During his Build conference keynote on Wednesday, Satya Nadella, president of Microsoft's Server and Tools Business, called Windows Server 8 "the most cloud-optimized OS" being developed by Microsoft.
Satya Nadella, president of Microsoft's Server and Tools Business, made the case for Windows Azure to independent software vendors (ISVs) during his Wednesday keynote at Build, as well as detailed some recent improvements to the cloud-based platform.
Microsoft has revealed that a DNS error resulted in an outage last Thursday of several Microsoft Live services, including SkyDrive, Hotmail, Office 365 and MSN.
Microsoft Server and Tools President Satya Nadella said his focus is to make it easier for enterprises to adopt multiple Microsoft technologies that will provide a hybrid public/private cloud solution.
Hewlett-Packard Co. announced on Wednesday that it is giving select beta testers early access to its forthcoming Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) portfolio.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 09/07/2011
The next version of Windows Intune, Microsoft's cloud service for systems management, will become generally available starting Oct. 17, the company announced Tuesday.
- By Scott Bekker
- 09/06/2011
Microsoft has released version 1.3.0 of the Windows Azure Toolkit for Windows Phone and version 1.2.1 of the Windows Azure Toolkit for iOS.
Trend Micro, SolarWinds, F5 demonstrate new and improved solutions around the VMware tool ecosystem
- By Michael Domingo
- 09/01/2011
Jim Curry, general manager of Rackspace Cloud Builders, is having a good time giving the people what they want.
These virtualization vendors will be getting more than your attention in the coming months.
ADCs serve a new generation of business applications, with specific benefits when implemented in virtualized and cloud-based environments.
- By Eric Beehler
- 09/01/2011
The company is charging full-speed into the cloud -- and showing it has what it takes to dominate an industry.
Dell Cloud takes VMware's vCloud Datacenter Services to its customers who want a piece of the cloud.
- By Michael Domingo
- 08/31/2011
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."
- By John K. Waters
- 08/31/2011
VMTurbo upgrades its virtualization management appliance with new application performance monitoring system.
- By Michael Domingo
- 08/31/2011
Storage company gets its virtualized storage solution certifed to work with VMware's latest product releases.
- By Michael Domingo
- 08/31/2011
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.
- By Scott Bekker
- 08/30/2011
vFabric Director to support open-source Postgres SQL database initially; it's available now at CloudFoundry.com.
- By Michael Domingo
- 08/30/2011
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."
The company claims its Virsto for VDI plays very well with VMware's vSphere.
- By Michael Domingo
- 08/30/2011