According to a recent survey by the Ponemon Institute, security is not a top priority for most cloud computing vendors and customers. 
                    
			            - By Kathleen  Hickey
- 05/06/2011
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Red Hat has bolstered its cloud offerings with the release of a Platform as a Service (PaaS) offering for developers and new software to enable Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS). 
                    
			            - By Jeffrey  Schwartz
- 05/04/2011
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    VMware's fledgling Cloud Foundry service experienced two brief outages last week, though the outages pale in comparison to Amazon Web Services' four-day outage that concluded early last week. 
                    
			            - By Jeffrey  Schwartz
- 05/03/2011
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Scott Guthrie, corporate vice president of the .NET Platform at Microsoft, will move to Microsoft's Windows Azure group as part of a May reorg.
                    
			            - By Michael  Desmond
- 05/02/2011
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    A detailed postmortem issued by Amazon Web Services on Friday details the cause of last week's massive cloud outage, which crippled numerous Amazon customers for several days and, for some users, resulted in permanent data loss.
                    
			            - By Jeffrey  Schwartz
- 04/29/2011
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Dell has announced that its recently acquired Boomi software will now include Java Message Service (JMS) connectors for middleware products from IBM, WebMethods, Tibco and Progress Software.
                    
			            - By John K. Waters
- 04/27/2011
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Starting in May, organizations with 10 or more users who want to use Google Apps for Business will need to pay subscription fees. 
                    
			            - By Jeffrey  Schwartz
- 04/27/2011
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Telecommunications giant CenturyLink today said it has agreed to acquire Savvis, a provider of managed hosting and cloud services, for $2.5 billion.
                    
			            - By Jeffrey  Schwartz
- 04/27/2011
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Windows Server 2008 R2, Hyper-V Server 2008 R2 can only perform server virtualization using Intel's Core vPro processors if SP1 is applied.
                    
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Amazon Web Services (AWS) has restored service for a majority of its customers after an outage that began on Thursday left numerous organizations down for more than three days. 
                    
			            - By Jeffrey  Schwartz
- 04/25/2011
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    On Friday, Google gave a rare look into how it locks down one of the datacenters in its global network.
                    
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Latency and connectivity issues affecting Amazon Web Services' Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) and Rational Database Services is thought to be the cause of manyWeb site outages.
                    
			            - By Jeffrey  Schwartz
- 04/21/2011
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Microsoft today released the public beta of Office 365, the company's widely anticipated cloud-based productivity suite.
                    
			            - By Jeffrey  Schwartz
- 04/18/2011
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Keys to Microsoft's first service pack for Hyper-V Server 2008 R2 are dynamic memory and RemoteFX.
                    
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Microsoft announced on Monday that it plans to deliver its entire Dynamics portfolio as a cloud-based service.
                    
			            - By Jeffrey  Schwartz
- 04/12/2011
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Microsoft has debuted the first platform preview of IE 10, just four weeks after the final version of Internet Explorer 9 (IE 9) was released. 
                    
			            - By Michael  Desmond
- 04/12/2011
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    VMware today announced the debut of Cloud Foundry, which the company is touting as the first "open platform as a service," or PaaS.
                    
			            - By Michael  Domingo
- 04/12/2011
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Dell today said it is investing $1 billion in cloud computing under a two-year plan to build out datacenters that will let customers subscribe to virtualized compute infrastructure and storage.
                    
			            - By Jeffrey  Schwartz
- 04/07/2011
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    IBM raised its cloud presence on Thursday with the launch of two new services: SmartCloud, which is designed to enhance IBM's public cloud infrastructure services, and Workload Deployer, the company's new solution for building private clouds.
                    
			            - By Jeffrey  Schwartz
- 04/07/2011
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Microsoft has entered into a partnership with Toyota Motor Co. that would link Microsoft's Windows Azure cloud computing platform with car telematics technologies.