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
Microsoft has entered into a partnership with Toyota Motor Co. that would link Microsoft's Windows Azure cloud computing platform with car telematics technologies.
Unified communications adoption in the United States has doubled over the past year, and many organizations are moving their UC implementations to the cloud.
The vast majority of datacenter managers say their budgets are not increasing this year, according to a study released last week. However, yet another study suggests overall IT spending is on the rise.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 04/04/2011
During the Microsoft Hosting Summit being held in Bellevue, Wash. this week, Microsoft outlined some planned licensing changes that will help its service provider partners and Software Assurance (SA) customers.
Vendors build proof-of-concept environment on top of OpenStack's cloud OS to show customers what's possible in the cloud.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 03/30/2011
Cisco Systems today said it has agreed to acquire newScale Inc., a supplier of software that provides self-service provisioning of cloud-based services.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 03/29/2011
VMware customers looking for openness in cloud solutions might see vSphere support in the forthcoming OpenStack Compute "Cactus" release as a opportunity.
- By Michael Domingo
- 03/28/2011
Acknowledging that some enterprise customers don't want to share computing resources, Amazon Web Services (AWS) today launched what it calls EC2 Dedicated Instances.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 03/28/2011
Systems Center Virtual Machine Manager 2012 will include new feature that will allow Windows apps not designed for Windows Azure to be deployed on Microsoft's cloud platform.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 03/24/2011
Microsoft rolled out the final release-to-Web (RTW) version of its Windows Intune PC management and security service on Thursday, during the Microsoft Management Summit in Las Vegas.
Microsoft unveiled its System Center 2012 product line on Tuesday at its Microsoft Management Summit. As part of the announcement, the company also made available the beta of System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2012.
According to a Bloomberg article, Microsoft plans to eliminate the e-mail hosting cost for some BlackBerry customers, and may also be on the brink of a cloud storage deal with BlackBerry maker Research In Motion (RIM)
Target turns to Microsoft's hypervisor technology to reduce physical servers and save on power and maintenance costs among its 1,755 U.S. stores.
The second beta of Microsoft's rapid business application development tool, Visual Studio LightSwitch, was made available for download this week.
- By Michael Desmond
- 03/17/2011
At Monday's annual analyst meeting, HP CEO Leo Apotheker announced that Hewlett-Packard Co. plans to launch a public cloud service.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 03/15/2011
The Apple iPad got a major enterprise nod this week from virtualization giant VMware Inc.
- By Scott Bekker
- 03/14/2011
Customers who use Microsoft's Desktop Optimization Pack can now download the latest version that includes updated application virtualization and desktop virtualization tools.
San Francisco-based Wavemaker, provider of a graphical development platform for Java-based Web and cloud applications, based on the Spring development enviornment, will be acquired by VMware, the company announced recently.
- By John K. Waters
- 03/09/2011