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
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    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.
                    
			            - By Jeffrey  Schwartz
- 01/06/2011
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    The Interior Department can't award a noncompetitive contract to Microsoft, a federal judge has ruled. 
                    
			            - By Matthew  Weigelt
- 01/05/2011
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Package makes it easy to run Windows applications from anywhere -- no installation required.
                    
			            - By Logan  Harbaugh
- 01/01/2011
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Nasuni CEO Andres Rodriguez believes he can handle the large data problem by leveraging the endless capacity of the cloud.
                    
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Our readers rate products, and we reward them with the hands-down, most-informative, must-read print guide to virtualization and cloud products.
                    
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    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.
                    
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    The Microsoft marketing meister describes a team effort in Redmond.
                    
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Start the new year off with our helpful roadmap of the top vendors looking to make a splash in your enterprise in 2011.
                    
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Bob Metcalfe reflects on the great LAN wars.
                    
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Rackspace Hosting today said it has acquired Cloudkick, a two-year old startup that offers tools to manage multiple cloud services. 
                    
			            - By Jeffrey  Schwartz
- 12/16/2010
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Hosting provider OpSource Tuesday added a suite of managed offerings to its cloud services.
                    
			            - By Jeffrey  Schwartz
- 12/15/2010
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    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.
                    
			            - By Jeffrey  Schwartz
- 12/15/2010
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    F5 Networks is readying software that will let enterprises extend their storage networks to public and private clouds.
                    
			            - By Jeffrey  Schwartz
- 12/14/2010
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    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.
                    
			            - By Rutrell  Yasin
- 12/09/2010
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    How will your systems make the transition? We offer answers to seven questions about cloud migration.
                    
			            - By Eric  Beehler
- 12/07/2010
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Billing it as the first database for the cloud, Salesforce.com today is announcing Database.com, targeted at next-generation enterprise apps.
                    
			            - By Jeffrey  Schwartz
- 12/07/2010
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Amazon Web Services today launched the beta of a programmable and purportedly scalable hosted Domain Name System service aimed at letting users of its cloud services create, modify and delete DNS zone files. 
                    
			            - By Jeffrey  Schwartz
- 12/06/2010
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Microsoft today announced that the release candidate of Service Pack 1 for System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 R2 is now available.
                    
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Revenue was up 13.2 percent in the third quarter from global server sales, according to the IDC research firm.