Cisco, EMC and VMware on Tuesday kicked off a new Virtual Computing Environment "coalition" to promote datacenter virtualization and private cloud deployments.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- 11/03/2009
VMworld 2009 has come and gone-in a puff of cloud, you might say. It was a good show, still valuable, but not a great show like last year.
Just weeks before Microsoft is expected to launch SQL Azure, Amazon on Tuesday said it will let customers host relational data in its EC2 cloud service using MySQL.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 10/27/2009
The president of Microsoft's Business Division got the hot seat at the Gartner Symposium ITxpo event last week.
- By Herb Torrens
- 10/26/2009
An independent security researcher and a prominent figure in open source exploit data collection now has a new commercial home.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 10/21/2009
A Microsoft-sponsored IDC study predicted relatively healthy employment prospects for skilled IT labor over the next four years.
Microsoft's CEO Steve Ballmer gave a keynote talk at a Microsoft event called "The New Efficiency" on Tuesday.
Microsoft's chief financial officer fielded questions about Microsoft's business at the Citi Annual Technology Conference on Wednesday.
Sifting through the myriad of cloud offerings can be confusing, but not impossible. Here are five cloud services categories to keep an eye on.
- By Danielle Ruest and Nelson Ruest
- 09/01/2009
The fifth annual VMworld user conference gets under way this week in San Francisco with a flurry of product announcements, a packed schedule and a bit of controversy.
- By John K. Waters
- 08/30/2009
Microsoft's Brad Anderson on Tuesday talked about the company's management product strategies, while downplaying those of VMware, at investment banker-sponsored event.
Microsoft gave investors a look at the company's business prospects on Tuesday at the Oppenheimer Annual Communications, Technology & Internet Conference in Boston.
- By Herb Torrens
- 08/11/2009
The leading supplier of virtualization technology looks to extend its platform-as-a-service (PaaS) effort by adding the chief sponsor of the open source Spring Framework.
- By John K. Waters
- 08/10/2009
IDC report says expenditures by enterprises on open source software jumped 34 percent last year and spending in 2009 is on pace to increase at least another 24 percent.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 08/04/2009
Cloud computing promises cost savings, increased flexibility and improved remote access to resources, but these advantages come at a cost.
- By William Jackson
- 08/03/2009
The Unified Computing System supports VMware and Hyper-V and aims to be a "Cloud in a Box" solution. But can Cisco transition from routers to servers?
- By Mark Ferelli
- 08/01/2009
Microsoft announced pricing for its Windows Azure cloud computing services on Tuesday at its Worldwide Partner Conference in New Orleans.
IBM today unveiled cloud-based services for enterprises that can be hosted or run on a customer's premises, or a hybrid of the two.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 06/16/2009
Microsoft executive Bill Koefoed answered some questions about the software giant's business prospects on Wednesday at an investment firm-sponsored technology conference.
VMware on Thursday announced the general availability of the vSphere 4 family of virtualization products.