Cloud Computing


Certified for vSAN: Ecosystem Building Around VMware Storage

No vSAN yet, but companies back the software-defined storage solution.

IBM, Actifio Partner on Virtualizing Data Management

IBM and Actifio partner to help companies break away from independent silos of data.

VMTurbo Improves Efficiency in Virtual Environments

Move from reactive to predictive workload management with new version of VMTurbo Operations Manager.

As Nadella Heads Redmond, Guthrie Moves Into the Cloud

With Microsoft's former head of the Cloud & Enterprise division stepping up, Microsoft has named Scott Guthrie to replace Satya Nadella.

Microsoft To Focus on Mobile, Cloud First (Nadella)

Very soon after Satya Nadella was named Microsoft CEO, he laid out the company's vision in a speech before customers, partners and Microsoft employees in which he quickly outlined the company's "mobile first/cloud first" message.

Clouds Form on Microsoft Q2 2014 (And It's a Good Thing)

Microsoft's cloud vision is having a positive impact on the company's financials, according to the latest earnings filing.

Citrix Makes Gains in 2013, But CEO To Retire

Citrix finished up fiscal 2013 with a mix of good news and bad news.

More Mobile, Cloud-Friendly XenApp, XenDesktop

Citrix adds new cloud-friendly and mobility features to XenDesktop 75 and XenApp 7.5. Also new is support for AWS and CloudPlatform-powered clouds.

Cisco Debuts New Cloud Portfolio

Networking giant announces multi-cloud infrastructure software that will link with Windows Azure, System Center, and cloud wares and services from other partners to boost interoperability and security.

VMware Caps 2013 with $5.21B

The cloud and virtualization company released its year-end fiscal report, showing 13 percent revenue growth for the year, at $5.21 billion.

VM Backups, Recovery Improved with Newest Symantec NetBackup

The first upgrade of NetBackup in two years addresses large growth in data and virtual machines.

Instant Branch Recovery Anywhere in Your Cloud

Riverbed Granite 2.6 supports more branches and bigger data sets.

Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization 3.3, Red Hat Cloud Infrastructure 4.0 Now Out

Red Hat expands cloud-building lineup with two new OpenStack-ready releases.

VMware Makes $1.48B, Then Spends $1.17B for MDM Company AirWatch

VMware's preliminary report shows 15 percent revenue upswing. It also says the AirWatch buy is largest in company history.

Microsoft Releases Windows Azure Hyper-V Recovery Manager Service

Microsoft said that it's Windows Azure disaster recovery service is now production-environment-ready

Ensim Brands File, Backup Services for Service Providers

Ensim adds to its end-to-end BSS/OSS cloud offering.

Configuring vSphere Flash Read Cache

It's read-only, but it's a big enough boost in speed to matter.

Goliath Offers Wide View of VMware Services

MonitorIT works natively with VMware to monitor and report on system metrics.

Citrix Takes Solutions-Based Path with Certifications

New certification titles take program into different direction focusing on solutions rather than products.

Nutanix Adds Hyper-V Support

Converged compute and storage solution goes hypervisor-agnostic.

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