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Microsoft Using Cloud To Enable Single Sign-On in Windows 8

Windows Live will be a key element in Windows 8's roaming and single sign-on capabilities, Microsoft recently revealed.

Microsoft Cloud Exec Leaves Company for EA

Rajat Taneja, most recently the vice president of Microsoft's Commerce Division, is leaving Microsoft for game software publisher Electronic Arts (EA), where he will be CTO.

Microsoft Partners Already Implementing Hyper-V 3 Virtual Switch

Microsoft's new extensible virtual switch in Hyper-V 3.0 for Windows Server 8 has already been implemented by 5nine, Broadcom, Cisco, inMon and NEC, among others.

Amazon Web Services Gets FISMA Approval

Amazon Web Services has received approval from the General Services Administration (GSA) to provide cloud services to government agencies in compliance with the Federal Information Security Management Act (FISMA).

OpenStack Comes to Rackspace

Rackspace will be adding the open source cloud platform OpenStack over its entire network, according to a company announcement this week.

VMware Workstation 8, VMware Fusion 4 Released

VMware has released upgrades to two virtualization platforms, VMware Workstation 8 and VMware Fusion.

Microsoft Opens Up on 'Cloud-Optimized' Windows Server 8 at Build

During his Build conference keynote on Wednesday, Satya Nadella, president of Microsoft's Server and Tools Business, called Windows Server 8 "the most cloud-optimized OS" being developed by Microsoft.

Microsoft Talks Up Windows Azure Improvements at Build

Satya Nadella, president of Microsoft's Server and Tools Business, made the case for Windows Azure to independent software vendors (ISVs) during his Wednesday keynote at Build, as well as detailed some recent improvements to the cloud-based platform.

DNS Error Downs Several Microsoft Cloud Services

Microsoft has revealed that a DNS error resulted in an outage last Thursday of several Microsoft Live services, including SkyDrive, Hotmail, Office 365 and MSN.

System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2012 Now at RC Stage

SCVMM 2012 RC includes many new features for hypervisor creation/management, resource optimization and service lifecycle management. It's also on a new schedule for general availability in early 2012.

VMware, Cisco Announce Virtual Extensible LAN for the Cloud

VMware and Cisco have debuted the new Virtual Extensible Local Area Network (VXLAN) architecture, which forms the basis of a scalable LAN for the cloud.

Microsoft Exec: Hybrid IT Cloud Future For Enterprise

Microsoft Server and Tools President Satya Nadella said his focus is to make it easier for enterprises to adopt multiple Microsoft technologies that will provide a hybrid public/private cloud solution.

Hyper-V Not Disappearing from Windows 8, Microsoft Confirms

According to an announcement made today by Microsoft, Hyper-V hypervisor will be included in the company's next operating system.

HP Opens Public Cloud Offering to Beta Testers

Hewlett-Packard Co. announced on Wednesday that it is giving select beta testers early access to its forthcoming Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) portfolio.

Microsoft To Release Next Version of Windows Intune in Oct.

The next version of Windows Intune, Microsoft's cloud service for systems management, will become generally available starting Oct. 17, the company announced Tuesday.

Microsoft Updates Azure Toolkits for Windows Phone, iOS

Microsoft has released version 1.3.0 of the Windows Azure Toolkit for Windows Phone and version 1.2.1 of the Windows Azure Toolkit for iOS.

End of VMworld Product Roundup

Trend Micro, SolarWinds, F5 demonstrate new and improved solutions around the VMware tool ecosystem

Dude, Dell's in the Cloud Business

Dell Cloud takes VMware's vCloud Datacenter Services to its customers who want a piece of the cloud.

Cloud Giant Salesforce.com Touts Enterprise Social Network Platform 'Chatter'

During his keynote at the annual Dreamforce conference taking place this week in San Francisco, Salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff left little doubt about the direction his company is taking: "We're were born cloud, and now we've been reborn social."

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