Consumer tech retailing giant Best Buy has agreed to buy IT outsourcer and cloud provider mindSHIFT Technologies for $167 million. 
                    
			            - By Jeffrey  Schwartz
- 11/07/2011
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    According to a report published Friday by The Wall Street Journal, Google has inked a deal with General Motors Corp. to move the automaker's 100,000 employees to the cloud-based Google Apps suite.
                    
			            - By Jeffrey  Schwartz
- 11/04/2011
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    To encourage U.S. government agencies to adopt cloud computing technologies, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has issued a "roadmap" draft for public comment. 
                    
			            - By Rutrell  Yasin
- 11/03/2011
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Do you have a demand for testing hardware to support new projects and updates? A virtual test lab could fit the bill. 
                    
			            - By Thomas  Vater, Andreas  Rynes
- 11/01/2011
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Maintaining control and security are essential when building out virtualized datacenters.   
                    
			            - By Eric  Beehler
- 11/01/2011
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Embotics combines all the bells and whistles in one slick, easy-to-use private cloud package.
                    
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    The Desktone Cloud system gives admins full control of virtualized desktops, even in the cloud.
                    
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    More and more x86 workloads are returning to the big box. It makes perfect sense, too, as it's the big box where the cloud had been conceived decades ago. 
                    
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Dell Compellent SAN delivers agility, ease of use to Scott County, Minn. and it could save them $60K/hour in the event of a disaster.
                    
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    You want a piece of Jon Toigo? Be my guest. 
                    
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    The variety of cloud security strategies leaves users with interesting and diverse choices.
                    
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    With the introduction of vSphere 5, VMware created the concept of vRAM pools and added this as a critical component of purchasing a vSphere license.
                    
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Shared storage is one of the main enablers of enterprise features in virtualization.
                    
			            - By Elias  Khnaser
- 11/01/2011
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Citrix Systems rolled out several new products on Wednesday during its Synergy partner conference in Barcelona.
                    
			            - By Kurt  Mackie, Jeffrey  Schwartz
- 10/27/2011
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    A Q&A with the tech chief on what keeps the company looking above the cloud. 
                    
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    A collaboration between Microsoft and Amazon would allow developers to test SQL Server 2012, previously code-named "Denali," in Amazon's Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2).
                    
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    My list of features to help me narrow my buying decisions after the DR vendor has made its pitch. 
                    
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Zend Technologies recently rolled out phpcloud.com, a platform and partner ecosystem aimed at facilitating the development and delivery of PHP-based Web apps.
                    
			            - By John K. Waters
- 10/25/2011
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Oracle announced today pans to purchase RightNow Technologies Inc. for $1.5 billion.
                    
			            - By Jeffrey  Schwartz
- 10/24/2011
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Cisco and Citrix Systems have formed an alliance that has them working together to deliver Citrix-supported Cisco hardware and devices to Cisco's customers
                    
			            - By Michael  Domingo
- 10/20/2011