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
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.