Microsoft on Tuesday announced it has agreed to acquire Skype for $8.5 billion, making it the largest acquisition in Microsoft's history.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 05/10/2011
According to a recent survey by the Ponemon Institute, security is not a top priority for most cloud computing vendors and customers.
- By Kathleen Hickey
- 05/06/2011
Red Hat has bolstered its cloud offerings with the release of a Platform as a Service (PaaS) offering for developers and new software to enable Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS).
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 05/04/2011
VMware's fledgling Cloud Foundry service experienced two brief outages last week, though the outages pale in comparison to Amazon Web Services' four-day outage that concluded early last week.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 05/03/2011
Scott Guthrie, corporate vice president of the .NET Platform at Microsoft, will move to Microsoft's Windows Azure group as part of a May reorg.
- By Michael Desmond
- 05/02/2011
A detailed postmortem issued by Amazon Web Services on Friday details the cause of last week's massive cloud outage, which crippled numerous Amazon customers for several days and, for some users, resulted in permanent data loss.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 04/29/2011
Dell has announced that its recently acquired Boomi software will now include Java Message Service (JMS) connectors for middleware products from IBM, WebMethods, Tibco and Progress Software.
- By John K. Waters
- 04/27/2011
Starting in May, organizations with 10 or more users who want to use Google Apps for Business will need to pay subscription fees.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 04/27/2011
Telecommunications giant CenturyLink today said it has agreed to acquire Savvis, a provider of managed hosting and cloud services, for $2.5 billion.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 04/27/2011
Windows Server 2008 R2, Hyper-V Server 2008 R2 can only perform server virtualization using Intel's Core vPro processors if SP1 is applied.
Amazon Web Services (AWS) has restored service for a majority of its customers after an outage that began on Thursday left numerous organizations down for more than three days.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 04/25/2011
On Friday, Google gave a rare look into how it locks down one of the datacenters in its global network.
Latency and connectivity issues affecting Amazon Web Services' Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) and Rational Database Services is thought to be the cause of manyWeb site outages.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 04/21/2011
Microsoft today released the public beta of Office 365, the company's widely anticipated cloud-based productivity suite.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 04/18/2011
Keys to Microsoft's first service pack for Hyper-V Server 2008 R2 are dynamic memory and RemoteFX.
Microsoft announced on Monday that it plans to deliver its entire Dynamics portfolio as a cloud-based service.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 04/12/2011
Microsoft has debuted the first platform preview of IE 10, just four weeks after the final version of Internet Explorer 9 (IE 9) was released.
- By Michael Desmond
- 04/12/2011
VMware today announced the debut of Cloud Foundry, which the company is touting as the first "open platform as a service," or PaaS.
- By Michael Domingo
- 04/12/2011
Dell today said it is investing $1 billion in cloud computing under a two-year plan to build out datacenters that will let customers subscribe to virtualized compute infrastructure and storage.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 04/07/2011
IBM raised its cloud presence on Thursday with the launch of two new services: SmartCloud, which is designed to enhance IBM's public cloud infrastructure services, and Workload Deployer, the company's new solution for building private clouds.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 04/07/2011