Exchange hoster Intermedia has been acquired by private equity firm Oak Hill Partners for an undisclosed amount.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 05/26/2011
Developer of Java/.NET interoperability solutions now supporting interop in the cloud.
- By John K. Waters
- 05/25/2011
At this week's Microsoft Tech-Ed conference in Atlanta, Kemp Technologies released its Virtual LoadMaster Exchange for Hyper-V, a load-balancer designed to work exclusively with Exchange 2010 and Microsoft's hypervisor.
Adding to Microsoft's string of public-sector cloud deals, the city of San Francisco announced plans to migrate 60 departments and agencies to Exchange Online over the next 12 months.
Microsoft officially kicked off its Tech-Ed North America conference on Monday with a keynote that focused, in part, on moving to the cloud and managing services and applications in hybrid environments and across multiple devices.
- By Kathleen Richards
- 05/17/2011
Hosting solutions providers able to manage various cloud infrastructures from Hyper-V.
- By Michael Domingo
- 05/16/2011
A report this morning from Bloomberg News points to hackers using Amazon's Elastic Computer Cloud as a staging area for the attack on Sony's PlayStation Network -- which led the service to be shut down for almost a month.
Improvements to Exchange 2010 that will avoid supported scenarios when running the software in a virtualized environment was announced by Microsoft at Tech-Ed 2011, currently underway in Atlanta, Ga.
Shavlik Technologies, a provider of security and management software for desktops and servers, will be acquired by virtualization and cloud provider VMware, the companies announced on Monday morning.
Microsoft's Business Productivity Online Services (BPOS) experienced multiple outages this week, the company admitted on Thursday.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 05/13/2011
Google on Wednesday announced "Chromebooks," the upcoming line of notebook computers that will run the company's Chrome operating system.
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