During Microsoft's keynote at Tech-Ed North America conference on Monday, the company focused on the cloud and opened the door for vendors to showcase devices designed to manage applications and services in a hybrid environment.
- By Kathleen Richards
- 05/16/2011
Bloomberg News is reporting this morning that the hackers who attacked Sony's PlayStation Network -- which was down for almost a month -- used Amazon's cloud service to stage their attacks.
Microsoft's cloud-based Business Productivity Online Suite network has undergone multiple outages over the past few days, according to complaints from customers.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 05/12/2011
These technologies may not have been Microsoft originals, but today they bear the Redmond stamp.
Google today announced "Chromebooks," the new name for forthcoming notebook devices that will run its Chrome OS operating system.
According to a recent study by the Ponemon Institute, and sponsored by CA, cloud computing customers and venders may not be paying enough attention to cloud security issues.
- By Kathleen Hickey
- 05/09/2011
Red Hat unveiled two new additions to its cloud service offerings at its Red Hat Summit-JBossWorld event.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 05/05/2011
Everyone is pushing the cloud. But there's a raging debate as to whether the cloud is good or bad for IT. We talked to readers and analysts and other industry experts to find out what the cloud may really mean for your future, plus other implications of this emerging technology.
VMware restored service and apologized for two outages last week that affected some users of its relatively new Cloud Foundry service.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 05/03/2011
Microsoft plans to consolidate many moving parts in its System Center 2012 products this year -- here's your guide to it all.
Scott Guthrie, Microsoft's .NET platform head, will leave that post to run a new Azure Application Platform team as part of a May reorg, Microsoft confirmed today.
- By Michael Desmond
- 05/02/2011
Amazon Web Services on Friday issued an apology for an outage that left certain customer sites down for days, causing permanent data loss in some cases.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 04/29/2011
Google's Apps for Business is changing its terms of service by requiring any organization of 10 or more to subscribe to its paid service.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 04/27/2011
Limitations by ISPs could foil backup service plans.
After a three-day outage, Amazon Web Services has restored service for a majority of its customers.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 04/25/2011
Thinking of breaking into Google's datacenters to steal information? Think again.
Amazon Web Services suffered outages that it attributed to latency and connectivity issues affecting its Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) and Relational Database Service.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 04/21/2011
Microsoft announced on Wednesday that its cloud-based suite of applications has passed muster for government use per FISMA standards.
Microsoft kicked off the week by releasing the public beta of Office 365 today. The new offering is the company's cloud-based productivity suite.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 04/18/2011
The Windows Intune beta will expire on Monday, April 18, Microsoft warned today.