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.
                    
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Revenue was up 13.2 percent in the third quarter from global server sales, according to the IDC research firm.
                    
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    The General Services Administration is moving e-mail and collaboration tools to the cloud, becoming the first federal agency to move e-mail to a cloud-based system agencywide, GSA officials said yesterday. 
                    
			            - By Rutrell  Yasin
- 12/02/2010
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Marathon Technologies last week rolled out software aimed at broadening the availability of fault tolerant computing. 
                    
			            - By Jeffrey  Schwartz
- 10/15/2010
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Citrix Systems is on the move yet again, virtually speaking, having formed a desktop virtualization partnership with Cisco Systems. 
                    
			            - By Dian  Schaffhauser
- 09/09/2010
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Microsoft last week described a different way to use desktop virtualization to maintain legacy applications and still move users to Windows 7.
                    
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Parallels VP Amir Sharif talks virtual infrastructures.
                    
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Microsoft is at VMworld in San Francisco this week, but it can't show off its Hyper-V virtualization product because it competes with VMware's products. 
                    
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    In a move aimed at extending its Open Cloud infrastructure, Citrix Systems Inc. has agreed to acquire VMLogix Inc. 
                    
			            - By Jeffrey  Schwartz
- 08/31/2010
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Microsoft calls Windows 7 its "fastest selling" operating system, but the new OS may represent increased costs and greater logistical pain for IT shops over the next two years.
                    
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    VMware's SpringSource group has released a major upgrade of its Hyperic custom-app management and monitoring technology for virtualized Java applications. 
                    
			            - By John K. Waters
- 08/24/2010
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Microsoft this week provided notice of some upcoming product updates and betas to expect in the coming months. 
                    
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Microsoft used the occasion of an open source conference last month to advance its vision of an open cloud by breaking it down into four basic principles.