Clouds and Carriers

CenturyLink announced major price cuts for its cloud services, including Cloud CPU, RAM, and block storage.  The company says a typical CenturyLink Cloud VM will cost at least 60% less...

Equinix launched its new Cloud Exchange, an advanced interconnection solution that enables seamless, on-demand and direct access to multiple clouds and multiple networks.  The goal is to give enterprises direct...

IBM was awarded a patent for a method of managing how resources are used and work is done within a cloud by distributing control throughout the interconnected systems. IBM said...

Level 3 and Digital Realty, which owns 131 data centers in major cities worldwide, announced a partnership to deliver direct cloud services to co-location customers.  The initial rollout targets 14...

IBM launched a new cloud marketplace that provides gateway for the company's extensive global business partner ecosystem to tap into the growing $250B cloud market opportunity. Clients can access a...

Virtus Data Centres began offering the availability of direct, private connections to Microsoft Azure from its data center in London.  The connection is provided Level 3’s network from Virtus Data...

Microsoft is increasing OneDrive for Business storage from 25GB to 1TB per user.  The boost affects all Office 365 ProPlus subscribers.  Microsoft is also developing tools to help businesses to...

Satya Nadella, Microsoft's new CEO, gave a cloud spin to the company's quarterly financial report. “This quarter’s results demonstrate the strength of our business, as well as the opportunities we...

AT&T named Amdocs and Juniper Networks as two additional vendors in its User-Defined Network Cloud program. AT&T has not revised its previously announced capital expenditure due to expected savings from...

IBM is rolling out a series of initiatives to help its business partners to develop, market and sell SoftLayer cloud services to their customers.  SoftLayer, an IBM company, provides a...

The Hartford, a leading insurance and financial services company,  in property and casualty insurance, group benefits and mutual funds, awarded a six year agreement to IBM to build a private,...

The Google Cloud Platform has added support for two Asia Pacific zones, including local language tools and the developer console in Japanese and traditional Chinese. Google Cloud is now available...

Microsoft recapped the series of updates to is Azure cloud services over the last 10 days.  These include: Web Sites: SSL is now included at no additional charge in standard...