Hewlett-Packard Co. is taking a step closer toward its promise of offering a public cloud service by providing early access to select testers.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- September 07, 2011
At the Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference, Microsoft COO Kevin Turner singled out and attacked six strategic rivals. Does Microsoft have what it takes to compete and win against Apple, Google, Cisco, Oracle, Salesforce.com and VMware?
- By Scott Bekker
- September 07, 2011
The next version of Microsoft's Windows Intune cloud service for systems management will be generally available starting Oct. 17.
- By Scott Bekker
- September 06, 2011
Salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff left no doubt about his company's direction during his Wednesday keynote at the annual Dreamforce conference taking place this week in San Francisco.
- By John K. Waters
- September 01, 2011
There has been activity among Microsoft's appliance partners revolving around Azure -- but you wouldn't know it from this year's WPC, where the product played a backstage role.
- By Scott Bekker
- September 01, 2011
Hewlett-Packard is looking to make it easier for partners to offer its portfolio of services to customers.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- September 01, 2011
The transition to the cloud is a huge challenge for most business models. Here are nine key performance indicators for tracking your company's cloud progress.
- By Keith Lubner
- September 01, 2011
The rivalry between Microsoft and VMware over the costs of tapping virtualization infrastructure has intensified.
- By Kurt Mackie
- August 30, 2011
Microsoft on Monday unveiled a promotion that pays back customers $150 per user seat for switching to Microsoft Dynamics CRM Online from CRM competitors.
- By Scott Bekker
- August 29, 2011
Microsoft signed an interoperability and legal agreement on Tuesday with China Standard Software Co. Ltd. (CS2C) as part of a Linux server partnership deal. The terms of the deal were not disclosed.
- By Kurt Mackie
- August 23, 2011
HP stunned the IT world by saying it is considering the spinoff or sale of its PC division. The company also announced it is killing its webOS-based hardware business -- marking an exit from its short-lived tablet and smartphone arm -- while looking at licensing options for its webOS software business.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- August 19, 2011
Microsoft on Thursday told Office 365 customers affected by this week's outage that it will deduct 25 percent from this month's bill.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- August 19, 2011
Amazon has issued an apology and explanation in response to the massive cloud outage that crippled its Dublin datacenter last week.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- August 18, 2011
For users of Microsoft's Business Productivity Online Services (BPOS), the transition to Office 365 will begin next month, but Microsoft's latest communications indicate a few caveats.
- By Kurt Mackie
- August 17, 2011
Several Microsoft cloud services, including Office 365, SkyDrive and CRM Online, experienced major outages on Wednesday.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- August 17, 2011
According to a recent report by Avanade, the nightmare of "cloud sprawl" is quickly becoming a reality for a growing number of executives. Here's how to guide your clients through the cloud-services minefield.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- August 16, 2011
Microsoft and Amazon both suffered brief cloud outages on Sunday when lightning struck cloud datacenters run by both companies in Dublin, Ireland.
- By Kurt Mackie
- August 09, 2011
Now that it's available, partners are prepared to start offering Microsoft's biggest bet in the cloud to date.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- August 04, 2011
Microsoft created a new partner category when it launched Office 365 to fix the billing problems that vexed partners with BPOS. But there's a catch.
- By Scott Bekker
- August 04, 2011
For Microsoft global alliance partner Dimension Data, the OpSource acquisition both takes the company to the cloud, and gives it a more multivendor presence up there.
- By Scott Bekker
- July 31, 2011