HP for the first time is enabling infrastructure and application provisioning services to third-party cloud providers, initially Amazon's EC2.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- December 17, 2009
As CIOs largely reject the early crop of cloud services for business-critical apps, Redmond readies private and hybrid cloud platforms.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- December 17, 2009
Microsoft announced last week that it acquired Opalis Software for an undisclosed amount.
- By Kurt Mackie
- December 16, 2009
A "bug for all seasons" looks to be the legacy carved out for Adobe Systems as 2009 winds to a close.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- December 15, 2009
Microsoft issued hotfixes on Friday to address problems some users were having with Microsoft Office 2003 files.
- By Kurt Mackie
- December 14, 2009
Microsoft formed a new organization within its Server and Tools Business last week called the Server and Cloud Division (SCD).
- By Anne Watkins
- December 14, 2009
Amazon has launched the beta for Spot Instances, which lets developers and customers bid for unused capacity on Amazon's EC2 service.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- December 14, 2009
While social networking has opened new possibilities for communicating over the Internet, it also gives hackers more vectors through which to attack.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- December 11, 2009
The telecom industry has joined the effort to forge interoperability among cloud providers by forming a consortium backed by some key cloud providers, including Microsoft and IBM.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- December 10, 2009
A Microsoft corporate vice president talked about the company's business prospects, including competition with Google, at a Barclays event on Tuesday.
- By Kurt Mackie
- December 08, 2009
As expected, the last Windows Security Update of 2009 will include six security bulletins -- three dubbed "critical" and three labeled "important."
- By Jabulani Leffall
- December 08, 2009
If recent market research is any indication, computing in the clouds could achieve a breakthrough of sorts in 2010.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- December 08, 2009
Microsoft is warning that the extended support phase will end next year for some of its older Windows operating systems.
- By Kurt Mackie
- December 07, 2009
There's no rest for the weary, as Microsoft is planning to release six security bulletins for this coming Patch Tuesday.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- December 04, 2009
Security firm Prevx apologized for suggesting that Microsoft's November security patch might cause "black screens" in Windows-based machines.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- December 04, 2009