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
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
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
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
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
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