Systems Center Virtual Machine Manager 2012 will include new feature that will allow Windows apps not designed for Windows Azure to be deployed on Microsoft's cloud platform.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 03/24/2011
Microsoft rolled out the final release-to-Web (RTW) version of its Windows Intune PC management and security service on Thursday, during the Microsoft Management Summit in Las Vegas.
According to a Bloomberg article, Microsoft plans to eliminate the e-mail hosting cost for some BlackBerry customers, and may also be on the brink of a cloud storage deal with BlackBerry maker Research In Motion (RIM)
The second beta of Microsoft's rapid business application development tool, Visual Studio LightSwitch, was made available for download this week.
- By Michael Desmond
- 03/17/2011
There's browsing the Web, and then there's kinda browsing the Web with vSphere. Here's a tool that removes the "kinda" part.
At Monday's annual analyst meeting, HP CEO Leo Apotheker announced that Hewlett-Packard Co. plans to launch a public cloud service.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 03/15/2011
San Francisco-based Wavemaker, provider of a graphical development platform for Java-based Web and cloud applications, based on the Spring development enviornment, will be acquired by VMware, the company announced recently.
- By John K. Waters
- 03/09/2011
In this new column, Taneja Group lead virtualization analyst Dave Bartoletti will offer his personal insights and findings on all trends virtual and cloud.
- By Dave Bartoletti
- 03/07/2011
Salesforce.com has added support for native Facebook integration to Service Cloud, beefing up the app's social networking capabilities.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 03/03/2011
To extend its cloud services to Asia-Pacific customers, Amazon Web Services (AWS) on Wednesday announced the opening of a datacenter in Tokyo, Japan.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 03/02/2011
Rahul Bakshi of SunGard Availability Services doles out managed services.
Ellen Rubin's success with startups continues at CloudSwitch, a developer of a software appliance that enables companies to securely run applications in the cloud while remaining integrated with their datacenters.
The push to the cloud is putting heavy pressure on virtualized datacenters to change with the dynamic times.
Microsoft's flagship Windows, Office and Exchange offerings may face renewed challenges in the stratospheric battle to come.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 03/01/2011
The best way to learn anything is by doing it. You want to learn more about VMware vSphere? Build a lab.
In case you haven't heard, the messaging at VMware nowadays revolves around cloud computing.
- By Rick Vanover
- 03/01/2011
Amazon Web Services today launched a new offering aimed at easing the development and deployment of apps to the cloud.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 02/25/2011
Cisco is calling it quits on its cloud-based e-mail service that has been available for testing for the past year.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 02/24/2011
Over the past few weeks, Microsoft has signed contracts with 14 state and local government entities for its cloud computing services.
- By Paul McCloskey
- 02/24/2011
Last week, Oracle rolled out enhancements to its Sun Fire x86 product, bolstering the company's line of enterprise-class rackmount and blade servers for private cloud and highly virtualized deployments.