Google made three announcements today concerning its consumer Web efforts.
                    
			            - By Kurt  Mackie
- December 07, 2010
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Billing it as the first database for the cloud, Salesforce.com today is announcing Database.com, targeted at next-generation enterprise apps.
                    
			            - By Jeffrey  Schwartz
- December 07, 2010
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Microsoft's cloud infrastructure has achieved security certification required to provide federal agencies with cloud-based services.
                    
			            - By Rutrell  Yasin
- December 06, 2010
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Amazon Web Services today launched the beta of a programmable and purportedly scalable hosted Domain Name System service aimed at letting users of its cloud services create, modify and delete DNS zone files. 
                    
			            - By Jeffrey  Schwartz
- December 06, 2010
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    One of the cables published by WikiLeaks late last month cites U.S. diplomatic concerns over a Chinese software security company with access to Windows source code.
                    
			            - By Kurt  Mackie
- December 06, 2010
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Microsoft today announced that the release candidate of Service Pack 1 for System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 R2 is now available.
                    
			            - By Kurt  Mackie
- December 03, 2010
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Microsoft questions the use of overseas datacenters in GSA deal.
                    
			            - By David  Hubler
- December 03, 2010
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Amazon Web Services said it has not caved to political pressure when deciding to oust WikiLeaks from its cloud service.
                    
			            - By Jeffrey  Schwartz
- December 03, 2010
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    At town hall meeting, top Microsoft channel exec acknowledges difficulties for partners with current billing policies and vows, 'We are working on it.'
                    
			            - By Scott  Bekker
- December 02, 2010
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    The General Services Administration is moving e-mail and collaboration tools to the cloud, becoming the first federal agency to move e-mail to a cloud-based system agencywide, GSA officials said yesterday. 
                    
			            - By Rutrell  Yasin
- December 02, 2010
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Microsoft rolls out a set of programs, products and service offerings called Hyper-V Cloud.
                    
			            - By Jeffrey  Schwartz
- December 01, 2010
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Microsoft has a tradition of making a market breakthrough with the third release of a product. For that pattern to hold true in unified communications and collaboration, the channel will have to play a critical role.
                    
			            - By Alison  Diana
- December 01, 2010
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    I've spoken to a lot of resellers and ISVs over the past several weeks and a good number of  you can't wait until 2011.
                    
			            - By Keith  Lubner
- December 01, 2010
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Improvements coming to Web-based data viewing, high availability and query performance.
                    
			            - By Kurt  Mackie
- December 01, 2010
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    When Microsoft overhauls the Online Suite as Office 365 next year, it will include Office desktop products in the subscription. An analyst calls the change a "mixed bag" for the channel.
                    
			            - By John K. Waters
- December 01, 2010