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.
Microsoft filed a motion with a Washington State Superior Court on Thursday that accuses Matt Miszewski, former market development manager for Microsoft's government group, of stealing 600 MB of documents the company considered confidential when taking a new position at Salesforce.com.
Managers are asking the tough questions about public and private clouds and it boils down to one thing: trust.
- By Manny Vellon
- 02/10/2011
In a move key to bridging public and private clouds based on its virtual machines, VMware this week said it will release software that ties internal vSphere VMs to service providers' cloud platforms.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 02/09/2011
Hewlett-Packard Co. launches portfolio of private cloud services, hardware and software and announces plans to jump into public cloud hosting.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 01/27/2011
Add transactional e-mail hosting and distribution to the list of services offered by Amazon Web Services.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 01/25/2011
Amazon Web Services this week took a significant step forward in making it easier for developers to deploy its apps to the company's widely used cloud services.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 01/20/2011
The cloud is the current Next Big Thing in computing, and the Next Big Thing in attacks could be a new breed of economic denial-of-service attacks intended to use up resources and drive up the cost of cloud computing, warns a senior security researcher at Adobe Systems.
- By William Jackson
- 01/20/2011
In its bid to take on Salesforce.com and Oracle in the hotly contested market for CRM software-as-a-service (SaaS), Microsoft Monday launched its Dynamics CRM 2011 Online.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 01/18/2011
Rackspace Hosting has turned to Akamai Technologies to provide Web acceleration and its content delivery network (CDN) to Rackspace's cloud and hosted services customers.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 01/13/2011
Amazon Web Services today said it has added two new support plans to its enterprise cloud services and lowered the cost of its existing two support offerings by 50 percent.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 01/06/2011
The Interior Department can't award a noncompetitive contract to Microsoft, a federal judge has ruled.
- By Matthew Weigelt
- 01/05/2011
Nasuni CEO Andres Rodriguez believes he can handle the large data problem by leveraging the endless capacity of the cloud.
The Microsoft marketing meister describes a team effort in Redmond.
Rackspace Hosting today said it has acquired Cloudkick, a two-year old startup that offers tools to manage multiple cloud services.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 12/16/2010
Hosting provider OpSource Tuesday added a suite of managed offerings to its cloud services.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 12/15/2010
Rackspace Hosting is looking to make cloud computing appealing to a broader set of customers that might not have the resources or acumen to manage systems and apps in the cloud.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 12/15/2010
F5 Networks is readying software that will let enterprises extend their storage networks to public and private clouds.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 12/14/2010
The Agriculture Department is moving its e-mail, document-sharing, and other collaboration tools to Microsoft's cloud infrastructure to save money and improve efficiency, USDA officials said today.
- By Rutrell Yasin
- 12/09/2010
How will your systems make the transition? We offer answers to seven questions about cloud migration.
- By Eric Beehler
- 12/07/2010