Virtualization is a major planetary body in the enterprise IT universe, impacting servers, storage, desktops and more. On the same trajectory is video conferencing infrastructure, and they'r ready to collide.
- By Tom Toperczer
- 12/15/2011
In an surprising move, Microsoft on Tuesday made its consumer-oriented SkyDrive cloud storage service available for Apple mobile devices, as well its own Windows Phone devices.
Microsoft issued the fourth-quarter service release of its Windows Azure cloud computing platform on Saturday, with an emphasis on open source interoperability improvements, expanded database capacity and "simplified pricing."
There is a common belief that the future of IaaS clouds will be dominated by telcos. That belief is wrong for many reasons.
- By Boris Renski
- 12/01/2011
Oracle this week announced the forthcoming availability of Oracle WebLogic Server 12c, a major update of the company's WebLogic app server and the cornerstone of its Cloud Application Foundation.
- By John K. Waters
- 12/01/2011
Two of Microsoft's cloud-based services, Office 365 and SkyDrive, underwent significant updates on Tuesday.
Joyent has signed on to VMware's Community Leads program to lend its Node.js expertise to that company's Cloud Foundry project.
- By John K. Waters
- 11/17/2011
Fujitsu this week launched a hybrid cloud offering that lets enterprises tie apps running on-premises to those running on Microsoft's Windows Azure service.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 11/17/2011
An executive within Microsoft's Server and Tools division gave investors some perspective on Microsoft's cloud vision on Monday, at the CLSA Asia USA Forum in San Francisco.
Consumer tech retailing giant Best Buy has agreed to buy IT outsourcer and cloud provider mindSHIFT Technologies for $167 million.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 11/07/2011
According to a report published Friday by The Wall Street Journal, Google has inked a deal with General Motors Corp. to move the automaker's 100,000 employees to the cloud-based Google Apps suite.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 11/04/2011
To encourage U.S. government agencies to adopt cloud computing technologies, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has issued a "roadmap" draft for public comment.
- By Rutrell Yasin
- 11/03/2011
Maintaining control and security are essential when building out virtualized datacenters.
- By Eric Beehler
- 11/01/2011
Embotics combines all the bells and whistles in one slick, easy-to-use private cloud package.
More and more x86 workloads are returning to the big box. It makes perfect sense, too, as it's the big box where the cloud had been conceived decades ago.
You want a piece of Jon Toigo? Be my guest.
The variety of cloud security strategies leaves users with interesting and diverse choices.
Shared storage is one of the main enablers of enterprise features in virtualization.
- By Elias Khnaser
- 11/01/2011
Citrix Systems rolled out several new products on Wednesday during its Synergy partner conference in Barcelona.
- By Kurt Mackie, Jeffrey Schwartz
- 10/27/2011
A Q&A with the tech chief on what keeps the company looking above the cloud.