Lightning strikes in Dublin, Ireland on Sunday resulted in brief outages at separate cloud datacenters run by Amazon and Microsoft.
Just over a month after the state of Wyoming wrapped up its wholesale move to Google's cloud, the company has finalized the migration of another public-sector client: the U.S. General Services Administration (GSA).
- By Rutrell Yasin
- 07/28/2011
In a move to extend their partnership on Microsoft's Windows Azure cloud computing platform, Capgemini and Microsoft are planning to address the cloud computing needs of businesses in 22 countries using Azure.
A cloud-focused panel last week hosted by the Brookings Institution examined how developments in encryption technology could strengthen identity and access rights in public clouds.
- By Rutrell Yasin
- 07/20/2011
Amazon announced last week that the Microsoft "license mobility with Software Assurance (SA)" program can also apply to Amazon Web Services (AWS).
Amitabh Srivastava, the former head of Microsoft's Server and Cloud Division (SCD), has been named president of EMC Corp.'s Advanced Storage Division.
Less than a month after its beta release, the Microsoft Assessment and Planning Toolkit 6.0 (MAP 6.0) became generally available on Monday.
Microsoft went into greater detail on Thursday about the improvements to Windows Live SkyDrive, its free cloud-based storage and file-sharing product.
VMware today unveiled an upgrade of its flagship virtualization platform, vSphere 5, along with a suite of products aimed at the cloud.
- By John K. Waters
- 07/12/2011
According to an nCircle study of government and industry IT professionals, security in the cloud seems to be a huge factor when weighing the potential cost savings -- with two to one agreeing its the factor that's holding back the migration.
- By William Jackson
- 07/12/2011
In a deal in which terms have not been disclosed, Citrix Systems today said it has acquired Cloud.com, a provider of software for building public and private clouds.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 07/12/2011
A Q&A with Paul Prince, CTO of the Dell Enterprise Product Group.
According to an announcement today by Amazon Web Services, fees for inbound data trasfers are now removed and outbound data transfer costs are lowered.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 06/30/2011
You can create some advanced virtual networks with this nifty tool. Have you tried it? Plus: Upcoming VMware Webinar July 12!
IBM is planning to roll out a set of cloud-based backup services designed to help organizations save, archive and restore data after a system failure or disaster.
- By Henry Kenyon
- 06/28/2011
At a New York launch event on Tuesday, Microsoft announced that Office 365 is now officially available in 40 markets globally.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 06/28/2011
According to a Symantec survey, not only are business and IT executives frequently not on the same page when it comes to virtualization and cloud computing, but in some case they're not even reading from the same book.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- 06/28/2011
Last week, Wyoming became the first state to "go Google," as all 10,000 of its employees moved to Google Apps for Government.
Enterhost recently debuted four new cloud services based around Microsoft's cloud platform. The company is a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner based in Fort Worth, Texas specializing in Windows-based Web hosting.
Starting July, Microsoft will allow for free inbound Windows Azure data transfers during peak hours as well as off-hours.