Box, Salesforce Release Products to Boost Cloud Collaboration

The cloud service providers hammered out a deal that will make content stored in Box's storage cloud readily available to Salesforce.com users. Read more »

Cloud Foundry Launches PaaS Certification Program

Cloud Foundry Certification ensures the application and skill portability across any cloud service or software product that offers Cloud Foundry. Read more »

Facebook Quietly Testing Searchable Business-Referral Service

The social network now enables search of its own membership's commentary and personal pages to offer business referrals on a local and/or regional basis. Read more »

Microsoft Releases Office 365 Planner Preview

Office 365 customers can finally test Microsoft's vision of team and project management on the cloud. Read more »

VMware Backs Out of Virtustream Joint Venture Deal With EMC

The proposal to create a jointly owned cloud services business drew the ire of VMware investors worried it would further erode the company's stock. Read more »

Google Announces Beta of Second-Gen Managed MySQL Service

The updated service offers much better scalability and price/performance than its predecessor, Google claims. Read more »

Microsoft Accelerates Azure Backups

Optimizations slash the time it takes to upload backup data to Microsoft's cloud and reduce the service's cache storage penalty. Read more »

Elasticsearch Now Available on Microsoft Azure Marketplace

Elastic announced that its stack—including Elasticsearch, Logstash and Kibana—is now available on the Microsoft Azure Marketplace. Read more »

WordPress 4.4 Includes Features for Images, Embedding, Extensibility

The WordPress 4.4 release includes a number of features that provide improved extensibility for content. Images are also getting more responsive. Read more »

Microsoft Announces Linux on Azure Certification

When it comes to the cloud, the software giant extends its embrace of Linux to include a new certification for budding cloud administrators. Read more »