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).
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.
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
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
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
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!
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
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
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.
Citrix CTO joins two other founders at Bromium, which Crosby said is focused on security and virtualization.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 06/22/2011
The president of Microsoft's Server and Tools Business Division, Satya Nadella, answered questions about cloud computing on Wednesday in a 15-minute Q&A at the GigaOM Structure event, taking place in San Francisco.
Microsoft Business Productivity Online Suite (BPOS), the company's cloud-based Exchange messaging service, went down again on Wednesday across North America.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 06/22/2011
A newly released forecast by IDC projects that IT spending in the public cloud sector will have a compounded annual growth rate of 27.6 percent over the next four years, raising the total global spending in the market to $72.9 Billion by 2015.