Clouds and Carriers

In their first day of trading, shares in Box (NYSE:BOX) surged 66% over the IPO price of $14.00 per share to close the day at $23.23. Box offered 12,500,000 shares...

A newly opened Google Container Registry service is now available in beta for the secure hosting, sharing, and management of private container repositories.   The registry service hosts private images...

Ravello Systems, a start-up based in Palo Alto, California, raised $28 million in third round funding for its nested virtualization powered cloud service. Ravello, which was founded in 2011 by...

Equinix has acquired Nimbo, a professional services company focused primarily on helping enterprises develop and implement hybrid cloud IT architectures. Financial terms were not disclosed. Nimbo, which is a certified...

Apcera, a start-up backed by Ericsson that offers a Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) that deploys, orchestrates and governs workloads on premise and in the cloud, announced a partnership with Tropo to provide...

The new facility, located in Querétaro (near Mexico City) strengthens IBM Cloud’s presence in Latin America by offering data residency within the region, even more redundancy in the Americas, and...

Microsoft announced an Azure Data Center Migration Solution (ADCMS) to help migrate cloud assets from one Azure data center to another. The software was developed by Persistent Systems in collaboration...

MongoDB, a start-up with headquarters in New York City and Palo Alto, has secured an additional $80 million in funding for its next-gen database. MongoDB stores data using a flexible...

Decisions concerning the security of data in the cloud has shifted from the IT room to the boardroom, according to a newly published survey, titled Cloud Adoption, Practices and Priorities...

Verizon Enterprise completed a major upgrade to its cloud infrastructure and storage systems that involved approximately a 40-hour planned outage for its cloud customers. The new functionality allows Verizon to...

IBM officially opened its first cloud data center with SoftLayer in Germany.  The new facility in Frankfurt provides customers with a local cloud center to help them meet Germany and...

NTT Communications activated a new API Gateway that enables customers and partner companies to use their own systems to directly view and control information to operate and maintain business services....

by Chris Sharp, Equinix VP of Cloud Innovation  Those enterprises deploying hybrid and multicloud infrastructures will be the ones to watch in 2015 and beyond. According to Gartner, global cloud...