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.
Microsoft announced on Wednesday that its cloud-based suite of applications has passed muster for government use per FISMA standards.
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 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
Software licensing and pricing could become more customer friendly if some trends take hold, according to an April Forrester Research report.
The Windows Intune beta will expire on Monday, April 18, Microsoft warned today.
The U.S. General Services Administration issued a statement suggesting that Google Apps for Government is FISMA certified, but that it was reviewing some "additional controls."
- By Kevin McCaney
- 04/14/2011
Microsoft will deliver its entire Dynamics portfolio as cloud-based services, company executives said today.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 04/11/2011
A Microsoft lawyer on Monday suggested that Google's claims of having achieved U.S. government security certification for its Apps for Government products are false.
- By Kevin McCaney
- 04/11/2011
Microsoft and the Toyota Motor Co. have embarked on a strategic partnership on car telematics technologies that will tap into Microsoft's Windows Azure cloud computing platform.
Dell today said it plans to spend $1B in cloud technology over its next fiscal year.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 04/07/2011
IBM today accelerated its cloud push with the announcement of enhanced infrastructure services and a new private cloud solution.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 04/07/2011
The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers yesterday kicked off a new "cloud computing initiative," with an initial focus on cloud portability and interoperability standardization.
- By Rutrell Yasin
- 04/05/2011
Cloud computing relieves some of the security burden, but you still have an active role in managing access, securing communications and ensuring data protection.
- By Joshua Hoffman
- 04/04/2011
The three vendors launched a demo to promote the open source cloud platform.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 03/30/2011