Parallels has just given partners more reasons to pay attention to the company: Today it promoted former Microsoft executive Birger Steen to CEO.
- By Scott Bekker
- February 23, 2011
Microsoft filed a motion with a Washington State Superior Court on Thursday that accuses Matt Miszewski, former market development manager for Microsoft's government group, of stealing 600 MB of documents the company considered confidential when taking a new position at Salesforce.com.
- By Chris Paoli
- February 11, 2011
Microsoft today announced the appointment of Satya Nadella as president of the company's Server and Tools Business.
- By Kurt Mackie
- February 09, 2011
In a move key to bridging public and private clouds based on its virtual machines, VMware this week said it will release software that ties internal vSphere VMs to service providers' cloud platforms.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- February 09, 2011
Oracle today released software aimed at letting organizations build private clouds by adding elasticity to their applications via a clustered file system.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- February 07, 2011
IBM made a few announcements at its Lotusphere 2011 event today, including some upcoming social networking improvements plus the debut of a new cloud-based productivity suite called "LotusLive Symphony."
- By Kurt Mackie
- January 31, 2011
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