Microsoft announced new consumer, student and small business editions, and is fortifying its connection through newer cloud connections.
Virtualization and cloud behemoth VMware followed up good news of rising revenues in its latest earnings report with some bad news on impending layoffs.
- By Michael Domingo
- 01/29/2013
New innovations like automated tiered storage, thin provisioning, continuous snapshots and remote replication has companies reconsidering VDI.
- By Lazarus Vekiarides
- 01/28/2013
Version 2 has deeper integration with VMware tools, including vCloud Director and Amazon EC2 support.
- By Michael Domingo
- 01/23/2013
Latest upgrade also adds MySQL Enterprise as a database repository option, plus a slew of new features and improvements.
- By John K. Waters
- 01/23/2013
VMware CTO Steve Herrod blogged earlier today that he is resigning his post at the company.
- By Michael Domingo
- 01/16/2013
Red Hat's latest 5 point release finally makes the Hyper-V connection and improves security and supports a wider variety of hardware.
- By Michael Domingo
- 01/16/2013
What appeals most to businesses about application modernization and cloud computing delivery models is the ability to help enterprises become more efficient by reducing costs and increasing the flexibility and productivity of their IT environment.
Organizing IT operations into four groups can bring an IT organization into alignment with how businesses acquire IT services in a cloud computing world.
- By Travis Greene
- 01/09/2013
In an e-mail to staff and students on Wednesday, the University of California, Berkeley announced that it is switching to Google Apps for Education for cloud-based e-mail and calendaring, not Microsoft's Office 365 suite.
In this first of a series on Hyper-V, Paul reviews tips for configuring virtual and physical processors for optimum performance.
- By Paul Schnackenburg
- 12/21/2011
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.