Clouds and Carriers

AT&T introduced a hosted voice and collaboration service aimed at improving employee productivity. AT&T Collaborate provides a full array of cloud-based voice features and collaboration tools, such as instant messaging...

Art Gilliland, CEO of Skyport Systems, discusses Application, Virtualization, Security and the Cloud at RSA 2016. When you think about isolating applications or workloads, you want to be able to...

by Leon Adato, Head Geek, SolarWinds As IT professionals, we know our way around data centers like the backs of our hands. But what consistently surprises me when I speak...

Cisco agreed to acquire CliQr Technologies, a start-up offering an application-defined cloud orchestration platform to model, deploy and manage applications across bare metal, virtualized and container environments. Cisco will pay...

The Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) Top Threats Working Group published a report listing The Treacherous 12: Cloud Computing Top Threats in 2016: Data Breaches Weak Identity, Credential and Access Management...

Trend Micro has extended its Cloud App Security solution to Box, Dropbox and Google Drive. Cloud App Security capabilities include: Guards against advanced threats with sandbox malware analysis Uses DLP...

by Boris Goldberg, co-founder of Cloudyn Predictions from 2014 suggested that enterprises would flock to the cloud, which actually happened. The spectacular growth that AWS has already enjoyed along with...

Ericsson announced  a global business, technology and services alliance with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to accelerate cloud transformation for telecoms service providers. Specifically, Ericsson is creating a global team of...

IBM and VMware announced a strategic partnership designed to help enterprises take better advantage of the cloud. Some key points: IBM and VMware have jointly designed an architecture and cloud...

IBM announced its fourth major heal data-related acquisition in the part year: Truven Health Analytics, a leading provider of cloud-based healthcare data, analytics and insights.  The price was $2.6 billion....

Red Hat has expanded its alliance with Google to deliver Red Hat Gluster Storage on Google Cloud Platform. Red Hat Gluster Storage is a shared-nothing, scale-out solution available to Google...

Vera, a start-up based in Palo Alto, California secured $17 million in Series B funding for its "zero-touch, zero-friction data protection and encryption solution that secures and tracks any digital...

IBM unveiled a new mainframe is enabled and optimized for hybrid cloud environments for mid-sized organizations. Some highlights of the new system: Security embedded into hardware – The new z13s...