Clouds and Carriers

Amazon Web Services remains on a fast growth track and now has over one million active customers. Traffic, as measured in petabytes, on the Amazon S3 cloud storage service is...

Zayo and Digital Realty announced an alliance agreement to expand the Digital Realty direct connect cloud offering. Under the pact, Digital Realty customers will have the ability to access Zayo’s...

Altair launched its HyperWorks Unlimited - Virtual (HWUL-V) computer-aided engineering (CAE) suite for Amazon Web Services (AWS). HWUL-V integrates unlimited use of the HyperWorks computer-aided engineering (CAE) suite with PBS...

Rackspace reported net revenue for the third quarter of 2014 was $460 million, up 4.2 percent from the previous quarter and 18.3 percent from the third quarter of 2013. Net...

Equinix, IX Reach, Level 3, TATA Communications, Telx, Verizon, and Zayo are the initial service providers supporting the newly launched Google Cloud Interconnect service. Google Cloud Interconnect provides dedicated connections...

Equinix is launching direct access to Google Cloud Platform in 15 markets worldwide via its Equinix Cloud Exchange. Specifically, Equinix will offer up to a 10Gb connection to Google cloud...

By 2018, global data center traffic will reach 8.6 zettabytes per year with 76% of all data center traffic originating in the cloud, according to the newly published Cisco Global...

The vast majority of IT decision makers plan to implement multi-cloud architectures in the coming year, according to a survey conducted by Dimensional Research and sponsored by  +Equinix.  The survey looked...

Google is accelerating its push into enterprise cloud services. At an event in San Francisco, Google announced important updates to its Cloud Platform. Here are some highlights. Google Container Engine...

Siaras, a start-up based in Silicon Valley and Burnaby, BC, unveiled its cloudScape software platform for enabling intercloud WAN connectivity by leveraging SDN WAN orchestration from a wide variety of...

Internap is taking its OpenStack-powered AgileCLOUD footprint to Amsterdam, furthering its positioning as a leading OpenStack public cloud provider. The Amsterdam facility includes Internap’s bare-metal services.  In addition to Amsterdam,...

IBM and Tencent Cloud announced an alliance to collaborate on providing public cloud with Software-as-a-Service solutions for enterprises in China. The partnership will focus on emerging small and medium enterprises...

Microsoft announced the availability of ant-malware for Azure Cloud Services and Virtual Machines, providing real time protection from the latest threats at no additional charge. The Microsoft Antimalware Client and...