Microsoft and Toyota plan to use Windows Azure, the software giant's cloud offering, to build a telematics service that will initially serve people who have the car maker's electric and plug-in hybrid cars.

• A Novell Operations Center feltérképezi, monitorozza, és méri az üzleti szolgáltatásokat, továbbá biztosítja a megfelelőséget a szolgáltatások és konfigurációk szintjén • Az SAP IT Service Management alkalmazással integrálható megoldás számos egyedi szolgáltatást és extra funkciókat kínál az SAP-felhasználók számára, amelyekkel összehangolhatják az üzleti célokat és adatokat az IT rendszerrel

• Elkészült a Novell legújabb, vállalati használatra szánt irodai programcsomagja, a terméktámogatási szolgáltatásokkal kibővített LibreOffice and Novell Services termék, amely a zárt forráskódú szoftverek minden főbb funkcióját tartalmazza azok árának töredékéért • Az irodai programcsomag magyarul is elérhető • Hazai fejlesztővel bővül a Novell LibreOffice fejlesztői csapata április 1-jétől

Computer system problems at one of Japan's biggest banks continued on Friday, with Mizuho Bank unable to process salary payments for more than half a million people. The bank also said its Internet banking service and ATMs would be offline over Japan's upcoming three-day weekend.

Intel wants the cloud to be a bit smarter.

Microsoft used its annual Public Sector CIO Summit to highlight the use of its cloud services and take a few digs at Google, which has won some high profile public-sector contracts itself.

Hewlett-Packard reported a jump in profit for the first quarter of its 2011 fiscal year but sales were dragged down by weakness in its PC and services divisions.

Hoping to service the growing market for cloud computing systems, Oracle has packaged two file management software programs into a single integrated offering, called the Oracle Cloud File System, the company announced Monday.

SAP on Monday announced the 2.6 release of its SaaS (software-as-a-service) suite Business ByDesign, which contains a highly anticipated SDK (software development kit) that partners will use to create extensions and add-ons.

A közeljövőben mintegy hatszáz főre növelné a budapesti és debreceni ügyfélszolgálati központjaiban alkalmazottak létszámát a British Telecom (BT) Global Services - mondta a cég ügyfélszolgálati elnöke csütörtökön Debrecenben a helyi központban tett látogatásakor.

Cisco Systems has thrown its weight behind OpenStack, the open-source cloud infrastructure platform developed jointly by NASA and managed service provider Rackspace Hosting.

Az Ericsson távközlési cég "Money Services" (Pénzkezelési Szolgáltatások) néven új üzletágat hoz létre, amely mobil pénzügyi szolgáltatásokat kínál.

Intel on Thursday defended its Intel Insider feature in the latest Sandy Bridge PC chips, which secures streaming of high-definition movies from online movie services to PCs.

Dell announced Tuesday it is purchasing security services vendor SecureWorks, expanding its range of IT management offerings. Terms were not disclosed.

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Unisys on Tuesday introduced a dedicated, hosted computing service that lets customers quickly add extra capacity for short-term use, a feature Unisys says is unique among what it calls "hosted private clouds."

The European Commission is investigating allegations that Google has abused its dominant position in online search to promote its other services, such as price comparators, the Commission announced Tuesday.

While many Oracle customers are interested in running IT services on private clouds, most are still in the early stages of development, a new study from the Independent Oracle Users Group has found.

China will investigate and prosecute Google next July if the search engine company does not acquire the necessary state license to operate its Google Maps service in the country, according to the government.

Misys is buying fellow financial services software vendor Sophis for ?435 million (US$595 million), creating a company with products for both buy-side and sell-side purposes, the company announced Friday. The deal is expected to close before the end of February.