Cloud Computing


Microsoft Showcases Windows Azure Cloud and Devices at Tech-Ed

Microsoft officially kicked off its Tech-Ed North America conference on Monday with a keynote that focused, in part, on moving to the cloud and managing services and applications in hybrid environments and across multiple devices.

From Tech-Ed: Hyper-V Expands Interoperability with CentOS Support

Hosting solutions providers able to manage various cloud infrastructures from Hyper-V.

Source: PlayStation Network Hacked Using Amazon's Cloud Service

A report this morning from Bloomberg News points to hackers using Amazon's Elastic Computer Cloud as a staging area for the attack on Sony's PlayStation Network -- which led the service to be shut down for almost a month.

VMware Reaches Agreement To Buy Shavlik Technologies

Shavlik Technologies, a provider of security and management software for desktops and servers, will be acquired by virtualization and cloud provider VMware, the companies announced on Monday morning.

Outages Hit Microsoft's Web-Based Productivity Service

Microsoft's Business Productivity Online Services (BPOS) experienced multiple outages this week, the company admitted on Thursday.

Google Chrome OS-Based Notebooks Coming Next Month

Google on Wednesday announced "Chromebooks," the upcoming line of notebook computers that will run the company's Chrome operating system.

Microsoft Reaches $8.5 Billion Deal for Skype

Microsoft on Tuesday announced it has agreed to acquire Skype for $8.5 billion, making it the largest acquisition in Microsoft's history.

Study: Security a Low Priority for Three-Quarters of Cloud Providers

According to a recent survey by the Ponemon Institute, security is not a top priority for most cloud computing vendors and customers.

Red Hat Fills Out Cloud Portfolio with PaaS, IaaS Offerings

Red Hat has bolstered its cloud offerings with the release of a Platform as a Service (PaaS) offering for developers and new software to enable Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS).

How vCenter Operations Can Help You

Your vSphere infrastructure needs monitoring, and that's where vCenter Operations comes in. Let's take a look at how to work with it.

VMware's Cloud Foundry Recovers from Outages

VMware's fledgling Cloud Foundry service experienced two brief outages last week, though the outages pale in comparison to Amazon Web Services' four-day outage that concluded early last week.

Microsoft Repositions Guthrie To Lead Azure Application Platform Team

Scott Guthrie, corporate vice president of the .NET Platform at Microsoft, will move to Microsoft's Windows Azure group as part of a May reorg.

Storage Virtualization Pain Points

Depleted resources, storage provisioning, virtual machine sprawl and excessive virtual hard disk files are some of the key challenges facing storage virtualization users.

Anytime, Anywhere, Any Device: Citrix Wants to Do It All

Citrix has built a global company that wants to "play well with others" and has struck up some key partnerships in the process.

Review: Veeam Backup & Replication 5 Living Up to the Hype

Veeam's latest streamlines processes and shines in vSphere environments.

Papirov Has Everyone Looking at Paraleap

Which is more perilous: fleeing the Soviet Union before the fall of communism or starting up a cloud-computing business with no venture funding? Igor Papirov has survived both.

How Salesforce.com Is Winning Mindshare with SaaS: An Interview with Peter Coffee

Salesforce.com's Director of Platform Research offers his thoughts on his company running with the SaaS tag, as well as how virtualization and cloud computing are impacting business.

Amazon Cites Badly Executed Upgrade as Cause for Cloud Outage

A detailed postmortem issued by Amazon Web Services on Friday details the cause of last week's massive cloud outage, which crippled numerous Amazon customers for several days and, for some users, resulted in permanent data loss.

Dell's Boomi Updates 'Integration Cloud' with AtomSphere Spring 11 Release

Dell has announced that its recently acquired Boomi software will now include Java Message Service (JMS) connectors for middleware products from IBM, WebMethods, Tibco and Progress Software.

Google Apps for Business No Longer Free for Some

Starting in May, organizations with 10 or more users who want to use Google Apps for Business will need to pay subscription fees.

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