Platform9 Raises $22M to Make Open Source Cloud Infrastructure Tech Easier
Platform9, a startup whose Software-as-a-Service platform takes much of the pain out of using open source cloud infrastructure technologies, has raised $22 million in Series C funding. It supports...
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Microsoft Acquires Cloud Management Company Cloudyn
Brought to you by IT Pro Today Microsoft announced that it has acquired the Israel based company Cloudyn which offers management and monitoring tools for companies to keep an eye on their cloud service...
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Coming Microsoft Reorg to Support Cloud-First Strategy: Report
Brought to you by IT Pro Microsoft is expected to unveil a business reorganization plan on July 5 that will support its shift towards a cloud-first organization, according to a report Friday by the...
View ArticleOracle’s Hurd Bullish on Cloud Business, Says Enterprise Market Largely Untapped
Oracle co-CEO Mark Hurd said enterprises have yet to spend most of the money they will eventually spend on cloud services that will replace their on-premises data centers, implying that even though...
View ArticleGoogle Hopes Nutanix Can Unlock the Enterprise Data Center for Its Cloud...
Google Cloud Platform’s new partnership with Nutanix, announced last week at the Nutanix .NEXT conference, at first glance seems to be a win for both companies. The agreement promises seamless...
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Baidu Partners with NVIDIA to Apply AI Across Cloud, Autonomous Vehicles
Brought to you by IT Pro Chinese internet search and cloud company Baidu rallied in premarket trade on Wednesday after it detailed a partnership with Santa Clara-based chipmaker NVIDIA to expand...
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Azure Stack to Ship in September; Hardware on Sale Starting Today
Brought to you by IT Pro Azure Stack will finally be ready to ship in September. Microsoft announced that its partners Dell EMC, HPE and Lenovo are taking orders as of Monday. Microsoft made the...
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GCP Expands Data Center Reach to London
The Google Cloud Platform is growing, with new data centers popping up everywhere. Yesterday it announced that a new Google data center in London is now open for business. This comes on the heels of...
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Here’s How Azure Stack Will Integrate into Your Data Center
Azure Stack, the turnkey hybrid cloud system that you can now order from server vendors like Dell EMC and Hewlett Packard Enterprise or get as a managed service from providers like Avanade on hardware...
View ArticleGoogle’s Quantum Computing Push Opens New Front in Cloud Battle
Mark Bergen (Bloomberg) — For years, Google has poured time and money into one of the most ambitious dreams of modern technology: building a working quantum computer. Now the company is thinking of...
View ArticleReport: VMware, AWS Mulling Joint Data Center Software Product
Amazon Web Services and VMware are in talks about potentially teaming up on developing a data center software product, The Information reported, citing anonymous sources. No details about what that...
View ArticleOracle to Add 1,000 Employees in European Cloud Push
Jeremy Kahn (Bloomberg) — Oracle Corp. is hiring 1,000 employees in Europe, the Middle East and Africa as it expands its cloud computing services in the region. The company is looking for workers with...
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Google Designs Data Center Appliance to Ship Client Data
For a large enterprise, one of the costliest and most time-consuming steps in moving to the cloud is transferring the enormous amount of data stored in its on-premises data centers to its cloud...
View ArticleCloud Market Forecast to Hit $200B by 2020
With cloud providers IBM, Microsoft, and Google releasing their quarterly financials within the week, and Amazon soon to follow, the folks at Synergy Research Group have polished their crystal ball in...
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Google Brings Tech That Made YouTube Faster to Its Cloud Services
Alphabet subsidiary Google is so confident in its new approach to handling internet-scale network congestion problems that it is now bringing the technology to Google Cloud Platform, its infrastructure...
View ArticleMicrosoft Profit Tops Estimates as Cloud Growth Marches On
Dina Bass (Bloomberg) — Microsoft Corp.’s turnaround plan got back on track in the latest quarter, buoyed by rising sales of internet-based software and services. Profit in the fiscal fourth quarter...
View ArticleIBM Is Worst Performer on Dow as Cloud Services Unit Falters
Gerrit De Vynck (Bloomberg) — IBM fell the most in three months after reporting revenue that missed estimates, with sales in a key unit declining for the second consecutive period. The quarterly...
View ArticleOracle Wants Its Cloud to Grow Inside Your Data Centers
Taking a different approach to hybrid cloud than some of its biggest competitors, Oracle has substantially beefed up the capabilities of its on-premises cloud product called Oracle Cloud at Customer....
View ArticleGoDaddy Drops Curtain on Its Cloud Business… Again
GoDaddy is shuttering Cloud Servers, its public cloud service. I know what you’re thinking. “GoDaddy is in the public cloud business?” Therein might lie the problem. Launched only a year ago, Cloud...
View ArticleGoogle Says It’s Closing More Big Enterprise Cloud Deals than Ever
Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai said the company’s subsidiary Google saw “impressive growth” in its public cloud infrastructure services business in the second quarter, illustrated by the number of...
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