Microsoft Opens Up Skype for Web Beta in U.S. and U.K.

The company expands the browser-based voice and video calling application to all users; no Skype client is required. Read more »

IBM Intros Cloud Service for Designing Chips for Mobile, Wearables

IBM's High Performance Services for Electronic Design Automation (EDA) help small and midsize businesses and startups design chips faster. Read more »

Dropbox vs. Box: Which Cloud Storage Service Is Right for Your Business?

Enterprise cloud storage services are plentiful, but two—Box and Dropbox—stand out. Here's a look at the key enterprise features built into each service. Read more »

HP Split Teaches Valuable Lessons About IT Consolidation in the Cloud

NEWS ANALYSIS: Hewlett-Packard Enterprise has learned valuable lessons about IT consolidation in the cloud that it can pass on to customers. Read more »

Microsoft to Strengthen Canadian Cloud Privacy With Two Data Centers

The new Azure data centers will ease the data privacy, sovereignty and compliance concerns that may be keeping Canadian firms from Microsoft's cloud. Read more »

Dropbox for Business Updates Boost File Security, Management

Dropbox debuts a new API and an Active Directory connector, both aimed at helping enterprises better secure and manage their cloud files. Read more »

On Variational and PDE-Based Distance Function Approximations

In this paper, we deal with the problem of computing the distance to a surface (a curve in two dimensional) and consider several distance function approximation methods which are based on solving... Read more »

What’s Behind the Surge in OpenStack Consolidations

NEWS ANALYSIS: Why were two OpenStack companies acquired on the same day, and what does that mean for the future of OpenStack? Read more »

Microsoft Opens the Office 365 Email Archive Floodgates

Microsoft removes some technical hurdles for companies migrating data to the company's "bottomless" cloud-based email archives. Read more »

Google’s Schmidt Defends the Company’s ‘Moonshot’ Projects

Investments in "moonshot" projects will keep Google at the leading edge of innovation, Eric Schmidt, executive chairman, told shareholders. Read more »