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
- January 28, 2011
Hewlett-Packard Co. launches portfolio of private cloud services, hardware and software and announces plans to jump into public cloud hosting.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- January 27, 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.
- By Kurt Mackie
- January 27, 2011
Future ARM-based servers could reduce power costs in the datacenter, helping cloud service providers such as Microsoft.
- By Kurt Mackie
- January 27, 2011
Microsoft announced today that it has rolled out a new support lifecycle policy for its Online Services offerings.
- By Kurt Mackie
- January 25, 2011
Add transactional e-mail hosting and distribution to the list of services offered by Amazon Web Services.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- January 25, 2011
Salesforce.com hired Microsoft GM Matt Miszewski as senior vice president for the global public sector.
- By Kurt Mackie
- January 21, 2011
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
Hosting provider OpSource Tuesday added a suite of managed offerings to its cloud services.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 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
F5 Networks is readying software that will let enterprises extend their storage networks to public and private clouds.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- December 14, 2010