The General Services Administration is moving e-mail and collaboration tools to the cloud, becoming the first federal agency to move e-mail to a cloud-based system agencywide, GSA officials said yesterday.
- By Rutrell Yasin
- 12/02/2010
Red Hat today said it has acquired Makara, a provider of software that will help the open source software provider accelerate the build-out its cloud services.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 11/30/2010
Windows HPC Server 2008 R2 SP1 to allow data centers to tap Windows Azure server resources in the cloud.
- By Michael Desmond
- 11/19/2010
Microsoft today announced a new white paper that explains the organizational and standards-based underpinnings of its cloud security efforts.
In a move that will allow users to accelerate the performance of its cloud services, Amazon Web Services has launched Cluster GPU Instances.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 11/15/2010
Quest Software has launched a free cloud-based service that analyses SQL Server trace files and helps determine the source of performance issues.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 11/12/2010
Amazon Web Services has announced the general availability of its content delivery Web service.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 11/09/2010
Hyper-V Cloud, one among several solutions announced at Berlin confab, aims to facilitate private cloud deployments.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 11/08/2010
Redmond is looking to streamline the application process via Windows Azure, but it can't ignore server virtualization or VDI if it wants to overtake VMware.
Redmond's building some serious momentum as more Microsoft customers become familiar with its virtualization and cloud wares.
Microsoft today announced a partnership deal with Cloud.com to help integrate Microsoft's proprietary hypervisor into the OpenStack project.
Government agencies will soon have access to storage, virtualization and Web hosting applications via Apps.gov, the General Service Administration's cloud-based storefront, government officials said yesterday.
- By Rutrell Yasin
- 10/20/2010
A recent survey shows that one of the greatest challenges facing the adoption of cloud computing is that the industry isn't selling it very well.
VMware President and CEO Paul Maritz has bet the farm on cloud computing.
In a move aimed at extending its Open Cloud infrastructure, Citrix Systems Inc. has agreed to acquire VMLogix Inc.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 08/31/2010
Microsoft used the occasion of an open source conference last month to advance its vision of an open cloud by breaking it down into four basic principles.
Microsoft rolled out a second beta of its Windows Intune service on Monday, but availability is limited.
Proponents of cloud computing Thursday gave members of Congress an update on federal initiatives designed to achieve cost-savings and make the computing model more secure for wider agency adoption.
- By Rutrell Yasin
- 07/02/2010
Microsoft today announced plans to introduce new SQL Azure pricing options later this month, based on the platform's improved scalability
New software development lifecycle outlines how to address security threats in the cloud.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 06/15/2010