Clouds and Carriers

Microsoft is unique among the big cloud players in that enables enterprises to use the same technologies in their own data center and in the Azure public cloud, said Scott...

Microsoft announced general availability of Azure Service Fabric -- its microservices application platform for the cloud. The technology has actually been in use on Microsoft's internal infrastructure for the past...

Intel is rolling out its new Xeon processor E5-2600 v4 product family and aimed at software-defined clouds. The launch is accompanied by new Intel SSDs, including the first 3D NAND...

Google disclosed key details on Maglev, the software-based, network load balancer that is used to ensure consistent performance for the Google Compute Engine. In a blog posting, Google said Maglev...

Pure Storage introduced an all-flash storage platform designed to scale to multi-petabyte data sets at economics of less than $1/GB usable. The company said its new FlashBlade architecture makes all-flash...

IBM announced a partnership with Indosat Ooredoo to develop and deliver solutions on the IBM Cloud to help businesses streamline processes and improve productivity. Under the five-year partnership, which was...

Box reported revenue for its fourth quarter of fiscal 2016 of a record $85.0 million, an increase of 36% from the fourth quarter of fiscal 2015. Billings in the fourth...

IBM is opening a Cloud Data Center in Johannesburg, South Africa in collaboration with Gijima and Vodacom. The facility will provide a portfolio of cloud services, including running and managing...

AT&T introduced a hosted voice and collaboration service aimed at improving employee productivity. AT&T Collaborate provides a full array of cloud-based voice features and collaboration tools, such as instant messaging...

Art Gilliland, CEO of Skyport Systems, discusses Application, Virtualization, Security and the Cloud at RSA 2016. When you think about isolating applications or workloads, you want to be able to...

by Leon Adato, Head Geek, SolarWinds As IT professionals, we know our way around data centers like the backs of our hands. But what consistently surprises me when I speak...

Cisco agreed to acquire CliQr Technologies, a start-up offering an application-defined cloud orchestration platform to model, deploy and manage applications across bare metal, virtualized and container environments. Cisco will pay...

The Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) Top Threats Working Group published a report listing The Treacherous 12: Cloud Computing Top Threats in 2016: Data Breaches Weak Identity, Credential and Access Management...