Clouds and Carriers

Google Cloud Platform (GCP) is lauching Dedicated Interconnect at up to 80 Gb/s through a number of locations. This allows customers to extend their corporate datacenter network and RFC 1918...

An interesting development has just come out of the Google Cloud Platform. Until now, we’ve seen Google internal global network growing by leaps and bounds. There is a public facing...

HPE agreed to acquire Cloud Technology Partners (CTP), a consulting company that helps enterprises migrate to hybrid IT capabilities. Financial terms were not disclosed. CTP is cloud agnostic, with extensive...

BT unveiled its new “Business Platform-as-a-Service” for helping enterprise customers engage in digital transformation. The service lets enterprises use the BT Personalised Compute Management System (PCMS) to enable them to...

Western Digital has acquired Upthere, a start-up that offers an enhanced cloud storage experience for consumers. Financial terms were not disclosed. Upthere, which is based in Redwood City, California, offers...

Amazon Web Services (AWS) introduced new capabilities to make it easier for mobile app developers to authenticate users and gain access to resources on the AWS cloud. The new service...

Level 3 Communications is introducing a new self-serve capability as part of its Cloud Connect Solutions that provides customers with more flexibility for optimizing their cloud-based workloads. The new Level...

Druva, a start-up based in Sunnyvale, California, announced $80 million in new funding for its cloud data protection and management solutions. Druva provides a data management-as-a-service solution that aggregates data...

Rackspace Private Cloud powered by VMware built on VMware Cloud Foundation will enable full software defined data center (SDDC) capabilities including compute, storage and networking that span the public and...

Alibaba Group reported that Q2 2017 revenue from cloud computing reach RMB2,431 million (US$359 million), up 96% year-over-year. Alibaba said the number of paying customers of its cloud computing business...

Box is integrating Google Cloud Vision into is cloud storage service to provide its enterprise customers with advanced image recognition. The capability, which is currently in private beta, leverages machine...

Trend Micro is now offering its Deep Security agent in the recently launched Amazon Web Services (AWS) GovCloud Marketplace. Trend Micro said its Deep Security provides cloud protection from a...

Verizon Enterprise Solutions has extended its Virtual Network Services (VNS) onto the Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud, Verizon said its VNS service on AWS will provide customers with the end-to-end...