Microsoft rolled out its fourth-quarter service release of Windows Azure on Saturday.
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A Microsoft technical fellow, along with two other individuals, are joining Parallels as executives to support the cloud services enablement and desktop virtualization company's global growth goals, the company announced today.
- By Scott Bekker
- 12/01/2011
Microsoft's cloud-based Office 365 and SkyDrive will be receiving major updates, according to an announcement made today.
Enterprises can connect apps running on-premises to those running on Microsoft's Windows Azure service with Fujitsu's newly released hybrid cloud offering.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 11/17/2011
Veteran Microsoft reporter Mary Jo Foley was recently questioned by Canadian border guards about "the future of IT."
Microsoft today rolled out a release candidate version of its System Center Operations Manager 2012 solution.
An executive at Microsoft's Server and Tools Division offered some perspectives on Microsoft's cloud vision on Monday.
Google has reportedly inked an agreement to provide General Motors Corp. with the Google Apps cloud-based e-mail and collaboration suite for more than 100,000 employees.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 11/04/2011
SMEStorage provides a convenient, common place for users to park cloud data stored with multiple vendors.
- By Derek Schauland
- 11/01/2011
Microsoft released new test versions of some of its System Center 2012 management applications this week.
Citrix Systems on Wednesday unleashed a product blitz at its Synergy partner conference in Barcelona.
- By Kurt Mackie, Jeffrey Schwartz
- 10/27/2011
Research In Motion today initiated an open beta trial of a new BlackBerry service that works with Microsoft Office 365.
Oracle today said it has agreed to acquire RightNow Technologies Inc. for $1.5 billion.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 10/24/2011
Microsoft issued an update today that enables Lync for Mac 2011 to connect to Office 365.
Google's contract to provide the city of Los Angeles with cloud-based applications faces completion issues after nearly two years.
Oracle today said it has agreed to acquire Endeca Technologies Inc., a provider of software called MDEX Engine that allows users to gather and analyze unstructured data.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 10/18/2011