The product receives an A for features, but only a C+ for ease of use.
                    
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    ADCs serve a new generation of business applications, with specific benefits when implemented in virtualized and cloud-based environments.
                    
			            - By Eric  Beehler
- 09/01/2011
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    The company is charging full-speed into the cloud -- and showing it has what it takes to dominate an industry.
                    
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Dell Cloud takes VMware's vCloud Datacenter Services to its customers who want a piece of the cloud. 
                    
			            - By Michael  Domingo
- 08/31/2011
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    During his keynote at the annual Dreamforce conference taking place this week in San Francisco, Salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff left little doubt about the direction his company is taking: "We're were born cloud, and now we've been reborn social."
                    
			            - By John K. Waters
- 08/31/2011
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    VMTurbo upgrades its virtualization management appliance with new application performance monitoring system.
                    
			            - By Michael  Domingo
- 08/31/2011
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Storage company gets its virtualized storage solution certifed to work with VMware's latest product releases.
                    
			            - By Michael  Domingo
- 08/31/2011
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    A Microsoft program unveiled on Monday called "Cloud CRM for Less" would pay customers $150 per user seat for switching to Microsoft Dynamics CRM Online from competitors SAP, Salesforce.com and Oracle.
                    
			            - By Scott  Bekker
- 08/30/2011
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    vFabric Director to support open-source Postgres SQL database initially; it's available now at CloudFoundry.com. 
                    
			            - By Michael  Domingo
- 08/30/2011
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Microsoft revved up its cloud marketing message on Monday with the release of a whitepaper titled "Microsoft Private Cloud: A Comparative Look at Functionality, Benefits and Economics."
                    
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    The company claims its Virsto for VDI plays very well with VMware's vSphere.
                    
			            - By Michael  Domingo
- 08/30/2011
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Sungard provides what it calls the first cloud disaster recovery service of its kind for VMware VMs.
                    
			            - By Michael  Domingo
- 08/29/2011
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Monitoring, reporting on public cloud services provided through partnership with Goliath Technologies.
                    
			            - By Michael  Domingo
- 08/29/2011
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    AppSense partners with Lakeside Software to help customers figure out how virtualization can impact computing environment. 
                    
			            - By Michael  Domingo
- 08/29/2011
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    VMware's newest hypervisor upgrade officially released before the company's VMworld Conference taking place next week in Las Vegas.
                    
			            - By Michael  Domingo
- 08/26/2011
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    eXo's Cloud IDE development tool, which the company touts as the industry's only cloud-based integrated development environment (IDE), now supports VMware's Cloud Foundry Platform as a Service (PaaS).
                    
			            - By John K. Waters
- 08/25/2011
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    VMware on Wednesday released the beta of Micro Cloud Foundry, a complete version of its Cloud Foundry Platform as a Service (PaaS) designed to run on developers' PCs or Macs.
                    
			            - By John K. Waters
- 08/24/2011
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    China Standard Software Co. Ltd. (CS2C) signed a legal and interoperability deal with Microsoft today as part of a parnership deal with Linux server technology.
                    
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    A U.S. patent application filed this month by Microsoft updates an earlier holding concerning streaming data for faster computer startups.
                    
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    In a detailed post-mortem, which included an apology, Amazon Web Services is giving reasons for last week's massive cloud outage that hit its Dublin data center.
                    
			            - By Jeffrey  Schwartz
- 08/18/2011