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• About 4.5 million Catholic school students to get Office 365

  By Juan Carlos Perez | 24 May, 2012 18:55

  About 4.5 million Catholic school students will get access to Microsoft's Office 365 cloud e-mail and collaboration suite as part of a 3-year deal the software vendor struck with the Catholic International Education Office (OIEC).

• Box to beef up IT administration features of cloud content management software

  By Juan Carlos Perez | 24 May, 2012 13:00

  Box will start letting customers test a new set of IT administration controls for its cloud-hosted enterprise collaboration and content management software on Thursday.

• SAP lays out cloud strategy post-SuccessFactors deal

  By Chris Kanaracus | 15 May, 2012 22:06

  SAP announced a broad set of plans to become a player in cloud computing, spanning from a "loosely coupled suite" of business applications to data integration and PaaS (platform as a service) Tuesday during the Sapphire conference in Orlando.

• About 600,000 L.A. Community College students to get Microsoft Live@EDU

  By Juan Carlos Perez | 15 May, 2012 10:48

  The Los Angeles Community College District (LACCD) will provide email and collaboration applications to about 600,000 students via Microsoft's Live@EDU cloud suite, a project for which it also considered Google Apps for Education.

• Google simplifies use of Analytics API

  By Juan Carlos Perez | 10 May, 2012 04:27

  Google has developed a tool to automate the creation of custom-reporting dashboards for its Analytics website-usage tracking service, the company said on Wednesday.

• Office Live Small Business is closed, but customers still grapple with migration

  By Juan Carlos Perez | 05 May, 2012 08:29

  The deadline to migrate email domains and websites hosted on the Microsoft Office Live Small Business (OLSB) online service suite passed on Monday, but customers continue to post a steady stream of complaints and problem reports, indicating that the number of businesses that haven't made the transition is considerable.

• At Interior Department, Google Apps will co-exist with Outlook, Office -- for now

  By Juan Carlos Perez | 04 May, 2012 03:30

  Although the U.S. Interior Department plans to replace its on-premise email servers with Google Apps' cloud-based Gmail, the agency will retain Microsoft Outlook and Office as its standard e-mail client and desktop office productivity software for end users.

• VMware to offer enterprise application portal

  By Joab Jackson | 02 May, 2012 22:06

  VMware will offer enterprise software that allows employees to access all their desktop Windows applications and online services from a single portal, the company announced Wednesday.

• After legal tussle, Google beats Microsoft for large US contract

  By Juan Carlos Perez | 02 May, 2012 10:38

  The U.S. Department of the Interior has picked Google Apps to provide cloud-based email and collaboration applications to about 90,000 staffers, choosing Google's services over Microsoft's Office 365.

• Google makes BigQuery available to all

  By Juan Carlos Perez | 02 May, 2012 08:47

  BigQuery, a cloud-based service from Google for analyzing very large sets of data, is now publicly available after a period of limited-availability testing, Google said on Tuesday.

• Microsoft's Office Live Small Business closing today

  By Juan Carlos Perez | 01 May, 2012 09:09

  Microsoft is sticking to its plan to shut down its Office Live Small Business (OLSB) suite of cloud-based services on Monday, even though it seems many customers are either unaware of the deadline or are having difficulties migrating.

• LG to launch Cloud for sharing content across smartphones, TVs and PCs

  By Mikael Ricknäs | 30 April, 2012 21:33

  LG Electronics will launch a beta of its LG Cloud service on Tuesday, that will allow users to access content across various electronic devices, the company said on Monday.

• Box upgrades API to make it simpler, more powerful

  By Juan Carlos Perez | 26 April, 2012 01:47

  Box has given its API (application programming interface) a makeover so that developers will have an easier time building and integrating applications with its software, and have those applications do more than is currently possible.

• Salesforce to launch government Cloud

  By Kenneth Corbin | 25 April, 2012 23:27

  Salesforce.com, already a leading provider of cloud services to the public sector, is doubling down on its government business, unveiling on Wednesday a major initiative to host federal, state and local agencies' computing operations in a multi-tenant cloud environment, along with a new app marketplace and a training program to equip integrators with the skills to help government clients shift to the cloud.

• Most initial Oracle Fusion Applications customers going with cloud deployment

  By Chris Kanaracus | 25 April, 2012 09:02

  Most of the 250 customers that have licensed Oracle's recently launched Fusion Applications so far have chosen a SaaS deployment model instead of running it on-premises, a senior executive said this week during the Collaborate user group conference in Las Vegas.