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.
- By Scott Bekker
- 06/06/2011
Exchange hoster Intermedia has been acquired by private equity firm Oak Hill Partners for an undisclosed amount.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 05/26/2011
VMHA via vSphere works most of the time, but sometimes you'll need to get at those scripts to fix something.
Developer of Java/.NET interoperability solutions now supporting interop in the cloud.
- By John K. Waters
- 05/25/2011
Storage visibility is essential for managing virtual infrastructure performance
- By Dave Bartoletti
- 05/24/2011
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.
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.
I haven't found a public cloud provider yet that allows me to run a nested ESXi server as a virtual machine.
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.
- By Kathleen Richards
- 05/17/2011
Hosting solutions providers able to manage various cloud infrastructures from Hyper-V.
- By Michael Domingo
- 05/16/2011
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.
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.
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.
Microsoft's Business Productivity Online Services (BPOS) experienced multiple outages this week, the company admitted on Thursday.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 05/13/2011
Google on Wednesday announced "Chromebooks," the upcoming line of notebook computers that will run the company's Chrome operating system.
Six CTOs tell us what they think is keeping virtualization and cloud computing from proliferating, and offer solutions to get past those barriers.
Microsoft on Tuesday announced it has agreed to acquire Skype for $8.5 billion, making it the largest acquisition in Microsoft's history.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 05/10/2011
The emerging class of performance management solutions for high-performance virtualization.
- By Dave Bartoletti
- 05/06/2011
According to a recent survey by the Ponemon Institute, security is not a top priority for most cloud computing vendors and customers.
- By Kathleen Hickey
- 05/06/2011
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).
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 05/04/2011