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The "realist" view on Microsoft's future is that Windows and Microsoft Office licenses will continue to be the company's bread and butter, and that enterprise-focused cloud initiatives like Azure

While Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) has always had its cheerleaders - yours truly included - the harsh reality is that, commercially speaking, PaaS offerings have underperformed relative to expectations for several years

We talk often about various types of NoSQL databases - document stores like Apache CouchDB, graph databases like Neo4j and BigTable clones like Hbase. But we also occasionally talk

Today, email is nearly as ubiquitous as the computer itself. It offers a simple process that "just works" for most users and it has become a defacto communication process for

One of the unanticipated problems of moving businesses' data centers and desktops into cloud-based deployments surrounds middleware, the class of software whose job is to enable better connections between users

Salesforce.com announced Database.com, its hosted relational database service, in December. Since that time it's clear that Salesforce.com is far from alone in the market for offering stand-alone, cloud-hosted databases.

I followed the press conference this morning from SAP TechEd. And I came away a bit shocked. It was actually interesting. SAP held my attention. Really. Chief Tecnology Officer Vishal

At a media event on Monday night at Open World I broached a question to one of Oracle's public relations people: "So, what company is Oracle buying in the social

CouchDB, as we have frequently noted here at ReadWriteWeb, is a document-oriented database that offers a number of benefits, including its built-in synchronization and replication. And it's these two features

Microsoft is joining OpenStack, the open cloud initiative started by Rackspace and NASA, the U.S. federal space agency. This is a big deal for OpenStack, which this week unveiled "Austin,"

Where there are definitions, there are reasons to bend them. Outsourcing, the practice of bringing outside organizations to manage a part the business process, is one of those concepts. In

Soon, Twitter users will be in a better position to get satisfaction with the companies that they do business with. This morning, SalesForce.com is announcing that the Chatter beta developer

We cover big data often, from its definition to its limits. Yet we're always still in awe of just how much data is being collected and how quickly it's

EMC is a large company focused on high performance storage for enterprises. It's offerings are closely aligned with the idea of extending infrastructure from virtualization to private cloud infrastructure. The

Spiceworks offers IT help desk, inventory management and server monitoring tools as an ad-supported software-as-a-service. Since we covered its launch, Spiceworks claims that it has 1.3 million IT professionals

CA completed its acquisition of 3Tera today in what seems like a successive line of announcements about CA's push into the cloud as an infrastructure service provider. In fact, the

File storage and document collaboration software-as-a-service provider Box today announced integration with Google Docs. Box users can now edit documents stored in Box using Google Docs, as well as

The debate about private clouds continue as the traditional heavyweight enterprise software providers make their big and glossy pitches for their vision of a private cloud. So, it may come

We are trying some new ways to provide a bit more depth to our coverage. You may notice we are packaging posts to explore topics a bit with interviews, profiles

You might as well show by doing. Telling a story is great but to get users it's critical for people to try the service by using it themselves. Right? That's

Gist now is available as a Google Gadget, plugging its contact-enhancing knowledge base into the Gmail inbox. The company has integration with Microsoft Exchange, Lotus Notes, as well as increasing

Cloud computing is most effective when it can be applied when needed. It's like getting water from the faucet. You get the water when you want to. It flows when

Oracle is launching a worldwide, cloud computing tour. It's a 50-stop show for developers and system administrators. But is the tour really about cloud computing? It seems more like virtualization

When running blogs for community, and business interests, the important question of of "who" has visited has been a big challenge. This problem was one of the inspirations for the

At the Citrix Synergy show last week, RingCube Technologies announced the latest version 4 of its vDesk VDI personalization software. This allows better customization of particular desktops that can be