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Microsoft To Release Office 365 on June 28

Microsoft is expected to release Office 365, the cloud-based successor to its Business Productivity Online Suite (BPOS) with added desktop productivity functionality, on June 28.

Private Equity Firm Acquires Hosted E-Mail Giant Intermedia

Exchange hoster Intermedia has been acquired by private equity firm Oak Hill Partners for an undisclosed amount.

VMware High Availability and the CLI, or What Is AAM?

VMHA via vSphere works most of the time, but sometimes you'll need to get at those scripts to fix something.

JNBridge's Interop Tools Now Supporting On-Premises, Cloud Interop

Developer of Java/.NET interoperability solutions now supporting interop in the cloud.

Virtual Infrastructure Performance Management: The Storage View

Storage visibility is essential for managing virtual infrastructure performance

San Francisco Picks Microsoft for Hosted E-Mail Solution

Adding to Microsoft's string of public-sector cloud deals, the city of San Francisco announced plans to migrate 60 departments and agencies to Exchange Online over the next 12 months.

Kemp Releases Hyper-V Load Balancer for Exchange 2010

At this week's Microsoft Tech-Ed conference in Atlanta, Kemp Technologies released its Virtual LoadMaster Exchange for Hyper-V, a load-balancer designed to work exclusively with Exchange 2010 and Microsoft's hypervisor.

WANTED: ESXi in the Public Cloud

I haven't found a public cloud provider yet that allows me to run a nested ESXi server as a virtual machine.

Microsoft Showcases Windows Azure Cloud and Devices at Tech-Ed

Microsoft officially kicked off its Tech-Ed North America conference on Monday with a keynote that focused, in part, on moving to the cloud and managing services and applications in hybrid environments and across multiple devices.

From Tech-Ed: Hyper-V Expands Interoperability with CentOS Support

Hosting solutions providers able to manage various cloud infrastructures from Hyper-V.

Source: PlayStation Network Hacked Using Amazon's Cloud Service

A report this morning from Bloomberg News points to hackers using Amazon's Elastic Computer Cloud as a staging area for the attack on Sony's PlayStation Network -- which led the service to be shut down for almost a month.

Tech-Ed 2011: Exchange 2010 Gets Enhanced Virtualization Hardware Support

Improvements to Exchange 2010 that will avoid supported scenarios when running the software in a virtualized environment was announced by Microsoft at Tech-Ed 2011, currently underway in Atlanta, Ga.

VMware Reaches Agreement To Buy Shavlik Technologies

Shavlik Technologies, a provider of security and management software for desktops and servers, will be acquired by virtualization and cloud provider VMware, the companies announced on Monday morning.

Outages Hit Microsoft's Web-Based Productivity Service

Microsoft's Business Productivity Online Services (BPOS) experienced multiple outages this week, the company admitted on Thursday.

Google Chrome OS-Based Notebooks Coming Next Month

Google on Wednesday announced "Chromebooks," the upcoming line of notebook computers that will run the company's Chrome operating system.

Virtualization Review Roundtable: 3 Major Obstacles to Proliferation of Virtualization, Cloud Computing

Six CTOs tell us what they think is keeping virtualization and cloud computing from proliferating, and offer solutions to get past those barriers.

Microsoft Reaches $8.5 Billion Deal for Skype

Microsoft on Tuesday announced it has agreed to acquire Skype for $8.5 billion, making it the largest acquisition in Microsoft's history.

The Rise of the Virtual Infrastructure Performance Manager

The emerging class of performance management solutions for high-performance virtualization.

Study: Security a Low Priority for Three-Quarters of Cloud Providers

According to a recent survey by the Ponemon Institute, security is not a top priority for most cloud computing vendors and customers.

Red Hat Fills Out Cloud Portfolio with PaaS, IaaS Offerings

Red Hat has bolstered its cloud offerings with the release of a Platform as a Service (PaaS) offering for developers and new software to enable Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS).

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