As CIOs largely reject the early crop of cloud services for business-critical apps, Redmond readies private and hybrid cloud platforms.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- December 17, 2009
Microsoft announced last week that it acquired Opalis Software for an undisclosed amount.
- By Kurt Mackie
- December 16, 2009
Microsoft formed a new organization within its Server and Tools Business last week called the Server and Cloud Division (SCD).
- By Anne Watkins
- December 14, 2009
Amazon has launched the beta for Spot Instances, which lets developers and customers bid for unused capacity on Amazon's EC2 service.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- December 14, 2009
The telecom industry has joined the effort to forge interoperability among cloud providers by forming a consortium backed by some key cloud providers, including Microsoft and IBM.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- December 10, 2009
A Microsoft corporate vice president talked about the company's business prospects, including competition with Google, at a Barclays event on Tuesday.
- By Kurt Mackie
- December 08, 2009
If recent market research is any indication, computing in the clouds could achieve a breakthrough of sorts in 2010.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- December 08, 2009
Intel pushed the outer limits of computing by unveiling a new experimental processor it described as a "single-chip cloud computer."
- By Herb Torrens
- December 04, 2009
A top Microsoft official answered questions about the state of IT spending and Microsoft's product offerings at the Nasdaq OMX 23rd Investor Program on Tuesday.
- By Kurt Mackie
- December 01, 2009
Long the subject of benign neglect, the Services Provider License Agreement has been rejuvenated in the last year with significant program changes.
- By Paul DeGroot
- December 01, 2009
Some partners worry that Microsoft is undercutting the value proposition of Exchange, selling below cost to fend off Google.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- November 29, 2009
Cisco, EMC, VMware partner for virtualization of data centers.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- November 29, 2009
Google, Microsoft and Amazon pitched their respective cloud offerings during the keynote panel session at Interop New York Thursday.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- November 20, 2009
Yousef Khalidi talked about Microsoft's new Azure cloud services at the Interop trade show on Thursday.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- November 20, 2009
Microsoft is extending its Dynamics enterprise resource planning products capabilities with three add-on services.
- By Herb Torrens
- November 19, 2009
Enterprise customers that start to use cloud services will also host applications and/or data on premises.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- November 19, 2009
Microsoft rolled out multiple public betas at its Professional Developers Conference in Los Angeles on Wednesday.
- By Herb Torrens
- November 18, 2009
Microsoft officials briefed financial analysts on the company's cloud computing strategy at its Professional Developers Conference on Wednesday.
- By Kurt Mackie
- November 18, 2009
Ray Ozzie kicked off Microsoft's 2009 Professional Developers Conference with a keynote that focused heavily on Windows Azure and cloud computing.
- By Michael Desmond
- November 17, 2009
Microsoft's decision to slash the price of Business Productivity Online Suite from $15 to $10 per month is not sitting well with some of its partners.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- November 13, 2009