Cloud Computing


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.

Cloud Provider Savvis Acquired by CenturyLink

Telecommunications giant CenturyLink today said it has agreed to acquire Savvis, a provider of managed hosting and cloud services, for $2.5 billion.

Getting Started with vCenter Operations

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

Amazon Cloud Services Restored

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has restored service for a majority of its customers after an outage that began on Thursday left numerous organizations down for more than three days.

Google Touts Its Cloud Security, Energy-Saving Measures

On Friday, Google gave a rare look into how it locks down one of the datacenters in its global network.

The Network Automation Imperative

When your virtualization or cloud project sputters in efficiency, network automation can get that project some new life.

Amazon Cloud Service Outage Cripples Multiple Web Sites

Latency and connectivity issues affecting Amazon Web Services' Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) and Rational Database Services is thought to be the cause of manyWeb site outages.

Every Admin Should ThinApp the vSphere Client

VMware Lab's ThinApped vSphere client allows running the client without installing it.

Public Beta of Microsoft Office 365 Released

Microsoft today released the public beta of Office 365, the company's widely anticipated cloud-based productivity suite.

Microsoft Brings Dynamics ERP Line to Cloud

Microsoft announced on Monday that it plans to deliver its entire Dynamics portfolio as a cloud-based service.

Microsoft Unveils IE 10 Preview, Azure Products at MIX 11

Microsoft has debuted the first platform preview of IE 10, just four weeks after the final version of Internet Explorer 9 (IE 9) was released.

Cloud Foundry Springs Forth as First 'Open' PaaS

VMware today announced the debut of Cloud Foundry, which the company is touting as the first "open platform as a service," or PaaS.

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