Packet Says Your Data Center Shouldn’t Have an Opinion
Packet, the New York-based startup that provides dedicated high-performance bare-metal servers as a cloud service similar to AWS or Azure, has added 11 data center locations around the world to its...
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Alphabet Q2 2017: Enterprise Efforts Pay Off for Google Cloud
Brought to you by IT Pro Not long after Google Cloud senior vice president Diane Greene said that in the next five years it could overtake Amazon Web Services (AWS) as the top hyperscale cloud...
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Microsoft Announces Azure Containers Instances (ACI) for Linux
Brought to you by IT Pro Microsoft continues to innovate in the area of its Azure Containers service with today’s announcement of new Azur Container Instances (ACI). Corey Sanders, Microsoft’s Director...
View ArticleGigaSpaces Spins Off Cloudify, Its Open Source Cloud Orchestration Unit
GigaSpaces Technologies announced today that its business unit for Cloudify, the open source orchestration and cloud management platform, will be spun off into a new company focused on its core markets...
View ArticleDigital Realty Buys Stake in Cloud Connectivity Enabler Megaport
Digital Realty Trust has acquired a small stake in Megaport, the Australian technology firm that makes it easy for companies to connect their servers to the networks of top cloud providers, such as...
View ArticleCloud Provider Spend on Intel Data Center Chips up by One-Third in Q2
Ian King (Bloomberg) — Intel Corp. has a message for investors who are betting the semiconductor maker’s dominance is waning: Not so fast. The company’s Data Center Group — which sells server chips, a...
View ArticleHere’s What Wall Street Is Saying About Amazon’s Earnings
(Bloomberg) — Amazon.com Inc. shares are lower after the company forecast a potential quarterly loss for the first time in two years, a reminder to investors that its reshaping of the worlds of...
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Microsoft Backs Kubernetes with Cloud Native Membership
Brought to you by IT Pro It’s happened again. Microsoft has joined yet another open source group. Whatever happened to Redmond’s long held belief that open source is a cancer? Times change, and...
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DCK 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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Microsoft’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...
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Are 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 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...
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As 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 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...
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AWS 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 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...
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Cloud 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...
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Microsoft 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...
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Microsoft 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...
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In 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...
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