The Microsoft marketing meister describes a team effort in Redmond.
                    
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    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
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    How will your systems make the transition? We offer answers to seven questions about cloud migration.
                    
			            - By Eric  Beehler
- 12/07/2010
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    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
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    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
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    VMware President and CEO Paul Maritz has bet the farm on cloud computing.
                    
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    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 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.
                    
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Microsoft rolled out a second beta of its Windows Intune service on Monday, but availability is limited.
                    
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Proponents of cloud computing Thursday gave members of Congress an update on federal initiatives designed to achieve cost-savings and make the computing model more secure for wider agency adoption. 
                    
			            - By Rutrell  Yasin
- 07/02/2010
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Microsoft today announced plans to introduce new SQL Azure pricing options later this month, based on the platform's improved scalability
                    
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    New software development lifecycle outlines how to address security threats in the cloud. 
                    
			            - By Jeffrey  Schwartz
- 06/15/2010
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Microsoft on Monday announced virtualization and other improvements coming with Service Pack 1 for Windows Server 2008 R2 and Windows 7.
                    
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Awhile back, we did a reader survey that I've used as a guideline for the way we shape our editorial product -- the goal being to supply you, the readers, with the content that you find most interesting and useful.
                    
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    A few organizational changes will be coming to Microsoft's Server and Tools Business (STB) segment in July, Microsoft announced this week.