According to a Bloomberg article, Microsoft plans to eliminate the e-mail hosting cost for some BlackBerry customers, and may also be on the brink of a cloud storage deal with BlackBerry maker Research In Motion (RIM)
Target turns to Microsoft's hypervisor technology to reduce physical servers and save on power and maintenance costs among its 1,755 U.S. stores.
The second beta of Microsoft's rapid business application development tool, Visual Studio LightSwitch, was made available for download this week.
- By Michael Desmond
- 03/17/2011
There's browsing the Web, and then there's kinda browsing the Web with vSphere. Here's a tool that removes the "kinda" part.
At Monday's annual analyst meeting, HP CEO Leo Apotheker announced that Hewlett-Packard Co. plans to launch a public cloud service.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 03/15/2011
The Apple iPad got a major enterprise nod this week from virtualization giant VMware Inc.
- By Scott Bekker
- 03/14/2011
Customers who use Microsoft's Desktop Optimization Pack can now download the latest version that includes updated application virtualization and desktop virtualization tools.
San Francisco-based Wavemaker, provider of a graphical development platform for Java-based Web and cloud applications, based on the Spring development enviornment, will be acquired by VMware, the company announced recently.
- By John K. Waters
- 03/09/2011
In this new column, Taneja Group lead virtualization analyst Dave Bartoletti will offer his personal insights and findings on all trends virtual and cloud.
- By Dave Bartoletti
- 03/07/2011
Read the forgetful manual. It'll save you some pain later on when troubleshooting vSphere.
Salesforce.com has added support for native Facebook integration to Service Cloud, beefing up the app's social networking capabilities.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 03/03/2011
To extend its cloud services to Asia-Pacific customers, Amazon Web Services (AWS) on Wednesday announced the opening of a datacenter in Tokyo, Japan.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 03/02/2011
Microsoft's flagship Windows, Office and Exchange offerings may face renewed challenges in the stratospheric battle to come.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 03/01/2011
Rahul Bakshi of SunGard Availability Services doles out managed services.
Ellen Rubin's success with startups continues at CloudSwitch, a developer of a software appliance that enables companies to securely run applications in the cloud while remaining integrated with their datacenters.
The latest offering from RingCube creates a VDI client that can be customized for each user, but still enables pooled licenses, easy updates and centralized control of settings.
- By Logan Harbaugh
- 03/01/2011
The push to the cloud is putting heavy pressure on virtualized datacenters to change with the dynamic times.
Microsoft's flagship Windows, Office and Exchange offerings may face renewed challenges in the stratospheric battle to come.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 03/01/2011
The best way to learn anything is by doing it. You want to learn more about VMware vSphere? Build a lab.
In case you haven't heard, the messaging at VMware nowadays revolves around cloud computing.
- By Rick Vanover
- 03/01/2011