How Much of the $900M in Wasted Cloud Spend Are You Responsible For?
Brought to you by MSPmentor One of the greatest advantages of cloud computing is the scalability and the ability to use precisely the resources you need, precisely when you need them. But too often...
View ArticleTaiwanese Firms to Sell Latest NVIDIA AI Hardware to Cloud Giants
NVIDIA, the Silicon Valley-based chipmaker that has emerged as the top supplier of computing muscle for Artificial Intelligence software, has partnered with four Taiwanese electronics manufacturing...
View ArticleCloudflare Hires Ex-Symantec Finance Chief in Move Toward IPO
Alex Barinka (Bloomberg) — Cloudflare Inc. hired Symantec Corp.’s former chief financial officer to fill the same role at the network security company as it prepares for an initial public offering....
View ArticleCenturyLink Data Center Chief to Run Rackspace’s Private Cloud Business
Brought to You by Talkin’ Cloud Rackspace announced on Thursday that it has named David Meredith president of private cloud and managed hosting, effective immediately. Meredith is the second...
View ArticleReport: Facebook to Move WhatsApp from IBM Cloud to Own Data Centers
Brought to You by The WHIR Facebook is planning to move its WhatsApp messaging service from IBM’s cloud to its own data centers, according to a report by CNBC. WhatsApp, with its 1.2 billion uses, was...
View ArticleManaged Services and Cloud Hosting: What the Leading Cloud Hosts Offer
Brought to you by MSPmentor From Rackspace to AWS to Azure, there’s no shortage of cloud hosting platforms available today. One thing that sets them apart is the degree of managed services available...
View ArticleForget Speakers – Big Money Competes in Servers
Shira Ovide (Bloomberg Gadfly) — The technology industry is captivated by titans fighting over voice-activated home speakers. The war among Amazon, Google and Apple is technology’s newest frontier, but...
View ArticleMicrosoft Joins Hot Open Source PaaS Project Cloud Foundry
The Cloud Foundry Summit Silicon Valley opened in Santa Clara, California, today with announcements by the Cloud Foundry Foundation of a new certification for developers as well as a new member,...
View ArticleAlibaba Cloud to Launch Data Centers in India, Indonesia
Two years ago, Alibaba Cloud’s President Simon Hu declared, “Our goal is to overtake Amazon in four years, whether that’s in customers, technology, or worldwide scale.” The cloud computing arm of the...
View ArticleBMW’s Connected-Car Data Platform to Run in IBM’s Cloud
BMW is planning to use IBM’s cloud infrastructure to deploy its new platform for collecting data from connected cars. IBM announced it’s become a “pilot partner” with the German automaker this week....
View ArticleWhat IT Pros Need to Know About Multi-Cloud Security
Brought to you by IT Pro Having workloads distributed across multiple clouds and on-premises is the reality for most enterprise IT today. According to research by Enterprise Strategy Group, 75 percent...
View ArticleGartner: Amazon Isn’t Only E-Commerce Giant with Cloud Prowess
Brought to you by IT Pro The cloud services arm of Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba is emerging as a company to watch in the Infrastructure as a Service market in the U.S., according to the latest...
View ArticleDigital Realty Study: Direct Connects to Cloud Bring 50X Less Latency
For a company thinking about leveraging the public cloud as part of its data center solution, latency can be a big concern. For some, unfortunately, latency isn’t considered until after they’ve already...
View ArticleMSP Fights to Hire Scarce Cloud Engineers
Brought to you by MSPmentor At CorpInfo LLC, cloud is their business and business has been very good. So good, in fact, that the cloud-focused subsidiary of a legacy reseller has grown from fewer than...
View ArticlePacket, Qualcomm to Host World’s First 10nm Server Processor in Public Cloud...
Packet, a bare metal cloud for developers, announced that it will collaborate with Qualcomm Datacenter Technologies, Inc. to introduce the latest in server architecture innovation on the 48-core...
View ArticleGoogle Will Stop Reading Your Emails for Gmail Ads
(Bloomberg) — Google is stopping one of the most controversial advertising formats: ads inside Gmail that scan users’ email contents. The decision didn’t come from Google’s ad team, but from its cloud...
View ArticleHow to Change Executive Perceptions Around Digital Transformation
Brought to You by The WHIR We’ve come to a point where almost every organization out there has become a digital entity. To the extent that they realize this will identify just how far along they are in...
View ArticleWill You Build a Data Center Storage Tier With Next-Gen Storage? Not for a...
Despite the way SSD prices have fallen, the all-flash data center continues to be something of a rarity – although Gartner has predicted that up to a quarter of data centers might use all-flash arrays...
View ArticleAlibaba’s Increasing Cloud Data Center Footprint
It would be much too much of an understatement to say that Alibaba is on a roll — but it is. Let’s forget the company’s 2014 IPO, which raised $25 billion and was the largest IPO in history, and only...
View ArticleWal-Mart Prods Partners, Vendors to Leave AWS for Azure
Brought to you by MSPmentor The competition between Amazon Web Services (AWS) and a host of brick and mortar retailers reached a new intensity this week that could significantly impact managed services...
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