Clouds and Carriers

Google rolled out significant enhancements to its cloud platform. Here are some highlights: Google has invested an estimated  $26 billion over the past 3 years in its infrastructure, including data...

Here is the archived livestream of Day 1 of the Google Cloud Next event in San Francisco, March 8, 2017. The 3 hour 25 minute video includes the presentations by...

Alibaba Cloud (Aliyun), is kicking off a pilot program with Intel for a cloud-based FPGA (field programmable gate array) acceleration service. Specifically, Aliyun will use Intel Arria 10 FPGAs, Intel...

IBM and Salesforce announced a global strategic partnership for leveraging artificial intelligence in business decisions. Under the deal, IBM Watson, the leading AI platform for business, and Salesforce Ein stein,...

Amazon Web Services' GameLift service has added support for games built with any C++ or C# game engine, including Amazon Lumberyard, Unreal Engine, Unity, and custom developed engines. Amazon GameLift...

Orange Business Services announced a new global public cloud offering for multinationals that includes advice, auditing, integration and managed services for cloud infrastructure and applications. The services are based on...

Three UK, part of CK Hutchison, is working with Nokia to deploy a fully integrated cloud native core network. Nokia said the deployment will use its cloud software design to...

ZeroStack, a start-up based in Mountain View, California focused on self-driving private clouds, unveiled its roadmap and first suite of artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities derived from machine learning. ZeroStack’s intelligent...

In its financial report for Q4 2016, Amazon noted that sales for AWS rose 47% YoY to reach #3.546 billion.  Operating income rose 60% YoY to reach $923 million. Some...

Juniper Networks introduced "Unite Cloud" - a data center framework for helping enterprises to simplify the creation and management of hybrid, multi-cloud environments.  The solution complements the previously announced Unite...

Microsoft posted revenue of $24.1 billion GAAP and $26.1 billion non-GAAP for its quarter ending 31-Dec-2016. Net income was $5.2 billion GAAP, and $6.5 billion non-GAAP. “Our customers are seeing...

HPE agreed to acquire Cloud Cruiser, a start-up specializing in cloud consumption analytics software that enables customers to manage and optimize public, private and hybrid cloud usage and spend. HPE...

Turbonomic (formerly VMTurbo), which offers an autonomic performance platform for the hybrid cloud, secured an additional $50 million in financing led by General Atlantic, a leading global growth equity firm....