Clouds and Carriers

ZeroStack, a start-up based in Mountain View, California, emerged from stealth and introduced a private cloud solution that combines on-premises deployment and a SaaS platform -- allowing customers to consume...

Mesosphere and Microsoft have agreed announced to port Apache Mesos to Windows Servers. Mesosphere, which is a start-up based in San Francisco, offers a Datacenter Operating System (DCOS) that provides...

Platform9, a start-up based in Sunnyvale, California, announced general availability of its a SaaS solution that transforms an organization's existing servers into an AWS-like agile, self-service private cloud.  A version...

Big Switch Networks unveiled its Big Cloud Fabric 3.0 architecture based on SDN, inspired by hyperscale cloud networking deployments, and featuring an elastic pricing structure. Big Switch's architecture features an...

Alibaba's Aliyun cloud computing arm is completing construction of a new cloud data center in Singapore.  The facility, which will be Aliyun's headquarters for overseas business, is slated for an...

Lagrange System, a start-up offering an Application Delivery Controller (ADC), announced that it is now a Google Cloud Platform Technology Partner. The Lagrange CloudMaestro application delivery controller (ADC) is built...

F5 Networks launched a program to verify that its software-based solutions support a broad array of cloud providers worldwide. Specifically, the F5 Ready program verifies F5 BIG-IP virtual edition compatibility...

The Google Cloud Platform is launching profession Media Solutions ranging from rendering to transcoding to content distribution around the world. Media Solutions on Cloud Platform offers both turnkey tools tailored...

Google Cloud Platform announced availability of two new data processing services: Cloud Dataflow, Cloud Pub/Sub, and BigQuery. Google said its Cloud Dataflow is specifically designed to remove the complexity of...

GE announced plans to enter the cloud services market with its Predix Cloud -- a platform-as-a-service (PaaS) designed specifically for industrial data and analytics. GE said it is developing Predix...

At its inaugural Data Technology (DT) event this week in Beijing. Alibaba's Aliyun division announced its Data Protection Pact - a pledge to customers and partners to protect the privacy...

Intel is rolling out a new "Cloud for All" initiative to accelerate cloud adoption by making public, private and hybrid cloud solutions easier to deploy. The plan calls for a...

In its quarterly financial update, Amazon.com announced that revenues at AWS reached $1.824 billion for the second quarter of 2015, up 81% over the $1.055 billion for Q2 2014. Some...