Clouds and Carriers

VMware introduced its unified compute/storage/networking platform for the hybrid cloud. The goal is to create one consistent environment across the private and public cloud to run, protect and manage any...

eBay Enterprise has selected IBM's Softlayer hybrid cloud platform to enhance its Magento Hosting Partner ecosystem to further expand its global scope and reach. Magento is an ecommerce platform used...

SolarWinds, which specializes in IT performance management solutions, has acquired Librato, a San Francisco-based cloud monitoring company, for a cash purchase price of $40 million. Librato currently enables full-stack performance...

VMware will deliver Google Cloud Platform services via its vCloud Air platform beginning later this year. Existing VMware vCloud Air customers will have access to the new services under their...

Cloud data centers are expected to comprise almost 50 percent of server unit shipments by 2018, according to a new report by Dell'Oro Group. Server unit shipments are expected to...

In its quarterly financial report, Microsoft highlighted its growth rate in cloud services, notably: Office 365 Home and Personal subscribers increased to over 9.2 million, up 30% sequentially over prior...

by Lee Kestler, DuPont Fabros Technology In the immortal words of Veruca Salt from Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory, “Don’t care how. I want it now!” That pretty much...

In their first day of trading, shares in Box (NYSE:BOX) surged 66% over the IPO price of $14.00 per share to close the day at $23.23. Box offered 12,500,000 shares...

A newly opened Google Container Registry service is now available in beta for the secure hosting, sharing, and management of private container repositories.   The registry service hosts private images...

Ravello Systems, a start-up based in Palo Alto, California, raised $28 million in third round funding for its nested virtualization powered cloud service. Ravello, which was founded in 2011 by...

Equinix has acquired Nimbo, a professional services company focused primarily on helping enterprises develop and implement hybrid cloud IT architectures. Financial terms were not disclosed. Nimbo, which is a certified...

Apcera, a start-up backed by Ericsson that offers a Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) that deploys, orchestrates and governs workloads on premise and in the cloud, announced a partnership with Tropo to provide...

The new facility, located in Querétaro (near Mexico City) strengthens IBM Cloud’s presence in Latin America by offering data residency within the region, even more redundancy in the Americas, and...