Report: After Amazon-Whole Foods Deal, Target Plans Move from AWS Cloud
Brought to you by IT Pro Will Amazon Web Services (AWS) start to bleed retail clients as merchants begin to pull out of their cloud investments with the company? With Amazon closing on its deal with...
View ArticleHPE and VMware Team Up on Composable Infrastructure, Hybrid Cloud
Hewlett Packard Enterprise is joining forces with VMware to offer composable infrastructure based on HPE Synergy and VMware Cloud Foundation. The integration is called, simply enough, VMware Cloud...
View ArticleA Type of Computing: NYTimes Crossword Moves from AWS to Google App Engine
Brought to you by IT Pro Online games can be compute-intensive, particularly first-person shooters or games with heavy graphics that require a lot of power. But apparently a crossword puzzle can put a...
View ArticleOracle Hiring 5,000 for Cloud Business in Race With Salesforce
Gerrit De Vynck (Bloomberg) — Oracle Corp. is hiring another 5,000 employees for its cloud software business as it fights Salesforce.com Inc. for market share in the fast-growing industry.The hiring...
View ArticleYou Can Now Spin Up VMware Servers in Amazon Data Centers
Ever wish you could just run VMware on Amazon’s cloud? Now you can, but not on the entire AWS cloud, just in one availability region hosted in Amazon data centers in Oregon. This morning, on stage at...
View ArticleVMware Wants to Be ‘Cloud Switzerland’
After an attempt to become a cloud service provider itself – which appears to have seen mixed results – VMware’s new cloud strategy can be summarized as wanting to be the glue that holds a customer’s...
View ArticleWant Cheaper Google Cloud? Pipe Your Data into GCP via Internet
If your application running in Google’s cloud can tolerate lower performance and reliability in exchange for a significant discount on using the infrastructure, you will soon be able to use a...
View ArticleRackspace’s Private Cloud Built on VMware Now in GA
Brought to you by MSPmentor Rackspace, one of the major forces behind the open source cloud infrastructure project OpenStack, this week announced general availability of its new Rackspace Private...
View ArticleIn Moving Production Workloads to Cloud, VMware Professionals Prefer AWS, Azure
Brought to you by IT Pro VMware customers are far along on the path to cloud adoption, with many opting for Amazon Web Services (AWS) as their preferred cloud platform as they shift VMware production...
View ArticleMicrosoft Acquires Cycle Computing for HPC in Azure
Brought to you by IT Pro Microsoft announced the acquisition of Cycle Computing to support customers using High-Performance Computing (HPC) in the cloud. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Cycle...
View ArticleMicrosoft Plans Two Cloud Data Centers for Australian Government
Brought to you by IT Pro This week, Tom Keane, head of global infrastructure for Microsoft Azure, announced that the company will be adding two new Azure regions in the land down under. These two new...
View ArticleCloud Migration, Security in Focus at AWS Summit New York
Brought to you by IT Pro Two weeks after posting its Q2 results, Amazon Web Services today is hosting AWS Summit New York, a free event for users designed to educate them about new features. To that...
View ArticleOracle Supercharges Cloud Database With Bare-Metal Servers
Oracle is now offering its Exadata database technology on bare-metal servers available as a cloud service. The Exadata Database Machine is an appliance that usually lives in the customer’s own data...
View ArticleAWS No Longer a Holdout, Joins Kubernetes Group
Brought to you by IT Pro It’s only been two weeks since Microsoft made news by signing up as a platinum member of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation, a Linux Foundation project and the organization...
View ArticleEquinix Lands Latest SaaS Giant Partnership: SAP
Equinix this week announced partnerships with two very different cloud service providers. One is with the German enterprise software giant SAP, whose Customer Relationship Management (CRM) cloud...
View ArticleAs Tech Execs Rally Around Kushner, Government Cloud Adoption Still Has Ways...
Brought to you by IT Pro Six weeks after a group of tech executives traveled to Washington, D.C. for a June meeting with President Donald Trump and his advisers, including Jared Kushner, the...
View ArticleEquinix Positioning for “Next Wave” of Cloud Data Center Deployments
As the data center expansion frenzy by the largest cloud providers in top markets becomes less of a frenzy and more of an incremental growth story, Equinix is positioning itself to capture the next...
View ArticleAre You Ready for a Multi-Cloud Future?
Sponsored by: Dell EMC and Intel There are so many conversations around cloud, moving to various types of cloud services, and how to leverage the power of hybrid. But, it’s important to note just how...
View ArticleMicrosoft’s Cloud Market Share Grew More than Anyone Else’s Last Quarter —...
Now that top cloud providers have released their quarterly numbers, Synergy Research Group has had a chance to augment the numbers they released a couple of weeks back, but there are no surprises. The...
View ArticleDCK Investor Edge: JLL Says Cloud Data Center Hunger Has Subsided
Real estate brokerage Jones Lang LaSalle just published its North America data center market report for the first half of the year, highlighting new trends impacting the data center industry, such as...
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