Not everything was profitable, though: OEM business dropped 13 percent.
The offer applies to users all the way back to Windows 7, and includes Windows Phone.
The company provides $300 in free credits to test out the new service.
The latest move to help companies test the software-defined networking (SDN) waters comes from Brocade Communications Systems Inc., which yesterday announced a free, one-year license for its new Vyatta Controller.
Also coming in 2015: advanced networking services.
Among the new features is an expected second browser that will run alongside Internet Explorer.
The emerging software-defined networking (SDN) technology needs to address higher-level networking functionalities in order to help enterprises realize their goal of reduced operating expenses, according to a report from F5 Networks Inc.
The former Workspace Services gets a cloud makeover with a unified management UI.
Open Virtual Network is aimed at users of Open vSwitch and the OpenStack cloud platform.
Amazon Web Services (AWS) Inc. this week launched its newest EC2 instance category, C4, based on the Intel Haswell processor.
The latest iteration promises dramatic increases in I/O speeds.
Amid the software-defined networking (SDN) hype and wide-ranging predictions about huge growth and imminent industry transformation comes data from a new Piper Jaffray survey indicating prognosticators may be a little too optimistic -- at least in terms of timing.
The figures come via IDC's new quarterly cloud infrastructure tracker.
Big Switch Networks Inc. capped off a big year in the software-defined networking (SDN) industry by announcing its flagship networking fabric was awarded certification for Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 5, laying the groundwork for OpenStack cloud computing implementations.
“Heisenbug” adds ARM as its primary architecture and enhances cloud and virtualization support.
- By Christa Ayer
- 12/20/2013
Performance tops the list of improvements.
- By Christa Ayer
- 12/20/2013
New traffic analysis tools help enterprises and service providers monitor, manage, and protect networks.
- By Christa Ayer
- 12/18/2013
Cisco strengthens partnership with VMware via Desktone technology in Cisco UCS platform.
- By Michael Domingo
- 12/18/2013
Lieberman Software makes version of its Enterprise Random Password Manager available on Windows Azure.
- By Christa Ayer
- 12/17/2013
Do you have to choose between security and performance? F-Secure says no.
- By Christa Ayer
- 12/16/2013