Clouds and Carriers

BT will begin offering direct access to the Oracle Cloud in the final quarter of calendar year 2016. With BT Cloud Connect for Oracle FastConnect, customers can use a private...

IBM and Cisco will form a suite of cloud-based workplace tools and applications infused with IBM Watson. Specifically, Cisco Spark and WebEx collaborative workspace platforms will be integrated with IBM’s...

Sales of infrastructure products (server, storage, and Ethernet switch) for cloud IT, including public and private cloud, grew by 3.9% year over year to $6.6 billion in the first quarter...

Windstream introduced its new Cloud Connect service for making it easier for companies to access the cloud and use it as a foundational element of their IT strategy. Windstream Cloud...

Amazon Web Services introduced a fully managed service to simplify the process of setting up and scaling file storage in the AWS Cloud. Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS) can...

Twilio announced the pricing of its public offering of 10,000,000 shares of Class A common stock at a price of $15.00 per share. The shares are expected to begin trading...

VMware Horizon Air customers will now be able to take advantage of cloud-hosted desktop and application services via the IBM Cloud. The announcement reinforces IBM Cloud being a strategic cloud...

CenturyLink has acquired ElasticBox, a start-up offering a multi-cloud application management service. Financial terms were not disclosed. ElasticBox, which has offices in San Francisco and Madrid, enables enterprise IT organizations...

Loggly, a start-up based in San Francisco, raised $11.5 million in funding for its cloud-based, enterprise-class log management service. Loggly's cloud-based log management solution crunches through huge volumes of log...

Microsoft agreed to acquire LinkedIn for $26.2 billion in cash, giving it the world’s largest social network for professional contacts. LinkedIn highlights: 19 percent growth year over year (YOY) to...

Hewlett Packard Enterprise rolled out a set of major updates to its cloud portfolio, including: HPE Helion Cloud Suite, a new software suite enabling customers to deliver and manage their...

Embotics, a start-up based in Ottawa, raised $12.1 million for its multi-cloud management software for public and private cloud environments. The Embotics vCommander integrates into private, public or hybrid infrastructure...

SolarWinds release a major update to its flagship Network Performance Monitor (NPM) tool that now gives network administrators the hybrid IT visual insights and analysis needed for visibility into the...