Clouds and Carriers

IBM is launching a Spark-as-a-Service offering on Bluemix following a successful 13-week Beta program with more than 4,600 developers using it to build intelligent business and consumer apps fueled by...

Oracle and Intel announced a special partnership aimed at migrating customers running Oracle databases on Intel Power Systems to new platform based on Intel Xeon silicon. The companies said they...

ZeroStack, a start-up based in Mountain View, California announced $16 million in new funding for its scale-out private cloud that converges compute, storage, networking and management services. The ZeroStack Cloud...

Dell announced a new hybrid cloud solution featuring technology jointly developed with Microsoft. The Dell Hybrid Cloud System for Microsoft, which is built around the new Microsoft Cloud Platform System...

SAP has exceeded 1,300 customers for its Business Suite 4 SAP HANA (SAP S/4HANA), which launched in February 2015. SAP S/4HANA is the company's next-generation business suite for the digital...

IBM's Bluemix cloud computing platform will be available in China via a collaboration with 21Vianet Group, Inc., a leading carrier-neutral internet data center services provider in China. As part of...

The OpenStack Foundation announced the 12th version of the most widely deployed open source software for building clouds. The OpenStack Liberty release, which is now available for download, brings a...

Amazon Web Services announced a new managed cloud service provides the infrastructure for Internet of Things (IoT) applications and the ability to securely interact with cloud services and with other...

Amazon Web Services continues to ramp up in services, availability regions, data centers, applications, customers and revenue. At its AWS re:Invent conference in Las Vegas, Andy Jassy, SVP of Amazon...

Equinix and its professional services arm, Nimbo , announced two solutions to help enterprises migrate to Amazon Web Services (AWS). The AWS Direct Connect Converged Infrastructure bundles feature deployment tools...

Sungard Availability Services will offer its disaster recovery solutions on Amazon Web Services (AWS). The new Sungard AS AWS Recovery Solution allows Sungard AS to expand its offerings to provide...

NTT Communications is developing an artificial-intelligence (AI) technology called Time-series Deep Learning  that analyzes time-series video data to identify specific human motions with high precision. The goal is to analyze...

EVRY, the Nordic IT services firm, awarded a 10-year contract to IBM to provide global cloud infrastructure and services.  Under the deal, which is valued at US$1 billion over the...