Google, Microsoft, and Amazon pitched their respective cloud offerings during the keynote panel session at Interop New York Thursday. 
                    
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Enterprise customers starting to use cloud services will also host applications and/or data on premises.
                    
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Windows Azure will let people more easily plug into such public data, Ozzie says.
                    
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Microsoft investigating holes in Server Message Block file-sharing protocol.
                    
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Keynote focuses on Azure, cloud computing
                    
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Company responds to complaints from users
                    
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    How useful is user account control feature?
                    
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
    
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Cisco's announcement of a new hosted e-mail service is causing high-pressure rumblings in the cloud computing space.
                    
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Free consumer apps are also key its enterprise software development strategy.
                    
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    HP will pay $2.7  billion in cash in an agreement reached by the boards of both companies.
                    
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Computer Online Forensic Evidence Extractor distributed on "pirate" sites.
                    
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    An organization's security has a lot to do with its E-mail system, a top security official at Microsoft suggested. 
                    
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Six security fixes released
                    
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Amazon will let customers host relational data in its EC2 cloud service using MySQL.