Clouds and Carriers

Vendor revenue from sales of infrastructure products (server, storage, and Ethernet switch) for cloud IT, including public and private cloud, grew by 8.1% year over year to $8.4 billion in...

BT announced immediate availability of Trend Micro’s Deep Security data centre solution on BT’s Cloud Compute platform, enabling protection for physical, virtual, and cloud servers from a single integrated platform,...

Panzura, a start-up based in Campbell, California, raised $32 million in new venture funding for its hybrid cloud storage solutions. Panzura said its hybrid cloud storage software seamlessly combines the...

by Lori MacVittie, Technology Evangelist, F5 Networks In 2016, IT professionals saw major shifts in the cloud computing industry, from developing more sophisticated approaches to application delivery to discovering the...

Bitglass, a start-up based in Campbell, California, raised $45 million in series C funding for its Cloud Access Security Broker (CASB) solution. In addition to new investor Future Fund, existing...

The Google Cloud Platform (GCP) is now part of Cloud Foundry. Google noted that it has been very active this year with the Cloud Foundry community, including the delivery of...

Alibaba Cloud for Japan is ready for commercial launch on December 15, 2016. The service is provided by SB Cloud Corporation, which is a joint venture between SoftBank Corp. and...

Google Cloud Platform is now officially an IBM Eligible Public Cloud, enabling users to run a wide range of IBM software SKUs on Google Compute Engine with existing licenses. In...

Chef's commercial platform have been integrated into a new managed service provided, supported, and backed by Amazon Web Service (AWS). Chef's tools aid in configuring, deploying, and scaling cloud and...

Juniper Networks agreed to acquire AppFormix, a start-up based in San Jose, California, specializing in cloud operations management for enterprise devops teams. Financial terms were not disclosed. The AppFormix software...

Here are some highlights of the AWS re:Invent 2016 Tuesday Night keynote with James Hamilton, VP & Distinguished Engineer, AWS. https://live.awsevents.com/en.html AWS continues to build at a crazy pace.. adding...

Microsoft announced a number of big moves to bolster its standing with the open source community, including: joining the Linux Foundation as a Platinum Member welcoming Google to the independent...

Microsoft announced a new Azure Bot service powered by the Microsoft Bot Framework and serverless compute in Microsoft Azure. The new Azure Bot Service helps developers to build, connect, deploy...