Google's contract to provide cloud-based applications to the city of Los Angeles hit a snag this week, after the city expressed concerns over the security of Google's offerings.
"Wave 2," the name of the second generation of Microsoft's Windows Intune cloud-based PC management service, was released as scheduled on Monday.
IBM this week fleshed out its SmartCloud public and private cloud portfolio as it looks to capture what it is predicting will be a growing base of enterprise customers.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 10/14/2011
Microsoft outlined some of the new features coming in the next release of SQL Azure -- which the company said will arrive in Q4 2011 -- during Day 2 of the PASS Summit, taking place this week in Seattle.
Google Cloud SQL, which adds a MySQL database Web service to Google's cloud-based App Engine development stack, is now available in a free preview version, Google announced this week.
Oracle CEO Larry Ellison took the stage on Wednesday at the annual Oracle OpenWorld conference to unveil the Oracle Public Cloud, a Platform as a Service (PaaS) designed to run the company's Fusion Applications, which are now generally available.
- By John K. Waters
- 10/06/2011
Apple said on Tuesday that its previously announced iCloud service will become available next week, though any news about the personal cloud service was overshadowed by the launch of a new iPhone that same day.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 10/04/2011
In an announcement made online by Piston Computing this week, the company will start offering an operating system based on the open source OpenStack platform for private clouds.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 09/30/2011
Engine Yard, a provider of Platform as a Service (PaaS) for Ruby on Rails, announced this week it now supports JRuby applications on its cloud platform.
- By John K. Waters
- 09/29/2011
In another example of Microsoft's outreach to open source communities and projects, the company announced on Tuesday it is collaborating with team members of the OpenNebula project to add Windows Server Hyper-V support.
In an attempt to upend the tablet market, Web retailer Amazon.com launched its Kindle Fire tablet in New York on Wednesday.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 09/28/2011
Windows Live will be a key element in Windows 8's roaming and single sign-on capabilities, Microsoft recently revealed.
Rajat Taneja, most recently the vice president of Microsoft's Commerce Division, is leaving Microsoft for game software publisher Electronic Arts (EA), where he will be CTO.
Amazon Web Services has received approval from the General Services Administration (GSA) to provide cloud services to government agencies in compliance with the Federal Information Security Management Act (FISMA).
- By Kevin McCaney
- 09/16/2011
Rackspace will be adding the open source cloud platform OpenStack over its entire network, according to a company announcement this week.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 09/16/2011
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.
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.
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