Clouds and Carriers

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...

GTT Communications agree to acquire Hibernia Networks, which owns the new Hibernia Express transatlantic cable systems and other terrestrial and undersea fiber assets, for $590 million.  The deal consists of...

Microsoft Azure’s Government Cloud has expanded its FedRAMP Provisional Authorization to Operate (P-ATO) with the addition of five new offerings: Azure Service Bus: Provides cloud-enabled communication with enterprise messaging and...

Velostrata, which specializes in cloud workload mobility, has added key new features to its software aimed at bringing  automation, acceleration and simplicity to public cloud adoption. The update adds new...

Fortinet and Microsoft announced an extension of their partnership to protect the cloud environments of their joint government customers. Specifically, Fortinet’s Security Fabric solutions for the cloud have been released...

Revenues for Amazon Web Services reached $3.231 billion in Q3 2016, up 55% year over year. Operating income at AWS reached $861 million, up 101% year over year. Trailing Twelve...

Vendors at this week's OpenStack Summit in Barcelona showcased application portability across a diversity of OpenStack public and private clouds. The Community Interop Challenge took a holistic approach to prove...

IBM introduced new Watson-powered cognitive services for unlocking data-rich insights for video content and audiences. The idea is to apply cognitive technology for mining and analyzing the complex data in...

Mirantis and NTT Communications will partner to offer fully managed Private OpenStack as a service in NTT Com Enterprise Cloud and its data center services across the globe. Specifically, NTT...

AWS announced the ability to run Windows Server 2016 on Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) in all AWS regions globally.  The lastest version of Windows Server is supported in four...

Amazon Web Services and VMware announced a strategic alliance to drive hybrid cloud services for enterprise customers. Under the alliance, "VMware Cloud on AWS" will be the primary public cloud...

Aliyun, the cloud computing arm of Alibaba Group, and Docker announced a commercial agreement to provide a Docker image store and distribution for Docker Hub on Alibaba Cloud. In addition,...