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
A study on worldwide PC microprocessor shipments released by IDC on Thursday bodes well for the PC market's prospects this year.
- By Kurt Mackie
- May 05, 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
The release candidate (RC) version of Microsoft's Windows Thin PC (WinTPC) solution is now available for download, the company announced on Monday.
- By Kurt Mackie
- 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
According to one Directions on Microsoft analyst, Windows 8 -- or whatever Microsoft calls its next operating system -- might be released in 2013.
- By Kurt Mackie
- April 30, 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
Led by gains from its Office, Xbox and Kinect products, Microsoft has recorded $16.4 billion in earnings in its fiscal third-quarter, the company reported on Thursday.
- By Kurt Mackie
- April 29, 2011
Half of the respondents of a recent Unisys poll indicated that they "haven't started" migrating or are "not migrating" to Windows 7.
- By Kurt Mackie
- April 28, 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
According to a Microsoft blog post on Tuesday, the company's Hyper-V Server 2008 R2 and Windows Server 2008 R2 cannot perform server virtualization using Intel's new second-generation Core vPro processors, formerly code-named "Sandy Bridge."
- By Kurt Mackie
- April 27, 2011
WEB EXCLUSIVE: Which components of Microsoft's 350-strong product portfolio are the most important to its partners' businesses? To find the answer, we asked the partners themselves -- over 500 of them -- to pick the 10 they and their customers can't go without.
- By Scott Bekker
- April 26, 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