A Microsoft program unveiled on Monday called "Cloud CRM for Less" would pay customers $150 per user seat for switching to Microsoft Dynamics CRM Online from competitors SAP, Salesforce.com and Oracle.
- By Scott Bekker
- 08/30/2011
vFabric Director to support open-source Postgres SQL database initially; it's available now at CloudFoundry.com.
- By Michael Domingo
- 08/30/2011
Microsoft revved up its cloud marketing message on Monday with the release of a whitepaper titled "Microsoft Private Cloud: A Comparative Look at Functionality, Benefits and Economics."
The company claims its Virsto for VDI plays very well with VMware's vSphere.
- By Michael Domingo
- 08/30/2011
Sungard provides what it calls the first cloud disaster recovery service of its kind for VMware VMs.
- By Michael Domingo
- 08/29/2011
Monitoring, reporting on public cloud services provided through partnership with Goliath Technologies.
- By Michael Domingo
- 08/29/2011
AppSense partners with Lakeside Software to help customers figure out how virtualization can impact computing environment.
- By Michael Domingo
- 08/29/2011
VMware's newest hypervisor upgrade officially released before the company's VMworld Conference taking place next week in Las Vegas.
- By Michael Domingo
- 08/26/2011
eXo's Cloud IDE development tool, which the company touts as the industry's only cloud-based integrated development environment (IDE), now supports VMware's Cloud Foundry Platform as a Service (PaaS).
- By John K. Waters
- 08/25/2011
VMware on Wednesday released the beta of Micro Cloud Foundry, a complete version of its Cloud Foundry Platform as a Service (PaaS) designed to run on developers' PCs or Macs.
- By John K. Waters
- 08/24/2011
China Standard Software Co. Ltd. (CS2C) signed a legal and interoperability deal with Microsoft today as part of a parnership deal with Linux server technology.
A U.S. patent application filed this month by Microsoft updates an earlier holding concerning streaming data for faster computer startups.
In a detailed post-mortem, which included an apology, Amazon Web Services is giving reasons for last week's massive cloud outage that hit its Dublin data center.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 08/18/2011
Hewlett-Packard made several major announcements on Thursday, foremost that it is considering the spinoff or sale of its PC division.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 08/18/2011
Many of Microsoft's cloud service offerings, including Office 365, CRM Online and SkyDrive, have experienced major outages today.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 08/17/2011
Despite persistent concerns about security, developers increasingly prefer cloud-based development tooling, according to a survey by Evans Data Corp.
- By Michael Desmond
- 08/17/2011
Amazon Web Services announced on Tuesday its new GovCloud service, which is geared solely at U.S. federal departments seeking a secure cloud solution that meets specific regulatory and compliance requirements.
Xsigo Systems lays claim to first fully virtualized infrastructure for cloud-optimized data centers.
F5 Networks has bought the intellectual property of Israel-based Crescendo Networks and will be hiring some of its engineering team.
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