Microsoft Server and Tools President Satya Nadella said his focus is to make it easier for enterprises to adopt multiple Microsoft technologies that will provide a hybrid public/private cloud solution.
                    
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    According to an announcement made today by Microsoft, Hyper-V hypervisor will be included in the company's next operating system.
                    
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Hewlett-Packard Co. announced on Wednesday that it is giving select beta testers early access to its forthcoming Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) portfolio. 
                    
			            - By Jeffrey  Schwartz
- 09/07/2011
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    The next version of Windows Intune, Microsoft's cloud service for systems management, will become generally available starting Oct. 17, the company announced Tuesday.
                    
			            - By Scott  Bekker
- 09/06/2011
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Microsoft has released version 1.3.0 of the Windows Azure Toolkit for Windows Phone and version 1.2.1 of the Windows Azure Toolkit for iOS. 
                    
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Trend Micro, SolarWinds, F5 demonstrate new and improved solutions around the VMware tool ecosystem 
                    
			            - By Michael  Domingo
- 09/01/2011
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Dell Cloud takes VMware's vCloud Datacenter Services to its customers who want a piece of the cloud. 
                    
			            - By Michael  Domingo
- 08/31/2011
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    During his keynote at the annual Dreamforce conference taking place this week in San Francisco, Salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff left little doubt about the direction his company is taking: "We're were born cloud, and now we've been reborn social."
                    
			            - By John K. Waters
- 08/31/2011
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    VMTurbo upgrades its virtualization management appliance with new application performance monitoring system.
                    
			            - By Michael  Domingo
- 08/31/2011
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Storage company gets its virtualized storage solution certifed to work with VMware's latest product releases.
                    
			            - By Michael  Domingo
- 08/31/2011
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    A Microsoft program unveiled on Monday called "Cloud CRM for Less" would pay customers $150 per user seat for switching to Microsoft Dynamics CRM Online from competitors SAP, Salesforce.com and Oracle.
                    
			            - By Scott  Bekker
- 08/30/2011
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    vFabric Director to support open-source Postgres SQL database initially; it's available now at CloudFoundry.com. 
                    
			            - By Michael  Domingo
- 08/30/2011
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Microsoft revved up its cloud marketing message on Monday with the release of a whitepaper titled "Microsoft Private Cloud: A Comparative Look at Functionality, Benefits and Economics."
                    
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    The company claims its Virsto for VDI plays very well with VMware's vSphere.
                    
			            - By Michael  Domingo
- 08/30/2011
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Sungard provides what it calls the first cloud disaster recovery service of its kind for VMware VMs.
                    
			            - By Michael  Domingo
- 08/29/2011
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Monitoring, reporting on public cloud services provided through partnership with Goliath Technologies.
                    
			            - By Michael  Domingo
- 08/29/2011
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    AppSense partners with Lakeside Software to help customers figure out how virtualization can impact computing environment. 
                    
			            - By Michael  Domingo
- 08/29/2011
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    VMware's newest hypervisor upgrade officially released before the company's VMworld Conference taking place next week in Las Vegas.
                    
			            - By Michael  Domingo
- 08/26/2011
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    eXo's Cloud IDE development tool, which the company touts as the industry's only cloud-based integrated development environment (IDE), now supports VMware's Cloud Foundry Platform as a Service (PaaS).
                    
			            - By John K. Waters
- 08/25/2011
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    VMware on Wednesday released the beta of Micro Cloud Foundry, a complete version of its Cloud Foundry Platform as a Service (PaaS) designed to run on developers' PCs or Macs.
                    
			            - By John K. Waters
- 08/24/2011