Clouds and Carriers

DigitalOcean, a start-up based in New York City, announced $83 million in Series B funding for its cloud infrastructure for developers of websites and applications. DigitalOcean offers simple cloud hosting...

The total cloud IT infrastructure spending (server, storage, and Ethernet switch) will grow by 26.4% in 2015 and will reach $33.4 billion, accounting for a third of all IT infrastructure...

Interoute claims that its global cloud platform, Interoute Virtual Data Centre (VDC), delivers nearly double the throughput across the Atlantic than the next best cloud provider, as evidenced by research...

Microsoft's Azure Service Fabric is a microservice application platform that allows developers to decompose their work into logical subsystems that are loosely coupled and can be updated independently. In this...

Amazon Web Services announced plans to open an AWS infrastructure region in India for its cloud computing platform in 2016. AWS did not reveal the location of its new data...

CipherCloud and the Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) are forming a Cloud Security Open API Working Group to jointly define protocols and best practices for implementing cloud data security as a...

Oracle announced more than 24 new cloud services, including Oracle Database Cloud - Exadata, Oracle Archive Storage Cloud, Oracle Big Data Cloud, Oracle Integration Cloud, Oracle Mobile Cloud, and Oracle...

Arista Networks introduces its CloudVision network-wide approach for workload orchestration and workflow automation. The idea is to provide a turnkey solution for sharing network-wide switch state data across a cloud...

IBM has signed Sogeti, a subsidiary of the Capgemini Group, as a partner for its Bluemix cloud platform-as-a-service (PaaS). Sogeti has more than 20,000 professionals in 15 countries offering IT...

To handle its hyperscale growth, Microsoft Azure must integrate the latest compute and storage technologies into a truly software-defined infrastructure, said Mark Russinovich, Chief Technology Officer of Microsoft Azure in...

VeloCloud Networks announced a reference architecture that brings its Software-Defined Wide Area Networking (SD-WAN) to Equinix’s Performance Hubs, which are extensions of an enterprise corporate IT network co-located inside Equinix...

IBM has opened its first cloud data center in Cornaredo, a municipality in the Province of Milan, Italy. The new IBM Cloud center, powered by SoftLayer infrastructure, allows customers and...

AirTight Networks, which specializes in enterprise, cloud-managed Wi-Fi, named Rick Wilmer as its new CEO. Prior to joining AirTight as COO in December 2014, Wilmer served as CEO of Leyden...