Clouds and Carriers

CenturyLink introduced pay-by-the hour billing for managed services on its CenturyLink Cloud platform, including web servers, middleware, operating systems, directory services and database applications. CenturyLink's new cloud-based managed services are...

Google has posted its "Kubernetes" container cluster management tool as open source code on GitHub. Kubernetes, which runs on Google Compute Engine, builds on top of Docker to construct a...

Google introduced HTTP Load Balancing and SSD Persistent Disk capabilities for its Cloud Platform. HTTP Load Balancing Google claims the new HTTP Load Balancing can scale to support more than...

Orange Business Services is joining Equinix Cloud Exchange, a new service that provides seamless, on-demand and direct access to multiple clouds and multiple networks inside Equinix International Business Exchange (IBX)...

IBM is ready to open the first of two new Softlayer Cloud Services data centers designed and dedicated for U.S. government workloads and compliant with Federal Risk and Authorization Management...

Phoenix TV, a leading broadcaster with operations around the world, has activated a distributed cloud data center platform supplied by Huawei. The "2&7" initiative, covering Phoenix TV's main centers in...

At its HP Discover 2014 corporate event this week in Las Vegas, HP introduced its Helion Network, a global, open network that promises a portfolio of services for enterprise customers...

AT&T has added HP to its network-enabled cloud ecosystem. This enables AT&T customers to use their Virtual Private Networks (VPN) to connect to HP Helion. AT&T NetBond is a highly...

Microsoft's Azure cloud service is now generally available in its Brazil South region, located in the state of Sao Paulo. Early customers at the new data center include Brazil-based credit...

IBM is bringing the SAP HANA platform, the SAP HANA ONE service and other SAP applications on the cloud platform from SoftLayer, an IBM Company. The SoftLayer platform has been...

Dimension Data, which is the $6 billion global ICT solutions and services division of NTT, announced plans to launch cloud-based Enterprise Mobility-as-a-Service (EMaaS) that will provide enterprise clients with an...

Microsoft and salesforce.com announced a strategic partnership to create new solutions that connect salesforce.com's customer relationship management (CRM) apps and platform to Microsoft Office and Windows. The companies plan to...

Huawei introduced its Agile Data Center Cloud Connect Solution that ties together its CloudEngine series of data center switches, the Huawei Agile Controller and cloud applications. The solution, which was...