Acquisition of Virsto and its virtual storage solutions will help improve the performance of VMware's products.
Microsoft has confirmed that Office 2013 and Office 365 will be generally available in March.
Cubby provides 5GB, with a professional version allowing syncing across devices without the cloud.
- By Michael Domingo
- 02/06/2013
Microsoft recently lowered the price for its Windows Azure SQL Reporting Services, which is used for business intelligence-type applications.
Microsoft announced new consumer, student and small business editions, and is fortifying its connection through newer cloud connections.
Virtualization and cloud behemoth VMware followed up good news of rising revenues in its latest earnings report with some bad news on impending layoffs.
- By Michael Domingo
- 01/29/2013
Version 2 has deeper integration with VMware tools, including vCloud Director and Amazon EC2 support.
- By Michael Domingo
- 01/23/2013
Latest upgrade also adds MySQL Enterprise as a database repository option, plus a slew of new features and improvements.
- By John K. Waters
- 01/23/2013
VMware CTO Steve Herrod blogged earlier today that he is resigning his post at the company.
- By Michael Domingo
- 01/16/2013
Red Hat's latest 5 point release finally makes the Hyper-V connection and improves security and supports a wider variety of hardware.
- By Michael Domingo
- 01/16/2013
In an e-mail to staff and students on Wednesday, the University of California, Berkeley announced that it is switching to Google Apps for Education for cloud-based e-mail and calendaring, not Microsoft's Office 365 suite.
In an surprising move, Microsoft on Tuesday made its consumer-oriented SkyDrive cloud storage service available for Apple mobile devices, as well its own Windows Phone devices.
Microsoft issued the fourth-quarter service release of its Windows Azure cloud computing platform on Saturday, with an emphasis on open source interoperability improvements, expanded database capacity and "simplified pricing."
Oracle this week announced the forthcoming availability of Oracle WebLogic Server 12c, a major update of the company's WebLogic app server and the cornerstone of its Cloud Application Foundation.
- By John K. Waters
- 12/01/2011
Two of Microsoft's cloud-based services, Office 365 and SkyDrive, underwent significant updates on Tuesday.
Joyent has signed on to VMware's Community Leads program to lend its Node.js expertise to that company's Cloud Foundry project.
- By John K. Waters
- 11/17/2011
Fujitsu this week launched a hybrid cloud offering that lets enterprises tie apps running on-premises to those running on Microsoft's Windows Azure service.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 11/17/2011
An executive within Microsoft's Server and Tools division gave investors some perspective on Microsoft's cloud vision on Monday, at the CLSA Asia USA Forum in San Francisco.
Consumer tech retailing giant Best Buy has agreed to buy IT outsourcer and cloud provider mindSHIFT Technologies for $167 million.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 11/07/2011
According to a report published Friday by The Wall Street Journal, Google has inked a deal with General Motors Corp. to move the automaker's 100,000 employees to the cloud-based Google Apps suite.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 11/04/2011