Microsoft filed a motion with a Washington State Superior Court on Thursday that accuses Matt Miszewski, former market development manager for Microsoft's government group, of stealing 600 MB of documents the company considered confidential when taking a new position at Salesforce.com.
                    
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Managers are asking the tough questions about public and private clouds and it boils down to one thing: trust.
                    
			            - By Manny  Vellon
- 02/10/2011
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Microsoft Wednesday released Service Pack 1 for Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 to its equipment manufacturing partners.
                    
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Two entries in this month's security update, released Tuesday, blocks Windows 7 users from connecting to VMware's View Connection Servers, according to a VMware security bulletin.
                    
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    In a move key to bridging public and private clouds based on its virtual machines, VMware this week said it will release software that ties internal vSphere VMs to service providers' cloud platforms. 
                    
			            - By Jeffrey  Schwartz
- 02/09/2011
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Microsoft outlined desktop virtualization tips late last week that IT pros and developers can use to test the compatibility of their Web sites on a single PC.
                    
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    A college in Vermont is significantly reducing the number of its physical servers by going virtual. The payoff? Energy efficiency, cost savings, and a second data center just for disaster recovery.
                    
			            - By Bridget  McCrea
- 02/07/2011
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    So far, so good: $13M saved, 80% ROI
                    
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Hewlett-Packard Co. launches portfolio of private cloud services, hardware and software and announces plans to jump into public cloud hosting.
                    
			            - By Jeffrey  Schwartz
- 01/27/2011
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Add transactional e-mail hosting and distribution to the list of services offered by Amazon Web Services.
                    
			            - By Jeffrey  Schwartz
- 01/25/2011
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    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.
                    
			            - By Jeffrey  Schwartz
- 01/20/2011
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    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.
                    
			            - By William  Jackson
- 01/20/2011
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    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.
                    
			            - By Jeffrey  Schwartz
- 01/18/2011
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    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.
                    
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
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                    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.