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
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    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
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Attendees at SMB Nation Fall 2010 see peril and opportunity in the rise of cloud computing.
                    
			            - By Rich  Freeman
- December 01, 2010
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Red Hat today said it has acquired Makara, a provider of software that will help the open source software provider accelerate the build-out its cloud services.
                    
			            - By Jeffrey  Schwartz
- November 30, 2010
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Google last week announced Google Cloud Connect for Microsoft Office, a service that will let individuals synchronize and share their documents with Google Docs.
                    
			            - By Jeffrey  Schwartz
- November 29, 2010
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Novell last week announced it will be sold to Attachmate, a business software company based in Seattle, for $6.10 per share. 
                    
			            - By Chris  Paoli
- November 29, 2010
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Microsoft plans to decrease the pricing of its Service Provider License Agreement offerings for Windows Server 2008 R2, starting next year.
                    
			            - By Kurt  Mackie
- November 19, 2010
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Leading IT distributor Ingram Micro last week launched a cloud offensive aimed at bridging the partner community with various vendors' cloud offerings. 
                    
			            - By Jeffrey  Schwartz
- November 19, 2010
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Google said today it is bringing its various cloud productivity apps offering under the Google Apps branding infrastructure. 
                    
			            - By Jeffrey  Schwartz
- November 18, 2010
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Microsoft today announced a new white paper that explains the organizational and standards-based underpinnings of its cloud security efforts.
                    
			            - By Kurt  Mackie
- November 15, 2010
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Hyper-V Cloud, one among several solutions announced at Berlin confab, aims to facilitate private cloud deployments. 
                    
			            - By Jeffrey  Schwartz
- November 08, 2010
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    By shifting computing operations to the cloud, organizations can reduce their carbon emissions by 30 percent, according to a study that is the basis of the report.
                    
			            - By Jeffrey  Schwartz
- November 04, 2010
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Google is suing the Interior Department for allegedly excluding Google's products in a request for quotation the agency issued on Aug. 30. 
                    
			            - By Michael   Hardy
- November 02, 2010
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Dell today said it will acquire Boomi, which operates a service designed to simplify the integration of cloud services with premises-based infrastructure.
                    
			            - By Jeffrey  Schwartz
- November 02, 2010