IBM accelerated its cloud push on Thursday, when it announced the launch of SmartCloud, a product designed to enhance IBM's public cloud infrastructure services, and Workload Deployer, a new private cloud solution.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- April 07, 2011
There was a distinct cloud slant at some of the major IT players' recent partner confabs, with Cisco, IBM and VMware each rolling out new programs to help their partners transition customers to the new computing paradigm.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- April 07, 2011
According the latest CDW-G Unified Communications Tracking Poll, unified communications adoption has doubled in the United States over the past year, with many organizations moving their UC implementations to the cloud.
- By David Nagel
- April 06, 2011
With Windows Intune's availability, Redmond's cloud lineup for partners spans the back office, CRM, systems management and Infrastructure as a Service.
- By Scott Bekker
- April 05, 2011
Microsoft is planning some licensing changes that it says would benefit its Software Assurance (SA) customers and service provider partners.
- By Kurt Mackie
- March 31, 2011
Hewlett-Packard Co. has launched its CloudSystem Partner Program, which is designed to help partners sell HP's CloudSystem portfolio.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- March 31, 2011
Dell, Equinix and Rackspace have teamed up to launch an OpenStack demo environment on Wednesday in a bid to get customers to test cloud-based apps on the platform.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- March 30, 2011
WEB EXCLUSIVE: With so many licensing choices available, IT pros can expect to have at least a few questions if they decide to migrate to Office 365. Consultancy Directions on Microsoft recently shed some light on the ins and outs of Office 365 licensing in an online discussion.
- By Kurt Mackie
- March 29, 2011
Cisco Systems announced on Tuesday that it has agreed to acquire newScale Inc., a provider of self-service, self-catalog and lifecycle management software.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- March 29, 2011
Amazon Web Services launched its EC2 Dedicated Instances service on Monday, in response to indications from its enterprise customers that they do not want to share computing resources with other companies.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- March 28, 2011
The beta of Microsoft's System Center Virtual Machine Manager (SCVMM) 2012, which Microsoft released earlier this week as part of the unveiling of the System Center 2012 line, includes the company's Server Application Virtualization tool for Windows Azure.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- March 24, 2011
Microsoft announced the release of Windows Intune on Wednesday during its Microsoft Management Summit, taking place this week in Las Vegas.
- By Kurt Mackie
- March 23, 2011
Citing information from Research In Motion senior executives, a Bloomberg article published on Wednesday reports that Microsoft has struck a cloud computing deal with the smartphone developer.
- By Kurt Mackie
- March 20, 2011
Beta 2 of Visual Studio LightSwitch, Microsoft's rapid business application development tool, is now available for immediate download.
- By Michael Desmond
- March 16, 2011
Hewlett-Packard Co. announced plans to launch a public cloud service in a speech by CEO Leo Apotheker on Monday at the company's annual analyst meeting.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- March 15, 2011
Salesforce.com is beefing up the social networking capabilities of its Service Desk app with support for native Facebook integration.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- March 03, 2011
The more efficient your PRM plan is, the more efficient and productive you'll be.
- By Keith Lubner
- March 01, 2011
What happens in one part of Microsoft doesn't always sync with what happens in another. And that can spell trouble for partners.
- By Paul DeGroot
- March 01, 2011
If Microsoft doesn't get BPOS billing right, the sharks will certainly be circling.
- By Scott Bekker
- March 01, 2011
Cloud-based systems management product acquired MSP capabilities in a second beta, and partner internal-use rights are included in Microsoft's partner program.
- By Scott Bekker
- February 28, 2011