In a detailed post-mortem, which included an apology, Amazon Web Services is giving reasons for last week's massive cloud outage that hit its Dublin data center.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 08/18/2011
Hewlett-Packard made several major announcements on Thursday, foremost that it is considering the spinoff or sale of its PC division.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 08/18/2011
Many of Microsoft's cloud service offerings, including Office 365, CRM Online and SkyDrive, have experienced major outages today.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 08/17/2011
Despite persistent concerns about security, developers increasingly prefer cloud-based development tooling, according to a survey by Evans Data Corp.
- By Michael Desmond
- 08/17/2011
Amazon Web Services announced on Tuesday its new GovCloud service, which is geared solely at U.S. federal departments seeking a secure cloud solution that meets specific regulatory and compliance requirements.
Xsigo Systems lays claim to first fully virtualized infrastructure for cloud-optimized data centers.
F5 Networks has bought the intellectual property of Israel-based Crescendo Networks and will be hiring some of its engineering team.
Virtualization management suite broadens scope of platform support by including Microsoft's hypervisor in the mix.
- By Michael Domingo
- 08/10/2011
In a move that strengthens its XenDesktop product against VMware View, Citrix announced its acquisition of the company that carved out market share with its vDesk solution set.
Version 2 of its NetWrix Change Reporter also adds real-time and snapshot reporting capabilities.
- By Michael Domingo
- 08/10/2011
The OpenShift Platform as a Service (PaaS) environment from Red Hat now supports Java Enterprise Edition 6 (Java EE 6), the company announced on Wednesday. The support is the result of an integration with the open source JBoss Application Server 7 (AS7).
- By John K. Waters
- 08/10/2011
CumuLogic, a Java Platform as a Service (PaaS) startup founded by two former Sun Microsystems employees, has released the public beta of its flagship product of the same name.
- By John K. Waters
- 08/08/2011
Lightning strikes in Dublin, Ireland on Sunday resulted in brief outages at separate cloud datacenters run by Amazon and Microsoft.
VMware listened to the growing din around its vSphere 5 vRAM entitlements, and announced an increase of vRAM limits in a blog Wednesday.
- By Michael Domingo
- 08/04/2011
Microsoft has continued interoperability support for Red Hat Linux operating systems running on its Hyper-V hypervisor.
Just over a month after the state of Wyoming wrapped up its wholesale move to Google's cloud, the company has finalized the migration of another public-sector client: the U.S. General Services Administration (GSA).
- By Rutrell Yasin
- 07/28/2011
In a move to extend their partnership on Microsoft's Windows Azure cloud computing platform, Capgemini and Microsoft are planning to address the cloud computing needs of businesses in 22 countries using Azure.
A cloud-focused panel last week hosted by the Brookings Institution examined how developments in encryption technology could strengthen identity and access rights in public clouds.
- By Rutrell Yasin
- 07/20/2011
Amazon announced last week that the Microsoft "license mobility with Software Assurance (SA)" program can also apply to Amazon Web Services (AWS).
Amitabh Srivastava, the former head of Microsoft's Server and Cloud Division (SCD), has been named president of EMC Corp.'s Advanced Storage Division.