Alibaba Rack Up 156% Revenue Growth for AliCloud
Alibaba cited 156% YoY revenue for Aliyun, its cloud division, where the segment adjusted EBITA narrowed to $(24) million. The figure puts Aliyun on a faster growth trajectory than AWS...
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Rackspace’s OpenStack Milestone: 6 Years, One Billion Server Hours
Rackspace announced a huge milestone: reaching one billion server hours operating production-ready OpenStack clouds for many of the world's largest and most recognized companies. Rackspace collaborated with NASA to develop...
IDC: Worldwide Public Cloud Services to Hit $195 Billion by 2020
Worldwide revenues from public cloud services reaching more than $195 billion in 2020 -- more than double the $96.5 billion in revenues forecast for 2016, according to an updated Worldwide...
Microsoft Azure Previews Nvidia GPU VMs
Microsoft is getting ready to offer Azure N-Series Virtual Machines, billed as "the fastest GPUs in the public cloud," powered by NVIDIA’s GPUs. The service will enable users to run...
Velostrata 2.0 Accelerates Workload Migration to AWS and Azure
Velostrata, a start-up based in San Mateo, California, released version 2.0 of its solution for migrating enterprise workloads to public clouds, especially stateful workloads like ERP, collaboration, middleware, OLTP, Oracle...
IHS Scorecard Evaluates Top Seven Public Clouds
IHS Markit published excerpts from its new Cloud IT Infrastructure Service Provider Scorecard, which profiles and analyzes the top seven revenue producers for cloud IT infrastructure services: Amazon (AWS), CenturyLink,...
Red Hat Enhances Lifecycle Mgt Tool for Clouds and Containers
Red Hat released an updated version of its systems lifecycle management tool (Red Hat Satellite 6.2) for physical, virtual, and private and public cloud environments. In this release, Red Hat...
AWS Grew 58% YoY in Q2, Reaching $2.9 Billion in Sales
In its Q2 financial report, Amazon revealed that revenue for Amazon Web Services (AWS) reached $2.886 billion, up 58% year over year. The division posted operating income of $718 million....
Oracle to Acquire NetSuite for Enterprise Resource Planning
Oracle agreed to acquire NetSuite (NYSE: N), for $109.00 per share in cash, or approximately $9.3 billion. NetSuite provides a suite of cloud-based financials / Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) and...
Momentum Builds for Central Office Re-architected as a Data Center Project (CORD)
The Central Office Re-architected as a Data Center (CORD) initiative, which was initially developed by ON.Lab as a use case for the ONOS open source SDN operating system, will now...
Is Microsoft on track to reach its stated goal of $20 billion in annual revenues from the cloud by FY2018?
The big message from Microsoft's quarterly results issued this week is that the Microsoft cloud is winning significant customer support and is now on a $12 billion annual run rate. ...
Google Activates Oregon Cloud Data Center
Google announced the activation of its Oregon Cloud Region (us-west1) data center. The region initially includes three offerings: Google Compute Engine, Google Cloud Storage and Google Container Engine, and features...
Cedexis Measures Latencies of Major U.S. Public Clouds
Cedexis, which specializes in Internet performance monitoring and optimization, released data measuring the performance of major clouds in the U.S. during March/April 2016. The data includes Real End User Measurements...
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