Google Compute Engine Preemptible Virtual Machines, a short-lived VM type that's in beta, was recently announced by the search giant for those who don't mind running VMs that will work for just 24 hours and can be shut down with only a 30-second advance notice.
Enterprises seeking a cloud services provider might want to choose either Amazon Web Services or Microsoft Azure, according to a new report from Nasuni.
Microsoft announced the names of Windows 10 editions, along with some basic details about each.
Big Switch Networks Inc. -- which says it provides "the industry's only open SDN fabric" -- has announced it now supports VMware NSX virtualization technologies.
Improvements in performance, reliability, fault tolerance and simplicity will be featured in the upcoming Exchange Server 2016 from Microsoft.
PLUMgrid is teaming up with Cumulus Networks on a new solution featuring software-defined networking technologies running in OpenStack cloud implementations featuring bare-metal hardware.
Microsoft released the Technical Preview 2 of Windows Server 2016, which features compute, networking and storage enhancements.
A group of new-age networking players deployed a peering router between the U.S. and Australia in a software-defined networking proof of concept.
VMware has updated a management tool to meet emerging security standards for Docker containers.
At its its inaugural Ignite conference in Chicago, Microsoft provided myriad new offerings to manage and secure its new Universal Windows Platform and the entire enterprise IT stack.
Ciena Corp. is buying new-age networking technology with its announced $400 million acquisition of Cyan Inc.
Cisco, which has characterized its Application Centric Infrastructure networking approach as "better than" upstart software-defined networking technologies, is adding detection capabilities to its offering.
Microsoft envisions a future with 1 billion devices of all types and form factors running its new Windows 10 OS.
To bring the benefits of software-defined networking (SDN) to campus systems stressed by the demands of today's mobile-ready workplaces, HP announced new hardware and software solutions.
A new preview build of Windows 10 was released to select Microsoft testers, but it harbors several flaws that could prove problematic to users.
Omnipresent cloud computing now make up one-third of all enterprise spending on IT infrastructure, research firm IDC said in a new report.
Avaya is filling out its two-month-old software-defined networking (SDN) architecture with new Ethernet switches.
A new survey of database deployments shows traditional, structured relational databases still reign among enterprises, irregardless of the publicity surrounding Hadoop-based Big Data approaches that feature NoSQL databases as a primary component.
VMware Inc. is building out its container technologies and datacenter cloud footprint with two new open source projects.