Jon Brodkin

The pilot program, which will run XenApp on Amazon's Elastic Compute Cloud service, allows app streaming from the cloud. The companies said the service will allow organizations to stream apps to users from Amazon

The company's CTO Simon Crosby says the move won't harm Xen market share. Citrix is fighting VMware for customers in the emerging virtualization market with XenServer, based on the Xen open source hypervisor

It's still hard to move workloads from one cloud service to another or from an internal data centre to a cloud provider. The three app categories that might resolve this

Google and the Google-owned YouTube received more than 10,000 requests for user data from government agencies in the six months ending Dec. 31, 2009, according to newly released data.

The companies are expected to announce details end of April regarding a new site called VMforce.com. Here's a guess: an extension to Salesforce's platform-as-a-service offering, powered by VMware

The online collaboration tool goes up against Google Wave, Novell Pulse, and Microsoft SharePoint by combining a range of business apps onto a single screen so users can share content, plan projects and conduct online meetingsrn

FathomDB and Cloudscale launched at DEMO Spring 2010 this week with more affordable alternatives to today

Tim O'Reilly is 'the most powerful voice' in open source, followed by Linux chief architect Linus Torvalds, Google executive Chris Messina and ex-Sun CEO Jonathan Schwartz, according to a new ranking of influential open source personalities.