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
Hewlett-Packard Co. launches portfolio of private cloud services, hardware and software and announces plans to jump into public cloud hosting.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 01/27/2011
Add transactional e-mail hosting and distribution to the list of services offered by Amazon Web Services.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 01/25/2011
Amazon Web Services this week took a significant step forward in making it easier for developers to deploy its apps to the company's widely used cloud services.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 01/20/2011
The cloud is the current Next Big Thing in computing, and the Next Big Thing in attacks could be a new breed of economic denial-of-service attacks intended to use up resources and drive up the cost of cloud computing, warns a senior security researcher at Adobe Systems.
- By William Jackson
- 01/20/2011
In its bid to take on Salesforce.com and Oracle in the hotly contested market for CRM software-as-a-service (SaaS), Microsoft Monday launched its Dynamics CRM 2011 Online.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 01/18/2011
Rackspace Hosting has turned to Akamai Technologies to provide Web acceleration and its content delivery network (CDN) to Rackspace's cloud and hosted services customers.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 01/13/2011