Arik Hesseldahl in News on October 5, 2011 at 11:54 am PT
The long-simmering feud between the CEOs of Salesforce.com and Oracle is about fundamentally different views on cloud computing technology. But it’s also more than a little bit personal.
Arik Hesseldahl in Enterprise on July 13, 2011 at 12:13 pm PT
The software giant wants its resellers to start pushing the cloud on their customers, and today committed $5.8 billion in incentives and other enticements to do it.
Arik Hesseldahl in Enterprise on June 30, 2011 at 6:45 am PT
The earthquake in Japan isn’t having as much of an impact on worldwide IT spending as expected, the market research firm Gartner says. Growth, it says, will be healthy.
Arik Hesseldahl in Enterprise on June 28, 2011 at 6:30 am PT
With Microsoft Launching Office 365 today, the cloud-based office suite business is getting a little more crowded. We check in with Shan Sinha, product manager of Google Apps, to talk about the state of the business and where Google’s going now that Microsoft is elbowing its way into the cloud.
Arik Hesseldahl in Enterprise on June 23, 2011 at 5:30 am PT
For CIOs, planning for disasters usually means bearing the cost of a second identical set of IT gear that can keep a company running when the worst happens. You’d think by now someone would have figured out how to move disaster recovery to the cloud. As of today, you’d be right.
Arik Hesseldahl in Enterprise on April 25, 2011 at 6:50 am PT
The man who challenged Microsoft Office with Google Apps now has his sights set on a bigger and even more impossible-seeming goal: Challenging Windows for dominance of the enterprise desktop.
Arik Hesseldahl in Enterprise on April 22, 2011 at 4:04 pm PT
Apparently in honor of Earth Day, Google has published a video giving a glimpse inside its data center in Moncks Corner, South Carolina.
Arik Hesseldahl in Enterprise on April 22, 2011 at 7:40 am PT
Amazon says it’s making meaningful progress in its fight to get its cloud infrastructure working again. Meanwhile, Sony’s Playstation Gaming network is down too.
Arik Hesseldahl in Enterprise on April 21, 2011 at 5:07 pm PT
Amazon seems to be getting control over the outage that brought down its cloud and the Web sites of more companies than we’ll probably ever know. What will be harder is winning back the confidence it has until now enjoyed. The names of victims now include the New York Times and a division of Salesforce.com.
Arik Hesseldahl in Enterprise on April 18, 2011 at 6:10 am PT
On the day that Microsoft releases Office 365 for public beta testing, we catch up with Ron Markezich, corporate vice president for Microsoft’s U.S. Enterprise and Partner Group to talk about its enterprise cloud business.