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.
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