Microsoft today released the public beta of Office 365, the company's widely anticipated cloud-based productivity suite.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 04/18/2011
VMware Lab's ThinApped vSphere client allows running the client without installing it.
Microsoft announced on Monday that it plans to deliver its entire Dynamics portfolio as a cloud-based service.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 04/12/2011
VMware today announced the debut of Cloud Foundry, which the company is touting as the first "open platform as a service," or PaaS.
- By Michael Domingo
- 04/12/2011
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.
- By Michael Desmond
- 04/12/2011
IBM raised its cloud presence on Thursday with the launch of two new services: SmartCloud, which is designed to enhance IBM's public cloud infrastructure services, and Workload Deployer, the company's new solution for building private clouds.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 04/07/2011
Dell today said it is investing $1 billion in cloud computing under a two-year plan to build out datacenters that will let customers subscribe to virtualized compute infrastructure and storage.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 04/07/2011
Microsoft has entered into a partnership with Toyota Motor Co. that would link Microsoft's Windows Azure cloud computing platform with car telematics technologies.
For private clouds to become viable, organizations must embrace several steps to advance their private cloud strategies.
Unified communications adoption in the United States has doubled over the past year, and many organizations are moving their UC implementations to the cloud.
During the Microsoft Hosting Summit being held in Bellevue, Wash. this week, Microsoft outlined some planned licensing changes that will help its service provider partners and Software Assurance (SA) customers.
Vendors build proof-of-concept environment on top of OpenStack's cloud OS to show customers what's possible in the cloud.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 03/30/2011
Cisco Systems today said it has agreed to acquire newScale Inc., a supplier of software that provides self-service provisioning of cloud-based services.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 03/29/2011
Microsoft's Free Hyper-V needs a GUI. In the meantime, a third-party provider has filled in the gap.
VMware customers looking for openness in cloud solutions might see vSphere support in the forthcoming OpenStack Compute "Cactus" release as a opportunity.
- By Michael Domingo
- 03/28/2011
Acknowledging that some enterprise customers don't want to share computing resources, Amazon Web Services (AWS) today launched what it calls EC2 Dedicated Instances.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 03/28/2011
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