Cisco has flexed its financial muscle in a bid to acquire SaaS security vendor ScanSafe for roughly $183 million

The much-hyped Google Wave collaboration tool could be out of beta and formally launched - with an app store - by the end of 2010

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has announced the Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS), a new web service that makes it easy to set up, operate, and scale relational databases in the cloud

CA is looking to ease the administrative burden associated with virtualised environments after it bulked up its management portfolio for cloud infrastructure

Virtualisation giant VMware has launched a new capacity management tool for virtualised environments

Microsoft has admitted that it will discontinue its Silverlight Streaming beta service, which will be replaced by a Windows Azure service

Big Blue has unveiled software designed to ease the admin headache of managing both physical and virtualised environments

Greenplum is offering a version of its massively parallel processing (MPP) database absolutely free-of-charge

Cloud computing could be the way to address the security skills crisis, if providers can provide the right contractual guarantees, according to industry bodies in IT security

Business ISP Star is offering a service that will allow organisations to offload virtual server management onto its own hosted machines