Microsoft today announced some forthcoming licensing changes designed to benefit its Software Assurance customers, as well as its service provider partners.
Licensing Office 365 was the topic of a Directions on Microsoft talk last week, which may be of interest to IT pros.
Microsoft added an improved way to move virtualized applications to its Windows Azure cloud as part of the System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2012 beta release.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 03/24/2011
Microsoft announced the availability of its Windows Intune PC management and security service today.
Microsoft eliminated a BlackBerry e-mail hosting cost for some customers, and it may have also inked a broader cloud data storage deal with Research In Motion.
Underscoring that cloud computing will be integral to its strategy moving forward, Hewlett-Packard Co. plans to launch a public cloud service, company CEO Leo Apotheker said Monday at the company's annual analyst meeting.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 03/15/2011
VMware's acquisition of Integrien adds to vCenter a slew of new capabilities for managing capacity planning, change management -- backed by performance analytics -- in physical and cloud environments.
Salesforce.com announced on Thursday that its service desk app now natively supports Facebook social monitoring.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 03/04/2011
Looking to extend its cloud services to customers in the Asia-Pacific region, Amazon Web Services today said it has opened a datacenter in Tokyo.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 03/02/2011
Windows Intune, Microsoft's cloud-based systems management tool that will give midsize IT departments without Software Assurance agreements a back door into some formerly exclusive SA benefits, will formally launch on March 23.
- By Scott Bekker
- 02/28/2011
Microsoft fired back at Google on Thursday, reacting to a recently released Google plug-in for Microsoft Office that enables document sharing and collaboration.
To ease the development and deployment of apps to the cloud, Amazon Web Services today launched its CloudFormation.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 02/25/2011
Google today announced the global availability of a free plug-in to Microsoft Office that enables document sharing and collaboration.
Cisco is calling it quits on its cloud-based e-mail service that has been available for testing for the past year.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 02/23/2011
A Washington superior court judge enforced a temporary restraining order that prevents a former Microsoft employee from being hired for an executive sales position at Salesforce.com today.
A panel of defense and civilian agency CIOs discussed the notion that moving applications to a cloud computing provider does not mean giving up control of the data -- as long as agencies get a guarantee in writing.
- By Rutrell Yasin
- 02/23/2011
Microsoft confirmed last week that it will not release CardSpace 2.0, its claims-based identity solution for clients.
Google delivered a truckload of free Cr-48 laptops to Astoria High School in Astoria, Ore. earlier this month
Microsoft filed a motion with a Washington State Superior Court on Thursday that accuses Matt Miszewski, former market development manager for Microsoft's government group, of stealing 600 MB of documents the company considered confidential when taking a new position at Salesforce.com.
Microsoft today announced the appointment of Satya Nadella as president of the company's Server and Tools Business.