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According to the Netcraft Web Server Survey for February 2012, Nginx was "the only server to experience a non-negligible market share increase this month" by picking up 0.27 percentage points.

Microsoft announced it had partnered with Cloud.com to support Hyper-V with OpenStack in October 2010. This was not long after the land-rush of companies clamoring to announce their support for

FireHost is expanding and offering European services, Dell is letting its customers have Linux their way, and EnterpriseDB wants to "cloudify" PostgreSQL. FireHost's European-Based Secure Cloud Hosting Services Go Live

In a move to stay competitive in a cloud landscape that looked to be blowing it away, Microsoft this morning is making important strategic shifts that could advance its position

Amazon has offered a free tier to get customers hooked on Amazon Web Services (AWS) for some time, but customers were limited to the Linux Micro Instance. This week, Amazon

Just last week, ReadWriteWeb's Joe Brockmeier asked and answered the question, "Who wrote Hadoop?" That's the cloud database framework that scales huge datasets over multiple clusters, distributed under the Apache

We've heard the phrase "Windows Everywhere" for some decades now, and many of us already came to the conclusion that if you someday carried Windows with you wherever you go,

The next edition of Windows Server, still code-named "Windows Server 8," will have vastly expanded integration with Windows Azure, the company's cloud platform that started out as simply a

There will be an apps store platform built into Windows 8, and there will be a self-service mechanism for developers to publish their wares and make money from them.

Last month we looked at why companies like Microsoft, Google and Facebook want your email. The post looked at a presentation by Jeff Hardy of SmarterTools, given at HostingCon 2011.

The first tool Microsoft produced for remotely deploying Windows on client computers throughout a network was called - in classic Microsoft-ese - the Automated Installation Kit (AIK). What made it

There is a strong feeling in the air that cloud-based enterprise apps are no longer the "challengers." The sheer breadth of activity surrounding last week's Dreamforce conference in San Francisco

There are four major players in the customer relationship management market: SAP, Siebel, Microsoft, and Salesforce.com. Their market share differences are negligible. (This article is the counterpoint to an analysis

We covered Microsoft's comments on virtualization and cloud computing earlier this week. Microsoft says that virtualization isn't cloud computing, but that opens up a new question: Just what is

At this week's VMworld conference in Las Vegas, attendees are gearing up for a series of events and breakthrough announcements beginning Tuesday, some of which are expected to come directly

This week Microsoft Research released Project Daytona MapReduce Runtime, a developer preview of a new product designed for working with large distributed data sets. Microsoft also has a big

One of the various announcements coming out of VMware this week is change to how vSphere is priced. VMware's "simplified" pricing can be found in a nightmarish 10 page

With Citrix escalating its fight against VMware, and VMware expanding its arsenal, it's worth taking a look at the current state of the virtualization market. Gartner has published its Magic

Microsoft has admitted that it will hand over data to the U.S. government, if properly requested, even if that data is stored somewhere other than the U.S. The issue,

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 "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

A recent story in Network World shows one way that Microsoft will make future wins over to its cloud-based Office offerings, now called Office 365 and still in beta: with

Forrester has released its Wave report on platform-as-a-service providers for 2011. It looks at how these providers serve two different types of user: professional developers and business developers. By

At dinner the other night, John Squire the chief strategy officer for CoreMetrics told me that his team is building an API and embarking on that windy path in

Two Microsoft researchers, Erik Meijer and Gavin Bierman, argue in a paper in the April issue of Communications that the growing number of non-relational databases (or more specifically, key/value