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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."

VMTurbo Manages the Virtualization Stack, Top to Bottom

VMTurbo upgrades its virtualization management appliance with new application performance monitoring system.

FalconStor NSS is VMware-Certified

Storage company gets its virtualized storage solution certifed to work with VMware's latest product releases.

Microsoft Announces 'Cloud CRM for Less' Program

A Microsoft program unveiled on Monday called "Cloud CRM for Less" would pay customers $150 per user seat for switching to Microsoft Dynamics CRM Online from competitors SAP, Salesforce.com and Oracle.

VMware Takes Database Development to the Cloud

vFabric Director to support open-source Postgres SQL database initially; it's available now at CloudFoundry.com.

Cloud Licensing Takes Center Stage in Microsoft-VMware Rivalry

Microsoft revved up its cloud marketing message on Monday with the release of a whitepaper titled "Microsoft Private Cloud: A Comparative Look at Functionality, Benefits and Economics."

Virsto Powers Up First Storage Hypervisor

The company claims its Virsto for VDI plays very well with VMware's vSphere.

With Recover2Cloud, Disaster Relief Comes to Cloud Services

Sungard provides what it calls the first cloud disaster recovery service of its kind for VMware VMs.

vCloud Express Gets Monitoring Capabilities

Monitoring, reporting on public cloud services provided through partnership with Goliath Technologies.

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