Microsoft's Windows Azure and SQL Azure cloud services are now generally available, ending the free test period.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 02/01/2010
Public safety managers must begin moving into the cloud, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer said Wednesday at the company's annual Public Safety Symposium.
- By Patrick Marshall
- 01/28/2010
Microsoft is aligning with former rival Intuit to help bring Intuit's large contingent of QuickBooks users into the cloud.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 01/21/2010
A Microsoft official said this week the government must revise out-of-date statutes and lay new legislative groundwork to keep pace with technology.
The company updates its Quince community-based patterns portal with a professional service for collaboration and storage.
- By Kathleen Richards
- 01/21/2010
At the inaugural meeting of the New York Technology Council, representatives from Google and Microsoft debated their views on how data will be stored and shared in the future.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 01/15/2010
Microsoft and HP disclosed a $250 million, three-year partnership to develop and market next-generation datacenter technology and application infrastructure.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 01/13/2010
A free toolkit helps database users migrate from MySQL to Microsoft's SQL Server database on-premise or in the cloud.
The company announced on Monday that users can now upgrade their Windows Azure preview accounts to commercial subscriptions, or register for new services.
- By Kathleen Richards
- 01/06/2010
Still rooted to traditional dev models? Learning the skills and processes to span on-premises and cloud scenarios is fundamental for Visual Studio developers in 2010.
- By Kathleen Richards
- 01/01/2010
HP for the first time is enabling infrastructure and application provisioning services to third-party cloud providers, initially Amazon's EC2.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 12/17/2009
As CIOs largely reject the early crop of cloud services for business-critical apps, Redmond readies private and hybrid cloud platforms.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 12/17/2009
Microsoft formed a new organization within its Server and Tools Business last week called the Server and Cloud Division (SCD).
- By Anne Watkins
- 12/14/2009
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
- 12/14/2009
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
- 12/10/2009
If recent market research is any indication, computing in the clouds could achieve a breakthrough of sorts in 2010.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- 12/08/2009
Intel pushed the outer limits of computing by unveiling a new experimental processor it described as a "single-chip cloud computer."
- By Herb Torrens
- 12/04/2009
Google, Microsoft and Amazon pitched their respective cloud offerings during the keynote panel session at Interop New York Thursday.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 11/20/2009
Yousef Khalidi talked about Microsoft's new Azure cloud services at the Interop trade show on Thursday.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 11/20/2009
In conjunction with Microsoft’s launch announcement of Windows Azure at this week’s Professional Developers Conference in Los Angeles, Embarcadero Technologies released an Azure-related database administration tool.