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Amazon Launches Bulk E-mail Service

Add transactional e-mail hosting and distribution to the list of services offered by Amazon Web Services.

Amazon Web Services Reaches Out To Developers

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.

Black Hat: Will New Breed of DOS Attacks Make Cloud Unaffordable?

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.

Microsoft Guns for Salesforce.com with Dynamics CRM 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.

Rackspace Taps Akamai for CDN

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.

Amazon Adds Cloud Support Plans

Amazon Web Services today said it has added two new support plans to its enterprise cloud services and lowered the cost of its existing two support offerings by 50 percent.

Google Gets Second Chance on Fed E-Mail Contract Won by Microsoft

The Interior Department can't award a noncompetitive contract to Microsoft, a federal judge has ruled. 

Spoon Stirs up Application Virtualization

Package makes it easy to run Windows applications from anywhere -- no installation required.

Andres Rodriguez Plays Corporate Judo with Your Data

Nasuni CEO Andres Rodriguez believes he can handle the large data problem by leveraging the endless capacity of the cloud.

The 2011 Readers Choice Awards and Ultimate Buyers Guide

Our readers rate products, and we reward them with the hands-down, most-informative, must-read print guide to virtualization and cloud products.

Storage Problems and Proposed Solutions

Storage presents a lot of problems. It's expensive, it accumulates in all kinds of places where you can't find it, it's a hassle to move from point A to point B and it isn't always compatible from one vendor to the next.

Garth Fort Talks Cloud, Virtualization

The Microsoft marketing meister describes a team effort in Redmond.

10 Cool Virtualization Vendors

Start the new year off with our helpful roadmap of the top vendors looking to make a splash in your enterprise in 2011.

Q&A: Bob Metcalfe, Inventor of Ethernet

Bob Metcalfe reflects on the great LAN wars.

Rackspace Acquires Cloudkick

Rackspace Hosting today said it has acquired Cloudkick, a two-year old startup that offers tools to manage multiple cloud services.

OpSource Adds Managed Cloud Service

Hosting provider OpSource Tuesday added a suite of managed offerings to its cloud services.

Rackspace Launches Managed Cloud Service

Rackspace Hosting is looking to make cloud computing appealing to a broader set of customers that might not have the resources or acumen to manage systems and apps in the cloud.

F5 Extends Storage to the Cloud

F5 Networks is readying software that will let enterprises extend their storage networks to public and private clouds.

USDA Buying Microsoft Cloud Services

The Agriculture Department is moving its e-mail, document-sharing, and other collaboration tools to Microsoft's cloud infrastructure to save money and improve efficiency, USDA officials said today.

Virtualization Enables Cloud Computing: 7 Top Transition Questions Answered

How will your systems make the transition? We offer answers to seven questions about cloud migration.

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