A Q&A with the tech chief on what keeps the company looking above the cloud.
A collaboration between Microsoft and Amazon would allow developers to test SQL Server 2012, previously code-named "Denali," in Amazon's Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2).
My list of features to help me narrow my buying decisions after the DR vendor has made its pitch.
Zend Technologies recently rolled out phpcloud.com, a platform and partner ecosystem aimed at facilitating the development and delivery of PHP-based Web apps.
- By John K. Waters
- 10/25/2011
Oracle announced today pans to purchase RightNow Technologies Inc. for $1.5 billion.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 10/24/2011
Cisco and Citrix Systems have formed an alliance that has them working together to deliver Citrix-supported Cisco hardware and devices to Cisco's customers
- By Michael Domingo
- 10/20/2011
The acquisition gives Citrix a foot in a crowded cloud storage segment competing with Dropbox, Apple and others.
- By Michael Domingo
- 10/20/2011
Verizon said it's working with VMware to offer phones that can make the transition from home to work without hiccups or headaches for IT.
- By Michael Domingo
- 10/20/2011
Not the same ol' "Free Tools" session; we cover new tools that have come out since VMworld.
Google's contract to provide cloud-based applications to the city of Los Angeles hit a snag this week, after the city expressed concerns over the security of Google's offerings.
"Wave 2," the name of the second generation of Microsoft's Windows Intune cloud-based PC management service, was released as scheduled on Monday.
IBM this week fleshed out its SmartCloud public and private cloud portfolio as it looks to capture what it is predicting will be a growing base of enterprise customers.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 10/14/2011
Socialcast is the "Facebook" for the internal communications crowd. And it's a VMware product.
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, 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 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.
- By John K. Waters
- 10/06/2011
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.
- By Dave Bartoletti
- 10/05/2011
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.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 10/04/2011
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.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 09/30/2011
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.