Clouds and Carriers

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...

Microsoft announced a number of new Azure networking capabilities and partnerships aimed at enabling better hyper-scale and enterprise grade applications in public and hybrid cloud environments. New capabilities and partners...

Tata Communications, which operates one of the most advanced and largest submarine cable networks and a Tier-1 IP network, launched its "IZO" cloud enablement platform for connecting network, data center...

Hitachi Data Systems (HDS) announced an agreement with Equinix to offer its Hitachi Cloud - Compute as a Service solution inside Equinix International Business Exchange data centers. HDS will offer...

EMC outlined its vision for the Enterprise Hybrid Cloud, where an IT-as-a-Service model enables seamless interconnectivity between private data centers and public clouds, including VMware vCloud Air, Microsoft Azure, Amazon...

EMC announced the acquisition of three start-ups focused on enterprise cloud networking: Cloudscaling, a start-up based in San Francisco, developing an OpenStack-powered cloud infrastructure system for enterprises. Cloudscaling's  Open Cloud...

Chelsio Communications announced that its T5 Adapters RDMA over Ethernet solution will operate in Microsoft's Cloud Platform System (CPS), which lets customers operate a scalable cloud built from Azure. Chelsio's...

TierPoint, which operates 141,000 square feet of raised-floor data center space across 7 U.S. cities, announced its acquisition of Xand, a privately-held provider of colocation, cloud, disaster recovery and managed...

IBM announced a new set of data services for the IBM Cloud: IBM DataWorks – a set of cloud-based data refinery services that shape, cleanse, match and secure data. The...

Microsoft will begin offering unlimited OneDrive cloud storage at no additional cost to all Office 365 paid subscribers. The offer is being rolled out incrementally starting with Office 365 Home,...

IBM is preparing to open a new SoftLayer cloud center in Paris, France, before the end of this year. IBM Cloud will also provide cloud infrastructure services for customers and...

VCE will become an EMC business as Cisco agrees to sell all but 10% of its equity stake in the joint venture to EMC. VCE is the joint venture formed...