor with the OpenStack open source cloud project.
Microsoft spotlighted the Windows Azure SDK for Node.js, which the company launched in December, with a demo at the recent Node Summit in San Francisco.
- By John K. Waters
- 01/31/2012
Microsoft has released a free trial app of a service designed to help SQL Azure users monitor the security of databases housed in Microsoft's cloud.
VMware recently released results of its 2011 Q4 financials and the news was exceptionally positive.
- By Michael Domingo
- 01/25/2012
Deepening its private-cloud partnership with Microsoft (and VMware), Dell announced a new hardware product that can host up to 200 virtual machines.
New version boast performance improvements and easier scalability.
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is looking to push the boundaries of performance and scalability of its public cloud infrastructure.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 01/18/2012
Details of a new file system for Windows Server 8 Was outlined by Microsoft yesterday.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 01/17/2012
Google this week inked its biggest cloud deal yet with Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria (BBVA), the second-largest banking institution in Spain.
An hour-long webinar on Jan. 17 titled "Transforming IT With Microsoft Private Cloud" will give top Microsoft executives the chance to reveal more about its private cloud plans.
A report published Monday cited several sources who said customers of Microsoft's Windows Azure cloud platform will be able to run Linux servers on the service starting this spring.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 01/03/2012
In an e-mail to staff and students on Wednesday, the University of California, Berkeley announced that it is switching to Google Apps for Education for cloud-based e-mail and calendaring, not Microsoft's Office 365 suite.
In an surprising move, Microsoft on Tuesday made its consumer-oriented SkyDrive cloud storage service available for Apple mobile devices, as well its own Windows Phone devices.
Microsoft issued the fourth-quarter service release of its Windows Azure cloud computing platform on Saturday, with an emphasis on open source interoperability improvements, expanded database capacity and "simplified pricing."
Oracle this week announced the forthcoming availability of Oracle WebLogic Server 12c, a major update of the company's WebLogic app server and the cornerstone of its Cloud Application Foundation.
- By John K. Waters
- 12/01/2011
Two of Microsoft's cloud-based services, Office 365 and SkyDrive, underwent significant updates on Tuesday.
Joyent has signed on to VMware's Community Leads program to lend its Node.js expertise to that company's Cloud Foundry project.
- By John K. Waters
- 11/17/2011
Fujitsu this week launched a hybrid cloud offering that lets enterprises tie apps running on-premises to those running on Microsoft's Windows Azure service.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 11/17/2011
An executive within Microsoft's Server and Tools division gave investors some perspective on Microsoft's cloud vision on Monday, at the CLSA Asia USA Forum in San Francisco.
Consumer tech retailing giant Best Buy has agreed to buy IT outsourcer and cloud provider mindSHIFT Technologies for $167 million.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 11/07/2011