Two entries in this month's security update, released Tuesday, blocks Windows 7 users from connecting to VMware's View Connection Servers, according to a VMware security bulletin.
Microsoft Wednesday released Service Pack 1 for Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 to its equipment manufacturing partners.
In a move key to bridging public and private clouds based on its virtual machines, VMware this week said it will release software that ties internal vSphere VMs to service providers' cloud platforms.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 02/09/2011
Microsoft outlined desktop virtualization tips late last week that IT pros and developers can use to test the compatibility of their Web sites on a single PC.
Hewlett-Packard Co. launches portfolio of private cloud services, hardware and software and announces plans to jump into public cloud hosting.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 01/27/2011
Add transactional e-mail hosting and distribution to the list of services offered by Amazon Web Services.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 01/25/2011
The cloud is the current Next Big Thing in computing, and the Next Big Thing in attacks could be a new breed of economic denial-of-service attacks intended to use up resources and drive up the cost of cloud computing, warns a senior security researcher at Adobe Systems.
- By William Jackson
- 01/20/2011
Amazon Web Services this week took a significant step forward in making it easier for developers to deploy its apps to the company's widely used cloud services.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 01/20/2011
In its bid to take on Salesforce.com and Oracle in the hotly contested market for CRM software-as-a-service (SaaS), Microsoft Monday launched its Dynamics CRM 2011 Online.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 01/18/2011
Rackspace Hosting has turned to Akamai Technologies to provide Web acceleration and its content delivery network (CDN) to Rackspace's cloud and hosted services customers.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 01/13/2011
Amazon Web Services today said it has added two new support plans to its enterprise cloud services and lowered the cost of its existing two support offerings by 50 percent.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 01/06/2011
The Interior Department can't award a noncompetitive contract to Microsoft, a federal judge has ruled.
- By Matthew Weigelt
- 01/05/2011
Rackspace Hosting today said it has acquired Cloudkick, a two-year old startup that offers tools to manage multiple cloud services.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 12/16/2010
Hosting provider OpSource Tuesday added a suite of managed offerings to its cloud services.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 12/15/2010
Rackspace Hosting is looking to make cloud computing appealing to a broader set of customers that might not have the resources or acumen to manage systems and apps in the cloud.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 12/15/2010
F5 Networks is readying software that will let enterprises extend their storage networks to public and private clouds.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 12/14/2010
The Agriculture Department is moving its e-mail, document-sharing, and other collaboration tools to Microsoft's cloud infrastructure to save money and improve efficiency, USDA officials said today.
- By Rutrell Yasin
- 12/09/2010
Billing it as the first database for the cloud, Salesforce.com today is announcing Database.com, targeted at next-generation enterprise apps.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 12/07/2010
Amazon Web Services today launched the beta of a programmable and purportedly scalable hosted Domain Name System service aimed at letting users of its cloud services create, modify and delete DNS zone files.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 12/06/2010
Microsoft today announced that the release candidate of Service Pack 1 for System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 R2 is now available.