Here are five random items that are worthy of comment.
A new microsite from CA aims to help its partners sell the CA Virtual portfolio and its customers to overcome "virtual stall."
Amazon Web Services today launched a new offering aimed at easing the development and deployment of apps to the cloud.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 02/25/2011
Flings, SDKs, open source stuff ... there's more to free tools than ESXi and the vSphere client.
Cisco is calling it quits on its cloud-based e-mail service that has been available for testing for the past year.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 02/24/2011
Over the past few weeks, Microsoft has signed contracts with 14 state and local government entities for its cloud computing services.
- By Paul McCloskey
- 02/24/2011
Last week, Oracle rolled out enhancements to its Sun Fire x86 product, bolstering the company's line of enterprise-class rackmount and blade servers for private cloud and highly virtualized deployments.
Opalis 6.3 can now manage clients through System Center Client Management Suite or Enterprise Client Access License.
With VMware vSphere 4.1 update 1 now generally available, what do you need to know about it and how do you upgrade to it? Let's find out.
CA Technologies last week updated its ERwin modeling tool with an eye toward broadening its use beyond database developers.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 02/14/2011
Read the fine print to understand Hyper-V licensing, which comes with some caveats.
- By Greg Shields
- 02/14/2011
A Microsoft official briefly noted on Thursday that Microsoft is planning two new options for IT organizations using Windows 7 -- but the catch is that Software Assurance (SA) licensing needs to be in place.
Microsoft filed a motion with a Washington State Superior Court on Thursday that accuses Matt Miszewski, former market development manager for Microsoft's government group, of stealing 600 MB of documents the company considered confidential when taking a new position at Salesforce.com.
Managers are asking the tough questions about public and private clouds and it boils down to one thing: trust.
- By Manny Vellon
- 02/10/2011
Microsoft Wednesday released Service Pack 1 for Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 to its equipment manufacturing partners.
Two entries in this month's security update, released Tuesday, blocks Windows 7 users from connecting to VMware's View Connection Servers, according to a VMware security bulletin.
In a move key to bridging public and private clouds based on its virtual machines, VMware this week said it will release software that ties internal vSphere VMs to service providers' cloud platforms.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 02/09/2011
Microsoft outlined desktop virtualization tips late last week that IT pros and developers can use to test the compatibility of their Web sites on a single PC.
A college in Vermont is significantly reducing the number of its physical servers by going virtual. The payoff? Energy efficiency, cost savings, and a second data center just for disaster recovery.
- By Bridget McCrea
- 02/07/2011
So far, so good: $13M saved, 80% ROI