Cloud Computing


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.

HP Considers Spinning Off PC Business, Buys Cloud Giant Autonomy

Hewlett-Packard made several major announcements on Thursday, foremost that it is considering the spinoff or sale of its PC division.

Microsoft Office 365, SkyDrive and CRM Online Hit by Outage

Many of Microsoft's cloud service offerings, including Office 365, CRM Online and SkyDrive, have experienced major outages today.

Survey: More Developers Are Moving to the Cloud

Despite persistent concerns about security, developers increasingly prefer cloud-based development tooling, according to a survey by Evans Data Corp.

Amazon Rolls Out Government-Only Cloud Services

Amazon Web Services announced on Tuesday its new GovCloud service, which is geared solely at U.S. federal departments seeking a secure cloud solution that meets specific regulatory and compliance requirements.

Xsigo's Server Fabric Switch Provides One-Click Cloud Connectivity

Xsigo Systems lays claim to first fully virtualized infrastructure for cloud-optimized data centers.

F5 Looks To Improve Cloud Services with Crescendo Network's Technology

F5 Networks has bought the intellectual property of Israel-based Crescendo Networks and will be hiring some of its engineering team.

VMTurbo Supports Microsoft Hyper-V

Virtualization management suite broadens scope of platform support by including Microsoft's hypervisor in the mix.

Citrix Acquires RingCube

In a move that strengthens its XenDesktop product against VMware View, Citrix announced its acquisition of the company that carved out market share with its vDesk solution set.

NetWrix Improves SharePoint, Virtualized Environment Auditing

Version 2 of its NetWrix Change Reporter also adds real-time and snapshot reporting capabilities.

Red Hat's OpenShift PaaS Gets Java EE 6 Support

The OpenShift Platform as a Service (PaaS) environment from Red Hat now supports Java Enterprise Edition 6 (Java EE 6), the company announced on Wednesday. The support is the result of an integration with the open source JBoss Application Server 7 (AS7).

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