Clouds and Carriers

Chelsio Communications announced that its T5 Adapters RDMA over Ethernet solution will operate in Microsoft's Cloud Platform System (CPS), which lets customers operate a scalable cloud built from Azure. Chelsio's...

TierPoint, which operates 141,000 square feet of raised-floor data center space across 7 U.S. cities, announced its acquisition of Xand, a privately-held provider of colocation, cloud, disaster recovery and managed...

IBM announced a new set of data services for the IBM Cloud: IBM DataWorks – a set of cloud-based data refinery services that shape, cleanse, match and secure data. The...

Microsoft will begin offering unlimited OneDrive cloud storage at no additional cost to all Office 365 paid subscribers. The offer is being rolled out incrementally starting with Office 365 Home,...

IBM is preparing to open a new SoftLayer cloud center in Paris, France, before the end of this year. IBM Cloud will also provide cloud infrastructure services for customers and...

VCE will become an EMC business as Cisco agrees to sell all but 10% of its equity stake in the joint venture to EMC. VCE is the joint venture formed...

IBM and Microsoft agreed to collaborate to provide their respective enterprise software on Microsoft Azure and IBM Cloud. Key points: IBM and Microsoft will make key IBM middleware such as...

CenturyLink has opened a cloud development center in Bellevue, Washington. Centurylink said the Seattle area was selected as the location for the facility due to the concentration of cloud companies...

SAP has designated IBM as a premier strategic provider of Cloud infrastructure services for its business critical applications – accelerating customers' ability to run core business in the cloud. The...

Level 3 Communications has added HP Helion Managed Cloud Service to its Cloud Connect Solutions ecosystem, which provides enterprises and government agencies with an MPLS VPN connection over the global...

AT&T announced a partnership with Blue Jeans Network, a start-up based in Mountain View, California that offers cloud-based video collaboration services. “Today, people expect convenient and effective ways to work...

CenturyLink is now offering cloud-enabled Microsoft Office 365 for businesses at no extra charge with its business voice and data bundles and managed services bundles for new small and midsized...

Google announced a 10% price reduction in all Google Compute Engine instances types, across all regions, effective immediately. Earlier this year, Google said it would price cloud computing in accordance...