Zuora Raises $115M to Help Cloud Service Models
Subscription management platform company Zuroa, whose X-as-a-Service offering helps cloud and hosted services transform and manage billing, has raised another $115 million as the startup approaches a...
View ArticleEquinix Targets Enterprise SaaS Space With Office 365 Services
Equinix is now offering private, managed connections to Microsoft Office 365, the Software-as-a-Service version of Office. The service will be available in 15 markets worldwide in the third quarter....
View ArticleElastic Wrangles Big Data With Real-Time Search as a Service
Elastic, formerly known as Elasticsearch, has built quite the following since raising $70 million last year. The open source software has gone from 8 million to more than 20 million downloads over the...
View ArticleEquinix in Aggressive Pursuit of SaaS Provider Partnerships
Now that private network links to nearly all major Infrastructure-as-a-Service providers are available at its data centers around the world, Equinix is aggressively pursuing similar partnerships with...
View ArticleDell Extends Hybrid Cloud Management Platform to Azure
Looking to grow its role as a linchpin around hybrid cloud services that revolve around the data center, Dell today added support for Windows Azure Pack and enhanced support for Microsoft Azure to its...
View ArticleRingCentral Answers Call for Office 365 Integration
According to our sister site Talkin’ Cloud, business communications provider RingCentral is expanding its relationship with Microsoft to integrate its RingCentral Office offering with Office 365,...
View ArticleIIX Unveils SaaS Platform for Data Center Network Interconnection
Using private network connections to bypass the public internet when connecting to public cloud services has been a popular way for the more security and performance conscious enterprises to take...
View ArticleSalesforce Latest Convert to the Web-Scale Data Center Way
Once a cloud services company reaches a certain size, the web-scale data center economics starts to make a lot of sense, and it looks like Salesforce is the latest major service provider to have...
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Cloud Cruiser Launches App for Hybrid Cloud Usage Management
This article originally appeared at The WHIR Cloud Cruiser launched a new application on Monday to address the need for organizations running hybrid clouds to quickly and easily track and analyze...
View ArticleOracle Launches Cloud Data Center in Canada
Oracle announced the launch of a cloud data center in Canada, saying there was demand for cloud services hosted within the country’s borders driven by concerns over data sovereignty. Data sovereignty...
View ArticleAkana Simplifies API Management Across Multiple Data Centers
Taking API management to a higher level, Akana today unveiled an upgrade to its namesake platform that creates a single logical instance of a control plane for API endpoints that can be distributed...
View ArticlePrivate Links to Office 365 Now Live at Equinix Data Centers
Equinix and Microsoft have partnered to offer performance- and privacy-sensitive enterprises the option to consume Microsoft’s cloud productivity software suite Office 365 over private network links...
View ArticleThe Billions in Data Center Spending behind Cloud Revenue Growth
The downside of having a thriving cloud services business is the enormous amount of money a company needs to spend on data center infrastructure to support it. And the faster it grows, the more money...
View ArticleIIX Raises $26M from Silicon Valley’s VC Heavyweights
IIX, the startup that is addressing the growing need companies have for interconnecting their networks with other companies’ networks, has closed its second funding round, raising $26 million from a...
View ArticleSalesforce Buys Wind Power for its Entire Data Center Load
Salesforce has contracted for 40 megawatts of wind power from a West Virginia wind farm, becoming the latest cloud giant to enter into a utility-scale renewable-energy purchase agreement for its data...
View ArticleStorage Failure Brings Salesforce Down for Some in Europe
Storage hardware failure has brought Salesforce down for some users in Europe in a lengthy outage Wednesday. The outage made the popular cloud CRM software provider’s service inaccessible for customers...
View ArticleIBM Launches Cloud Data Center in South Africa
IBM has expanded its cloud data center infrastructure to South Africa. The company announced the launch of a new IBM Cloud site in Johannesburg Tuesday. The company has been investing in expanding its...
View ArticleMicrosoft Moves Away from Data Center Containers
The cloud will not be housed in data center containers. Google has taken the container route for building out data center capacity in the past but eventually decided against it. Now, Microsoft has also...
View ArticleFlurry of Enterprise Software Deals Filling Semiconductor Dearth
(Bloomberg) — Semiconductor mergers were so 2015. This year’s hottest club is business software deals. A flurry of enterprise software transactions have been announced in the past two months, helping...
View ArticleRomonet Wants Its Data Center Software to Learn on Its Own
Machines are better than humans at many things, and data center management may be on its way to becoming one of them. Romonet, a London-based maker of data center management software, is preparing to...
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