Veeam's latest streamlines processes and shines in vSphere environments.
                    
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Which is more perilous: fleeing the Soviet Union before the fall of communism or starting up a cloud-computing business with no venture funding? Igor Papirov has survived both.
                    
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Salesforce.com's Director of Platform Research offers his thoughts on his company running with the SaaS tag, as well as how virtualization and cloud computing are impacting business.
                    
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    A detailed postmortem issued by Amazon Web Services on Friday details the cause of last week's massive cloud outage, which crippled numerous Amazon customers for several days and, for some users, resulted in permanent data loss.
                    
			            - By Jeffrey  Schwartz
- 04/29/2011
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Dell has announced that its recently acquired Boomi software will now include Java Message Service (JMS) connectors for middleware products from IBM, WebMethods, Tibco and Progress Software.
                    
			            - By John K. Waters
- 04/27/2011
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Starting in May, organizations with 10 or more users who want to use Google Apps for Business will need to pay subscription fees. 
                    
			            - By Jeffrey  Schwartz
- 04/27/2011
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Telecommunications giant CenturyLink today said it has agreed to acquire Savvis, a provider of managed hosting and cloud services, for $2.5 billion.
                    
			            - By Jeffrey  Schwartz
- 04/27/2011
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Your vSphere infrastructure needs monitoring, and that's where vCenter Operations comes in. Let's take a look at how to work with it.
                    
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Amazon Web Services (AWS) has restored service for a majority of its customers after an outage that began on Thursday left numerous organizations down for more than three days. 
                    
			            - By Jeffrey  Schwartz
- 04/25/2011
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    On Friday, Google gave a rare look into how it locks down one of the datacenters in its global network.
                    
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    When your virtualization or cloud project sputters in efficiency, network automation can get that project some new life. 
                    
			            - By Steve  Garrison
- 04/21/2011
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Latency and connectivity issues affecting Amazon Web Services' Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) and Rational Database Services is thought to be the cause of manyWeb site outages.
                    
			            - By Jeffrey  Schwartz
- 04/21/2011
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    VMware Lab's ThinApped vSphere client allows running the client without installing it. 
                    
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Microsoft today released the public beta of Office 365, the company's widely anticipated cloud-based productivity suite.
                    
			            - By Jeffrey  Schwartz
- 04/18/2011
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Microsoft announced on Monday that it plans to deliver its entire Dynamics portfolio as a cloud-based service.
                    
			            - By Jeffrey  Schwartz
- 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
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    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
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    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
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    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
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Microsoft has entered into a partnership with Toyota Motor Co. that would link Microsoft's Windows Azure cloud computing platform with car telematics technologies.