Clouds and Carriers

IBM SoftLayer has opened a second cloud data center in the Netherlands, located in Almere, just outside of Amsterdam. The new data center is securely connected by private network to...

CenturyLink has acquired Orchestrate, a company that offers a fully managed database service. Financial terms were not disclosed. CenturyLink said the acquisition brings a new Database-as-a-Service (DBaaS) to its Cloud...

Cloud Raxak, a start-up based in Los Gatos, California, introduced its Cloud Raxak Protect, a cloud-based security compliance service for helping IT organizations and application development teams to secure and...

Docker has raised $95 million of Series D funding to boost its container platform for distributing applications. The company said the financing, which builds on a $40 million funding round...

Google is moving further and faster into enterprise networking services.  The opportunity is to leverage a global network footprint – over 70 points of presence across 33 countries – to...

Cloud has become "the new normal" and you might as well embrace it instead of trying to fight gravity, said Andy Jassy, SVP at Amazon.com, speaking at the company's AWS...

Singtel has agreed to acquire Trustwave, a U.S.-based provider of managed security services provider for approximately US$850 million. Trustwave's cloud-based TrustKeeper platform covers three main areas – threat management, vulnerability...

by Scott Geng, CTO of Egenera The past decade has been a time of serious change in the technology industry with the advent of virtualization and cloud computing. Virtualization, by...

Egenera launched a wholesale, multi-cloud management platform that enables managed service providers and VARs to offer hybrid cloud services while leveraging the resources of Amazon Web Services and the Equinix...

Telstra will sell IBM's SoftLayer Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) platform from IBM. Under the agreement, Telstra customers will have access to SoftLayer’s highly secure and agile cloud infrastructure. IBM recently opened new...

The Weather Company will shift its massive weather data services platform to the IBM Cloud and integrate its data with IBM analytics and cloud services. The global alliance with IBM...

NTT Communications is preparing to launch a unified-communication cloud service on April 13 called Arcstar UCaaS Microsoft Type. Arcstar UCaaS Microsoft® Type leverages Microsoft Lync for unified communication on the...

Google introduced Cloud Launcher -- a way for developers to launch more than 120 popular open source packages configured by Bitnami or Google Click-to-Deploy for Google Cloud Platform. Cloud Launcher...