In its bid to take on Salesforce.com and Oracle in the hotly contested market for CRM software-as-a-service (SaaS), Microsoft Monday launched its Dynamics CRM 2011 Online.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- January 18, 2011
Rackspace Hosting has turned to Akamai Technologies to provide Web acceleration and its content delivery network (CDN) to Rackspace's cloud and hosted services customers.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- January 13, 2011
Bob Muglia, head of Microsoft's Server and Tools Business, and one of four Microsoft presidents, will be stepping down.
- By Kurt Mackie
- January 10, 2011
Amazon Web Services today said it has added two new support plans to its enterprise cloud services and lowered the cost of its existing two support offerings by 50 percent.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- January 06, 2011
The Interior Department can't award a noncompetitive contract to Microsoft, a federal judge has ruled.
- By Matthew Weigelt
- January 05, 2011
The lower startup and maintenance costs, quicker ROI and increased productivity of the cloud, particularly with Windows Azure, may greatly expand the number of ISVs seeking to build their own channels.
- By Keith Lubner
- January 01, 2011
Microsoft needs to reconsider its practice of directly billing cloud computing customers if the company expects to gain serious traction among partners.
- By Scott Bekker
- January 01, 2011
This time, Rizzo pulls no punches when it comes to talking down Google's effort to compete against Microsoft, and also discusses future integration opportunities with Windows Azure.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- December 28, 2010
Microsoft's Online Services Director explains how Office 365 fits into the partner ecosystem, and how the transition from BPOS to Office 365 will work.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- December 22, 2010
Microsoft on Tuesday announced the availability of the release candidate version of Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011.
- By Kurt Mackie
- December 15, 2010
Rackspace Hosting is looking to make cloud computing appealing to a broader set of customers that might not have the resources or acumen to manage systems and apps in the cloud.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- December 15, 2010
Hosting provider OpSource Tuesday added a suite of managed offerings to its cloud services.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- December 15, 2010
F5 Networks is readying software that will let enterprises extend their storage networks to public and private clouds.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- December 14, 2010
Google announced an e-mail continuity service on Thursday to support premises-based Microsoft Exchange.
- By Kurt Mackie
- December 10, 2010
The Agriculture Department is moving its e-mail, document-sharing, and other collaboration tools to Microsoft's cloud infrastructure to save money and improve efficiency, USDA officials said today.
- By Rutrell Yasin
- December 09, 2010
Microsoft on Tuesday announced an upcoming privacy feature for its Internet Explorer 9 Web browser.
- By Kurt Mackie
- December 08, 2010
Google made three announcements today concerning its consumer Web efforts.
- By Kurt Mackie
- December 07, 2010
Billing it as the first database for the cloud, Salesforce.com today is announcing Database.com, targeted at next-generation enterprise apps.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- December 07, 2010
Microsoft's cloud infrastructure has achieved security certification required to provide federal agencies with cloud-based services.
- By Rutrell Yasin
- December 06, 2010
Amazon Web Services today launched the beta of a programmable and purportedly scalable hosted Domain Name System service aimed at letting users of its cloud services create, modify and delete DNS zone files.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- December 06, 2010