Amazon Web Services (AWS) today launched its EC2 Dedicated Instances in response to the fact that some enterprise customers don't want to share computing resources across the cloud.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 03/28/2011
Microsoft hasn't officially announced Office 365, but pricing and licensing were topics at a Directions on Microsoft talk.
Beta version of Virtual Machine Manager adds Server App-V, which lets Windows apps not designed for Windows Azure to work on Microsoft's cloud platform.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 03/24/2011
A superior court judge in Washington state today enforced a temporary restraining order that prevents a former Microsoft employee from being hired for an executive sales position at Salesforce.com.
Cardspace 2.0, Microsoft's claims-based identity solution for clients, will not be released, according to a company announcement last week.
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.
Oracle today released software aimed at letting organizations build private clouds by adding elasticity to their applications via a clustered file system.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 02/07/2011
IBM made a few announcements at its Lotusphere 2011 event today, including some upcoming social networking improvements plus the debut of a new cloud-based productivity suite called "LotusLive Symphony."
Looking to accelerate its footprint as a provider of cloud and enterprise managed services, Verizon Communications Inc. today said it has agreed to acquire Terremark Worldwide Inc. for $1.4 billion.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 01/28/2011
Microsoft filed a lawsuit on Wednesday against a former general manager working in the public sector market who left for an executive position at Salesforce.com.
Future ARM-based servers could reduce power costs in the datacenter, helping cloud service providers such as Microsoft.
Microsoft announced today that it has rolled out a new support lifecycle policy for its Online Services offerings.
Salesforce.com hired Microsoft GM Matt Miszewski as senior vice president for the global public sector.
The cloud is the current Next Big Thing in computing, and the Next Big Thing in attacks could be a new breed of economic denial-of-service attacks intended to use up resources and drive up the cost of cloud computing, warns a senior security researcher at Adobe Systems.
- By William Jackson
- 01/20/2011
Microsoft on Tuesday shared additional details about its next-generation Live@edu service offering for the education market.
- By Dian Schaffhauser
- 01/12/2011
Microsoft's Live@edu software gained four million new student users over the last three months worldwide.
- By Dian Schaffhauser
- 01/11/2011
Bob Muglia, head of Microsoft's Server and Tools Business, and one of four Microsoft presidents, will be stepping down.
The Interior Department can't award a noncompetitive contract to Microsoft, a federal judge has ruled.
- By Matthew Weigelt
- 01/05/2011
Microsoft on Tuesday announced the availability of the release candidate version of Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011.