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Amazon Cites Badly Executed Upgrade as Cause for Cloud Outage

A detailed postmortem issued by Amazon Web Services on Friday details the cause of last week's massive cloud outage, which crippled numerous Amazon customers for several days and, for some users, resulted in permanent data loss.

Dell's Boomi Updates 'Integration Cloud' with AtomSphere Spring 11 Release

Dell has announced that its recently acquired Boomi software will now include Java Message Service (JMS) connectors for middleware products from IBM, WebMethods, Tibco and Progress Software.

Google Apps for Business No Longer Free for Some

Starting in May, organizations with 10 or more users who want to use Google Apps for Business will need to pay subscription fees.

Cloud Provider Savvis Acquired by CenturyLink

Telecommunications giant CenturyLink today said it has agreed to acquire Savvis, a provider of managed hosting and cloud services, for $2.5 billion.

Hyper-V SP1 Needed To Create VMs on Intel vPro Machines

Windows Server 2008 R2, Hyper-V Server 2008 R2 can only perform server virtualization using Intel's Core vPro processors if SP1 is applied.

Getting Started with vCenter Operations

Your vSphere infrastructure needs monitoring, and that's where vCenter Operations comes in. Let's take a look at how to work with it.

Amazon Cloud Services Restored

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has restored service for a majority of its customers after an outage that began on Thursday left numerous organizations down for more than three days.

Google Touts Its Cloud Security, Energy-Saving Measures

On Friday, Google gave a rare look into how it locks down one of the datacenters in its global network.

The Network Automation Imperative

When your virtualization or cloud project sputters in efficiency, network automation can get that project some new life.

Amazon Cloud Service Outage Cripples Multiple Web Sites

Latency and connectivity issues affecting Amazon Web Services' Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) and Rational Database Services is thought to be the cause of manyWeb site outages.

Every Admin Should ThinApp the vSphere Client

VMware Lab's ThinApped vSphere client allows running the client without installing it.

Public Beta of Microsoft Office 365 Released

Microsoft today released the public beta of Office 365, the company's widely anticipated cloud-based productivity suite.

5 Ways to Measure Virtualization Efficiency

The typical IT gauges don't translate well for measuring virtualization efficiencies. You'll need to look at it from a different angle.

Hyper-V Server 2008 R2 SP1 Released

Keys to Microsoft's first service pack for Hyper-V Server 2008 R2 are dynamic memory and RemoteFX.

Microsoft Brings Dynamics ERP Line to Cloud

Microsoft announced on Monday that it plans to deliver its entire Dynamics portfolio as a cloud-based service.

Microsoft Unveils IE 10 Preview, Azure Products at MIX 11

Microsoft has debuted the first platform preview of IE 10, just four weeks after the final version of Internet Explorer 9 (IE 9) was released.

Cloud Foundry Springs Forth as First 'Open' PaaS

VMware today announced the debut of Cloud Foundry, which the company is touting as the first "open platform as a service," or PaaS.

What Virtualization Vendors Have on Storage Tiering

What VMware, Dell, NetApp and DataCore are doing to add support for tiered storage in their offerings.

Dell To Invest $1 Billion in Cloud

Dell today said it is investing $1 billion in cloud computing under a two-year plan to build out datacenters that will let customers subscribe to virtualized compute infrastructure and storage.

IBM Extends Cloud Portfolio with SmartCloud, Workload Deployer

IBM raised its cloud presence on Thursday with the launch of two new services: SmartCloud, which is designed to enhance IBM's public cloud infrastructure services, and Workload Deployer, the company's new solution for building private clouds.

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