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
Storage company gets its virtualized storage solution certifed to work with VMware's latest product releases.
- By Michael Domingo
- 08/31/2011
Dell Cloud takes VMware's vCloud Datacenter Services to its customers who want a piece of the cloud.
- By Michael Domingo
- 08/31/2011
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."
- By John K. Waters
- 08/31/2011
VMTurbo upgrades its virtualization management appliance with new application performance monitoring system.
- By Michael Domingo
- 08/31/2011
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.
- By Scott Bekker
- 08/30/2011
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."
The company claims its Virsto for VDI plays very well with VMware's vSphere.
- By Michael Domingo
- 08/30/2011