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
To encourage U.S. government agencies to adopt cloud computing technologies, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has issued a "roadmap" draft for public comment.
- By Rutrell Yasin
- 11/03/2011
Citrix Systems rolled out several new products on Wednesday during its Synergy partner conference in Barcelona.
- By Kurt Mackie, Jeffrey Schwartz
- 10/27/2011
A collaboration between Microsoft and Amazon would allow developers to test SQL Server 2012, previously code-named "Denali," in Amazon's Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2).
Zend Technologies recently rolled out phpcloud.com, a platform and partner ecosystem aimed at facilitating the development and delivery of PHP-based Web apps.
- By John K. Waters
- 10/25/2011
Oracle announced today pans to purchase RightNow Technologies Inc. for $1.5 billion.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 10/24/2011
Cisco and Citrix Systems have formed an alliance that has them working together to deliver Citrix-supported Cisco hardware and devices to Cisco's customers
- By Michael Domingo
- 10/20/2011
The acquisition gives Citrix a foot in a crowded cloud storage segment competing with Dropbox, Apple and others.
- By Michael Domingo
- 10/20/2011
Verizon said it's working with VMware to offer phones that can make the transition from home to work without hiccups or headaches for IT.
- By Michael Domingo
- 10/20/2011
Google's contract to provide cloud-based applications to the city of Los Angeles hit a snag this week, after the city expressed concerns over the security of Google's offerings.
"Wave 2," the name of the second generation of Microsoft's Windows Intune cloud-based PC management service, was released as scheduled on Monday.
IBM this week fleshed out its SmartCloud public and private cloud portfolio as it looks to capture what it is predicting will be a growing base of enterprise customers.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 10/14/2011
Microsoft outlined some of the new features coming in the next release of SQL Azure -- which the company said will arrive in Q4 2011 -- during Day 2 of the PASS Summit, taking place this week in Seattle.
Google Cloud SQL, which adds a MySQL database Web service to Google's cloud-based App Engine development stack, is now available in a free preview version, Google announced this week.
Oracle CEO Larry Ellison took the stage on Wednesday at the annual Oracle OpenWorld conference to unveil the Oracle Public Cloud, a Platform as a Service (PaaS) designed to run the company's Fusion Applications, which are now generally available.
- By John K. Waters
- 10/06/2011
Apple said on Tuesday that its previously announced iCloud service will become available next week, though any news about the personal cloud service was overshadowed by the launch of a new iPhone that same day.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 10/04/2011
In an announcement made online by Piston Computing this week, the company will start offering an operating system based on the open source OpenStack platform for private clouds.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 09/30/2011
Engine Yard, a provider of Platform as a Service (PaaS) for Ruby on Rails, announced this week it now supports JRuby applications on its cloud platform.
- By John K. Waters
- 09/29/2011