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    Microsoft Rolls Out Tools, Windows 8 Server, Cloud Services at BUILD

    ANAHEIM, Calif. Microsoft announced a series of moves meant to advance developer opportunities and productivity, including a developer preview of Visual Studio 2011, a preview of Windows Server 8 and the company s Team Foundation Server (TFS) delivered as a service on the Windows Azure cloud. In a Sept. 14 keynote at the Microsoft BUILD…

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    Microsoft Talks Cloud to Financial Analysts

    Microsoft’ s (NASDAQ:MSFT) Financial Analyst Meeting 2011 offered executives the chance to tout what they termed the company’s momentum over the past year. Xbox Kinect, Office 365 and other offerings were all cited as drivers of that momentum. However, executives also emphasized the relative newness of the latest generation of products, as if to suggest…

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    VMware’s Cloud Foundry Aims at PaaS

    The point of platform as a service is to enable developers to focus solely on their application code and data, leaving the maintenance of the underlying stack to the service provider. One of the biggest potential problems with this approach is that of lock-in: Moving from one PaaS (platform as a service) to another, in…

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    Software Companies Get $24 Million Investment from Intel

    Intel is investing more than $24 million in software companies that touch on areas that the giant chip maker is particularly interested in, including cloud computing. In all, Intel Capital–the vendor’s investment arm–will spread the money among seven software makers. The investments, announced Sept. 8, highlights Intel’s ongoing interest in building out its software capabilities,…

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    Microsoft, Google Both Suffer Cloud Computing Outages

    It was not a banner week for cloud computing. Cloud computing rivals Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) and Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) suffered brief outages that knocked off some of their key messaging and collaboration products. Google Sept. 7 saw its Google Docs word collaboration application cramp up for one hour, shutting out millions of users from their document lists,…

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    HP Launches Private Cloud Service Beta Program

    Hewlett-Packard is taking the latest steps in its efforts to become a major cloud computing player, launching the private beta for two public cloud services. The infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) offerings, announced Sept. 7, are HP Cloud Compute and HP Cloud Object Storage, and offer a combination of HP hardware and software technologies as well as the…

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