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Microsoft Details New Features in Upcoming SQL Azure Release

Microsoft outlined some of the new features coming in the next release of SQL Azure -- which the company said will arrive in Q4 2011 -- during Day 2 of the PASS Summit, taking place this week in Seattle.

Google Cloud SQL Launches in Limited Preview

Google Cloud SQL, which adds a MySQL database Web service to Google's cloud-based App Engine development stack, is now available in a free preview version, Google announced this week.

Oracle CEO Slams Cloud Rivals, Unveils Public Cloud Service

Oracle CEO Larry Ellison took the stage on Wednesday at the annual Oracle OpenWorld conference to unveil the Oracle Public Cloud, a Platform as a Service (PaaS) designed to run the company's Fusion Applications, which are now generally available.

Searching for Intelligent Storage for Virtual Workloads

There are no one-size-fits-all storage solutions, so I've come up with some basic questions to ask the vendors who will be trying to get your attention.

Apple Gives iCloud Availability Date on Heels of iPhone 4S Reveal

Apple said on Tuesday that its previously announced iCloud service will become available next week, though any news about the personal cloud service was overshadowed by the launch of a new iPhone that same day.

Private Clouds To Get OpenStack Distribution Through Piston Computing

In an announcement made online by Piston Computing this week, the company will start offering an operating system based on the open source OpenStack platform for private clouds.

Microsoft Reaching Out to OpenNebula with Windows Server Hyper-V

In another example of Microsoft's outreach to open source communities and projects, the company announced on Tuesday it is collaborating with team members of the OpenNebula project to add Windows Server Hyper-V support.

Engine Yard Cloud Extends Support to JRuby

Engine Yard, a provider of Platform as a Service (PaaS) for Ruby on Rails, announced this week it now supports JRuby applications on its cloud platform.

Amazon Launches $199 Kindle Fire Tablet with Cloud Ties

In an attempt to upend the tablet market, Web retailer Amazon.com launched its Kindle Fire tablet in New York on Wednesday.

Microsoft Using Cloud To Enable Single Sign-On in Windows 8

Windows Live will be a key element in Windows 8's roaming and single sign-on capabilities, Microsoft recently revealed.

Microsoft Cloud Exec Leaves Company for EA

Rajat Taneja, most recently the vice president of Microsoft's Commerce Division, is leaving Microsoft for game software publisher Electronic Arts (EA), where he will be CTO.

Microsoft Partners Already Implementing Hyper-V 3 Virtual Switch

Microsoft's new extensible virtual switch in Hyper-V 3.0 for Windows Server 8 has already been implemented by 5nine, Broadcom, Cisco, inMon and NEC, among others.

Amazon Web Services Gets FISMA Approval

Amazon Web Services has received approval from the General Services Administration (GSA) to provide cloud services to government agencies in compliance with the Federal Information Security Management Act (FISMA).

OpenStack Comes to Rackspace

Rackspace will be adding the open source cloud platform OpenStack over its entire network, according to a company announcement this week.

VMware Workstation 8, VMware Fusion 4 Released

VMware has released upgrades to two virtualization platforms, VMware Workstation 8 and VMware Fusion.

Microsoft Opens Up on 'Cloud-Optimized' Windows Server 8 at Build

During his Build conference keynote on Wednesday, Satya Nadella, president of Microsoft's Server and Tools Business, called Windows Server 8 "the most cloud-optimized OS" being developed by Microsoft.

Microsoft Talks Up Windows Azure Improvements at Build

Satya Nadella, president of Microsoft's Server and Tools Business, made the case for Windows Azure to independent software vendors (ISVs) during his Wednesday keynote at Build, as well as detailed some recent improvements to the cloud-based platform.

DNS Error Downs Several Microsoft Cloud Services

Microsoft has revealed that a DNS error resulted in an outage last Thursday of several Microsoft Live services, including SkyDrive, Hotmail, Office 365 and MSN.

System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2012 Now at RC Stage

SCVMM 2012 RC includes many new features for hypervisor creation/management, resource optimization and service lifecycle management. It's also on a new schedule for general availability in early 2012.

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