Cloud Computing


OpenStack Aims to Please the 'Open' Cloud Crowd

Jim Curry, general manager of Rackspace Cloud Builders, is having a good time giving the people what they want.

5 Hot Virtualization Companies, Under the Covers

These virtualization vendors will be getting more than your attention in the coming months.

The ABCs of Application Delivery Controllers

ADCs serve a new generation of business applications, with specific benefits when implemented in virtualized and cloud-based environments.

VMware Is on Track To Dominate the Cloud

The company is charging full-speed into the cloud -- and showing it has what it takes to dominate an industry.

Dude, Dell's in the Cloud Business

Dell Cloud takes VMware's vCloud Datacenter Services to its customers who want a piece of the cloud.

Cloud Giant Salesforce.com Touts Enterprise Social Network Platform 'Chatter'

During his keynote at the annual Dreamforce conference taking place this week in San Francisco, Salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff left little doubt about the direction his company is taking: "We're were born cloud, and now we've been reborn social."

VMTurbo Manages the Virtualization Stack, Top to Bottom

VMTurbo upgrades its virtualization management appliance with new application performance monitoring system.

FalconStor NSS is VMware-Certified

Storage company gets its virtualized storage solution certifed to work with VMware's latest product releases.

Microsoft Announces 'Cloud CRM for Less' Program

A Microsoft program unveiled on Monday called "Cloud CRM for Less" would pay customers $150 per user seat for switching to Microsoft Dynamics CRM Online from competitors SAP, Salesforce.com and Oracle.

VMware Takes Database Development to the Cloud

vFabric Director to support open-source Postgres SQL database initially; it's available now at CloudFoundry.com.

Cloud Licensing Takes Center Stage in Microsoft-VMware Rivalry

Microsoft revved up its cloud marketing message on Monday with the release of a whitepaper titled "Microsoft Private Cloud: A Comparative Look at Functionality, Benefits and Economics."

Virsto Powers Up First Storage Hypervisor

The company claims its Virsto for VDI plays very well with VMware's vSphere.

With Recover2Cloud, Disaster Relief Comes to Cloud Services

Sungard provides what it calls the first cloud disaster recovery service of its kind for VMware VMs.

vCloud Express Gets Monitoring Capabilities

Monitoring, reporting on public cloud services provided through partnership with Goliath Technologies.

AppSense To Add 'Virtualization Environment Impact Reporting' Capabilities

AppSense partners with Lakeside Software to help customers figure out how virtualization can impact computing environment.

VMware vSphere 5 Now Generally Available

VMware's newest hypervisor upgrade officially released before the company's VMworld Conference taking place next week in Las Vegas.

eXO Cloud IDE Extends Support to VMware Cloud Foundry

eXo's Cloud IDE development tool, which the company touts as the industry's only cloud-based integrated development environment (IDE), now supports VMware's Cloud Foundry Platform as a Service (PaaS).

VMware Steps Up PaaS Effort with Micro Cloud Foundry Beta

VMware on Wednesday released the beta of Micro Cloud Foundry, a complete version of its Cloud Foundry Platform as a Service (PaaS) designed to run on developers' PCs or Macs.

Fast Startup Via Cloud May Be in Microsoft's OS Future

A U.S. patent application filed this month by Microsoft updates an earlier holding concerning streaming data for faster computer startups.

Amazon Provides Explanation for Cloud Outage in Dublin Last Week

In a detailed post-mortem, which included an apology, Amazon Web Services is giving reasons for last week's massive cloud outage that hit its Dublin data center.

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