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.
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.
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.
- By Michael Domingo, Chris Paoli
- 09/09/2011
VMware and Cisco have debuted the new Virtual Extensible Local Area Network (VXLAN) architecture, which forms the basis of a scalable LAN for the cloud.
Microsoft Server and Tools President Satya Nadella said his focus is to make it easier for enterprises to adopt multiple Microsoft technologies that will provide a hybrid public/private cloud solution.
According to an announcement made today by Microsoft, Hyper-V hypervisor will be included in the company's next operating system.
Hewlett-Packard Co. announced on Wednesday that it is giving select beta testers early access to its forthcoming Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) portfolio.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 09/07/2011
The next version of Windows Intune, Microsoft's cloud service for systems management, will become generally available starting Oct. 17, the company announced Tuesday.
- By Scott Bekker
- 09/06/2011
Microsoft has released version 1.3.0 of the Windows Azure Toolkit for Windows Phone and version 1.2.1 of the Windows Azure Toolkit for iOS.
Trend Micro, SolarWinds, F5 demonstrate new and improved solutions around the VMware tool ecosystem
- By Michael Domingo
- 09/01/2011
The Bromium cofounder and former Citrix CTO views his public battles as an essential element in his strategy to bring technology to the people by making sure they understand it.
MokaFive Suite Release 3 BareMetal offers the unusual ability to update all workstations from a single image, while still allowing users to customize their systems.
- By Logan Harbaugh
- 09/01/2011
Jim Curry, general manager of Rackspace Cloud Builders, is having a good time giving the people what they want.
The VMware CIO runs internal projects and test-drives new products.
These virtualization vendors will be getting more than your attention in the coming months.
All three of the most popular virtualization hypervisors are available in free editions: Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2008 R2, VMware vSphere Hypervisor and Citrix XenServer.
The product receives an A for features, but only a C+ for ease of use.
ADCs serve a new generation of business applications, with specific benefits when implemented in virtualized and cloud-based environments.
- By Eric Beehler
- 09/01/2011
The company is charging full-speed into the cloud -- and showing it has what it takes to dominate an industry.
Dell Cloud takes VMware's vCloud Datacenter Services to its customers who want a piece of the cloud.
- By Michael Domingo
- 08/31/2011