Partners and sales teams are entering uncharted territory in cloud computing. Here are six tips for building a successful cloud practice.
- By Ken Thoreson
- June 01, 2011
A first look at the public beta of the much-anticipated successor to the Microsoft Business Productivity Online Suite.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- June 01, 2011
A recent Forrester Research report suggests Microsoft may soon require its business customers to pay Software Assurance (SA) licensing fees.
- By Kurt Mackie
- June 01, 2011
Private equity firm Oak Hill Partners on Thursday said it acquired Exchange hoster Intermedia for an undisclosed amount.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- May 26, 2011
Microsoft's Tech-Ed 2011 conference, which took place in Atlanta this year, just wrapped up. Here's a handy roundup of all of this week's conference news and analysis from our editors.
- By Gladys Rama
- May 20, 2011
In the latest public-sector cloud win for Microsoft, the city of San Francisco has chosen to migrate 60 departments and agencies to Microsoft Exchange Online over the next 12 months.
- By John Moore
- May 19, 2011
Besides spotlighting Microsoft's mobile plans and the upcoming Visual Studio vNext, Monday's keynote also focused on the cloud and the issue of managing services and applications in hybrid environments and across multiple devices.
- By Kathleen Richards
- May 17, 2011
"Cloud" was king at the first annual MVP Nation conference, but this year's gathering of Microsoft MVPs covered other topics as well. This is RCP's report of those discussions, straight from the show floor.
- By Rich Freeman
- May 17, 2011
Virtualization giant and cloud vendor VMware announced on Monday that it has reached a deal to acquire Shavlik Technologies, a provider of security and management software for servers and desktops.
- By Becky Nagel
- May 16, 2011
Customers of Microsoft's Business Productivity Online Services (BPOS) have experienced e-mail outages over the past few days.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- May 13, 2011
Google unveiled "Chromebooks," a new line of notebook devices that will run its Chrome operating system, on Wednesday, at the close of the Google I/O 2011 conference in San Francisco.
- By Kurt Mackie
- May 12, 2011
Security is not a top priority for cloud computing vendors and customers, according to a recent CA Technologies-sponsored survey by the Ponemon Institute.
- By Kathleen Hickey
- May 06, 2011
For some reason, Microsoft is being stingy with the partner licenses for Windows Intune, the cloud-based systems management and security toolset that launched in March.
- By Scott Bekker
- May 05, 2011
VMware's Cloud Foundry, the company's fledgling cloud offering, suffered two brief outages last week.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- May 03, 2011
Microsoft has confirmed that Scott Guthrie, corporate vice president of the .NET Platform at Microsoft, will move to the Windows Azure group as part of a May reorg, as expected.
- By Michael Desmond
- May 02, 2011
Finally, the company enters a cloud market that's becoming increasingly crowded with other IT heavyweights, including IBM and Cisco.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- May 01, 2011
Amazon Web Services on Friday issued a detailed postmortem explaining the cause of last week's massive outage of its cloud services that left numerous customers crippled.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- April 29, 2011
Telecommunications heavyweight CenturyLink on Wednesday said it has agreed to acquire managed hosting and cloud provider Savvis for $2.5 billion.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- April 27, 2011
Google on Tuesday said it is changing the terms of its free service for small businesses, requiring any organization with more than 10 users to subscribe to its paid Google Apps for Business.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- April 26, 2011
Amazon Web Services (AWS) said it has restored service for a majority of its customers after an outage left numerous organizations crippled for more than three days.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- April 25, 2011