Clouds and Carriers

Decisions concerning the security of data in the cloud has shifted from the IT room to the boardroom, according to a newly published survey, titled Cloud Adoption, Practices and Priorities...

Verizon Enterprise completed a major upgrade to its cloud infrastructure and storage systems that involved approximately a 40-hour planned outage for its cloud customers. The new functionality allows Verizon to...

IBM officially opened its first cloud data center with SoftLayer in Germany.  The new facility in Frankfurt provides customers with a local cloud center to help them meet Germany and...

NTT Communications activated a new API Gateway that enables customers and partner companies to use their own systems to directly view and control information to operate and maintain business services....

by Chris Sharp, Equinix VP of Cloud Innovation  Those enterprises deploying hybrid and multicloud infrastructures will be the ones to watch in 2015 and beyond. According to Gartner, global cloud...

Verizon Enterprise Solutions' Secure Cloud Interconnect (SCI) service is now delivering HP Helion Managed Cloud Service and the Salesforce Customer Success Platform. The connectivity features dynamic bandwidth allocation, strong security...

Orange Business Services has been selected to deploy and manage a private cloud for the European Space Agency. ESA operates from eight sites across Europe with 2,200 staff working in...

A new Cloud Foundry Foundation has been established with the aim of promoting a global standard for open Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS).  The effort will be managed as a Linux Foundation Collaborative...

Accenture and Microsoft officially introduced the Accenture Hybrid Cloud Solution for Microsoft Azure, aiming to bring new capabilities, economics and innovation to the enterprise infrastructure and applications. “Our expanded relationship...

Microsoft announced general availability of its Azure Government cloud service. Key attributes include: Isolation – All aspects of Microsoft Azure Government’s hyperscale infrastructure, including the data center, hardware, network and...

IBM was awarded U.S. Patent #8,676,981 B2 "Routing Service Requests Based on Lowest Actual Cost within a Federated Virtual Service Cloud."  The company said the technique described by this patent...

3M is launching a 3D digital scanner service for the dental market using Orange Business Services' secure cloud platform in Europe. 3M and Orange Business Services designed an advanced solution...

CenturyLink has acquired DataGardens, a provider of Disaster Recovery-as-a-Service (DRaaS), for an undisclosed sum. DataGardens takes a cloud approach to mirror physical or virtual machine data. Its flagship software suite,...