Clouds and Carriers

Amazon Web Services (AWS) introduced higher performance and lower cost Dense Compute Nodes for its Amazon Redshift managed, SQL-based data warehousing service. The new SSD-based storage option is available in...

Verizon Enterprise Solutions plans to deploy the SAP HANA platform in Verizon's data centers, making it available to customers across Verizon's cloud offerings, including eCloud, Managed Hosting and the new...

Savvis has adopted the CenturyLink Technology Solutions brand. It continues to offer a broad set of colocation, managed services, cloud and network offerings. “We are pleased to become CenturyLink Technology...

IBM introduced the sixth generation of its enterprise X-Architecture for System x and PureSystems servers, featuring optimized x86-based systems for analytics and cloud applications. Some highlights of the X6 architecture:...

Intel is launching a "Powered by Intel Cloud Technology" initiative to identify cloud service providers that are running Intel-based infrastructure. The Intel Cloud Technology program builds on the collaboration announced...

There is a significant gap in public cloud infrastructure concerns between the cloud-wise, organizations that are currently using cloud services, and the cloud-wary, organizations that are not using cloud services...

by Brian Lillie, CIO, Equinix It’s that time of the year when experts gaze into their crystal balls, offering up predictions on what the next year has in store. As...

Amazon Web Services announced two new edge locations for its CloudFront and Route 53 services - Taipei and Rio de Janeiro.  This is AWS' first edge location in Taiwan and...

Verizon Enterprise Solutions announced an hourly billing option for accessing Oracle Database and Oracle Fusion Middleware on the Verizon cloud infrastructure.  Customers can bring their own Oracle licenses to the...

SAP delivered strong revenue growth in 2013. Full year non-IFRS software and cloud subscription revenue increased 10% at constant currencies (5% at actual currencies to €5.3 billion). Non-IFRS software and...

IBM unveiled three new Watson services delivered over the cloud.  The company has established a new IBM Watson Group to build additional cognitive computing services, software and apps into the...

Peak (formerly PeakColo) secured $4 million in new funding for its enterprise-class IaaS cloud services for channel partners. Peak offers cloud computing to its large ecosystem of value-added resellers (VARS),...

Oracle agreed to acquire Corente, a start-up developing software-defined WAN virtualization technology, for an undisclosed sum.  Oracle already offers a LAN virtualization platform, so the deal extends its SDN portfolio...