Just weeks before Microsoft is expected to launch SQL Azure, Amazon on Tuesday said it will let customers host relational data in its EC2 cloud service using MySQL.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- October 27, 2009
The president of Microsoft's Business Division got the hot seat at the Gartner Symposium ITxpo event last week.
- By Herb Torrens
- October 26, 2009
Customer Interaction Cloud combines Salesforce.com's Service Cloud 2 and Cisco's UC stack.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- October 23, 2009
An independent security researcher and a prominent figure in open source exploit data collection now has a new commercial home.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- October 21, 2009
Microsoft sent a letter to T-Mobile Sidekick users claiming that most of the customer data thought to be lost during a network failure is now being restored.
- By Kurt Mackie
- October 15, 2009
Microsoft has devised a way to introduce new PC buyers to its Office productivity suite through a "Starter" edition.
- By Kurt Mackie
- October 14, 2009
Microsoft launched "Windows phone" branding on Tuesday, marking the global rollout of Windows Mobile 6.5-based phones by Microsoft's hardware partners.
- By Kurt Mackie
- October 06, 2009
Cisco this week partnered with SaaS pioneer Salesforce.com to promote a combined CRM and contact center offering with a cloud twist.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- October 06, 2009
A Microsoft-sponsored IDC study predicted relatively healthy employment prospects for skilled IT labor over the next four years.
- By Kurt Mackie
- October 05, 2009
Chicago-based PointBridge sprinted out of the gate with the Microsoft Business Productivity Online Suite -- to the tune of $640,000 in revenues in one year. Co-founder Todd Golden tells RCP how PointBridge did it.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- October 01, 2009
Wayne Beekman is maneuvering his business to catch the cloud. Should you be doing that too?
- By Scott Bekker
- October 01, 2009
Despite uncertain prospects, a few partners are already investing in some of Microsoft's SaaS- and cloud-based initiatives.
- By Scott Bekker
- October 01, 2009
Eight identity management products from seven vendors have earned interoperability certification for the Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML 2.0) in this summer's round of interoperability testing.
- By William Jackson
- September 30, 2009
Microsoft's CEO Steve Ballmer gave a keynote talk at a Microsoft event called "The New Efficiency" on Tuesday.
- By Kurt Mackie
- September 29, 2009
Google's acquisition of open source security technology firm reCaptcha could help the search giant's Internet security, except against persistent hackers.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- September 18, 2009
Microsoft on Thursday announced that it had commenced an invitation-only public technical preview of Microsoft Office Web Apps.
- By Kurt Mackie
- September 17, 2009
Google has announced that it will soon offer a set of cloud services to government through the Apps.gov cloud computing storefront.
- By Joab Jackson
- September 16, 2009
Microsoft's chief financial officer fielded questions about Microsoft's business at the Citi Annual Technology Conference on Wednesday.
- By Kurt Mackie
- September 09, 2009
IBM released a virtualized client computing offering it touts as a cloud-based desktop.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- September 02, 2009
With a competitive pricing model established and different licensing options on the table, partners are starting to see how Microsoft's cloud-computing offering can drive new business.
- By Scott Bekker
- September 01, 2009