Cloud computing security concerns outweigh the potential cost savings by a two to one margin, according to a recent survey of government and industry IT professionals by nCircle.
- By William Jackson
- 07/11/2011
Microsoft announced on Thursday that it has improved the document collaboration capabilities in its Word Web App service on SkyDrive.
Amazon Web Services today said it is removing the fees for inbound data transfers and lowering outbound data transfer among all its cloud services, including its CloudFront content delivery network.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 06/30/2011
The Google Apps team took on Office 365 the day before Microsoft had its big cloud launch.
- By Scott Bekker
- 06/29/2011
Office 365 is now officially available in 40 markets around the world, Microsoft announced on Tuesday at a New York launch event.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 06/28/2011
Organizations looking to move to Office 365 got some of the finer points discussed during a Thursday Directions on Microsoft talk.
The state governor's office announced this week that Wyoming is the first state to "go Google."
An outage affected Microsoft's cloud-based Exchange messaging service, which went down on Wednesday across North America.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 06/22/2011
Simon Crosby blogged that he's joining two other founders at Bromium; company will focus on security and virtualization solutions.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 06/22/2011
Microsoft's new president of the Server and Tools Business Division answered some cloud questions today at the GigaOM Structure event, which is happening today and tomorrow in San Francisco.
Microsoft plans to change its Windows Azure pricing next month, offering free inbound data transfers during peak hours, in addition to off hours.
According to a newly released forecast by IDC, the IT segment is projected to grow its spending in public cloud services by a compound annual growth rate of 27.6 percent over the next four years.
Microsoft upgraded its free consumer-oriented Windows Live SkyDrive personal cloud storage and file-sharing service on Monday.
Tapping unified communications (UC) services over a public cloud sounds like a good idea, but mid-to-large U.S. enterprises remain somewhat reluctant to go that route, according to an industry-commissioned study announced today.
Should you build you own private cloud or buy someone else's? What about doing both?
- By Greg Shields
- 06/08/2011
Fujitsu expects to begin offering commercial cloud services in August from its datacenter in Japan that uses Microsoft's Windows Azure platform.
Microsoft took to Twitter this morning to announce Office 365, the successor to Microsoft's Business Productivity Online Suite with desktop productivity functionality added, will be available for all on June 28.
- By Scott Bekker
- 06/03/2011
Private equity firm Oak Hill Partners has acquired Exchange hoster Intermedia for an undisclosed sum and has named former Savvis CEO Phil Koen, as its new chairman and chief executive.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 05/26/2011
San Francisco plans to migrate 60 departments and agencies to Microsoft Exchange Online over the next 12 moths.
While the cloud was turned down this year, Microsoft's Windows Phone 7 took the center stage.