In another example of Microsoft's outreach to open source communities and projects, the company announced on Tuesday it is collaborating with team members of the OpenNebula project to add Windows Server Hyper-V support.
In an attempt to upend the tablet market, Web retailer Amazon.com launched its Kindle Fire tablet in New York on Wednesday.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 09/28/2011
Windows Live will be a key element in Windows 8's roaming and single sign-on capabilities, Microsoft recently revealed.
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.
- By Michael Domingo
- 09/22/2011
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 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).
- By Kevin McCaney
- 09/16/2011
Rackspace will be adding the open source cloud platform OpenStack over its entire network, according to a company announcement this week.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 09/16/2011
VMware has released upgrades to two virtualization platforms, VMware Workstation 8 and VMware Fusion.
- By Michael Domingo
- 09/15/2011
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.
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 has revealed that a DNS error resulted in an outage last Thursday of several Microsoft Live services, including SkyDrive, Hotmail, Office 365 and MSN.
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.
- By Michael Domingo, Chris Paoli
- 09/09/2011
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 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.
According to an announcement made today by Microsoft, Hyper-V hypervisor will be included in the company's next operating system.
Hewlett-Packard Co. announced on Wednesday that it is giving select beta testers early access to its forthcoming Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) portfolio.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 09/07/2011
The next version of Windows Intune, Microsoft's cloud service for systems management, will become generally available starting Oct. 17, the company announced Tuesday.
- By Scott Bekker
- 09/06/2011
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.
Trend Micro, SolarWinds, F5 demonstrate new and improved solutions around the VMware tool ecosystem
- By Michael Domingo
- 09/01/2011