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.
                    
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    The General Services Administration is moving e-mail and collaboration tools to the cloud, becoming the first federal agency to move e-mail to a cloud-based system agencywide, GSA officials said yesterday. 
                    
			            - By Rutrell  Yasin
- 12/02/2010
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Package makes it easy to run Windows apps from anywhere.
                    
			            - By Logan  Harbaugh
- 12/01/2010
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Marathon Technologies last week rolled out software aimed at broadening the availability of fault tolerant computing. 
                    
			            - By Jeffrey  Schwartz
- 10/15/2010
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Citrix Systems is on the move yet again, virtually speaking, having formed a desktop virtualization partnership with Cisco Systems. 
                    
			            - By Dian  Schaffhauser
- 09/09/2010
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Microsoft last week described a different way to use desktop virtualization to maintain legacy applications and still move users to Windows 7.
                    
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    VirtualBox users are out there and alive and well in the virtualization community -- so much so that the inaugural Virtumania podcast topic was the free type 2 hypervisor.
                    
			            - By Rick  Vanover
- 09/01/2010
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    As Mel Brooks once declared -- and as more than one VMware employee has since crowed -- "It's good to be king." 
                    
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    VMware President and CEO Paul Maritz has bet the farm on cloud computing.