In an surprising move, Microsoft on Tuesday made its consumer-oriented SkyDrive cloud storage service available for Apple mobile devices, as well its own Windows Phone devices.
Microsoft issued the fourth-quarter service release of its Windows Azure cloud computing platform on Saturday, with an emphasis on open source interoperability improvements, expanded database capacity and "simplified pricing."
Oracle this week announced the forthcoming availability of Oracle WebLogic Server 12c, a major update of the company's WebLogic app server and the cornerstone of its Cloud Application Foundation.
- By John K. Waters
- 12/01/2011
Two of Microsoft's cloud-based services, Office 365 and SkyDrive, underwent significant updates on Tuesday.
Joyent has signed on to VMware's Community Leads program to lend its Node.js expertise to that company's Cloud Foundry project.
- By John K. Waters
- 11/17/2011
Fujitsu this week launched a hybrid cloud offering that lets enterprises tie apps running on-premises to those running on Microsoft's Windows Azure service.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 11/17/2011
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