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
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    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.
                    
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    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 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
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    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.
                    
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    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.
                    
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    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
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    The next version of Windows Intune, Microsoft's cloud service for systems management, will become generally available starting Oct. 17, the company announced Tuesday.
                    
			            - By Scott  Bekker
- 09/06/2011
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Microsoft has released version 1.3.0 of the Windows Azure Toolkit for Windows Phone and version 1.2.1 of the Windows Azure Toolkit for iOS. 
                    
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Trend Micro, SolarWinds, F5 demonstrate new and improved solutions around the VMware tool ecosystem 
                    
			            - By Michael  Domingo
- 09/01/2011
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Jim Curry, general manager of Rackspace Cloud Builders, is having a good time giving the people what they want.
                    
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    These virtualization vendors will be getting more than your attention in the coming months.
                    
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    ADCs serve a new generation of business applications, with specific benefits when implemented in virtualized and cloud-based environments.
                    
			            - By Eric  Beehler
- 09/01/2011