Tag: cloud clients

March 12, 2020

A few months ago, Atlassian acquired Code Barrel, the Sydney-based company behind the popular Automation for Jira low-code tool for — you guessed it — automating many aspects of Jira. Unsurprisingly, Atlassian then set out to integrate many of these […]

February 10, 2020

The venture capital world is investing more capital into software-as-a-service companies (SaaS), despite cutting the number of deals it executes within the startup category, according to Crunchbase data. The results echo other venture data we’ve explored recently, including a look […]

February 6, 2020

The 40 year-old firm Teradata published strong fourth quarter financial results on Thursday, beating market estimates thanks to its ongoing transition to a recurring revenue model. The company also reported that it closed out 2019 by doubling its cloud customers. […]

December 24, 2019

Hello and welcome back to our regular morning look at private companies, public markets and the gray space in between. Today, something short. Continuing our loose collection of look backs of the past year, it’s worth remembering two related facts. […]

October 7, 2019

I had a really big document retrieval challenge this month. Fortunately, Google Drive came to my rescue. Here’s the full story. One of the things that’s become apparent to me as I continue my journey in #adulting is that it’s […]

April 3, 2018

What would your organization do if your cloud provider were to go out of business? What happens if your cloud provider suddenly stops offering critical services that your organization requires for its business to function properly? Businesses need to start […]

February 26, 2018

The largest cloud providers only increased their overall dominance in 2017, expanding share in a market still growing at an astronomical rate, according to a report released Friday by Synergy Research Group. Spending on cloud infrastructure services (IaaS, PaaS and […]

January 24, 2018

Accelerite started shipping Tuesday its Rovius Cloud pre-installed on validated Dell hardware, the startup’s first integrated solution for private cloud deployment. The “lightweight OEM relationship with Dell” simplifies the acquisition process for customers looking to deploy a low-cost, easily scalable […]

January 16, 2018

Oracle Corp.’s streak of revenue gains continued for a fifth straight quarter, buoyed by corporate demand for cloud-based software. Adjusted sales rose 7 percent to $9.21 billion in the fiscal first quarter, exceeding analysts’ estimates, as sales of cloud-based products […]

January 15, 2018

Cogeco Peer 1, a global provider of essential business-to-business products and services, today is adding Managed Microsoft Azure Services to its global cloud portfolio, allowing customers to select from a fully customizable list of Azure expertise and scalable services. “With […]

January 2, 2018

Today at VMworld® Europe 2017, IBM (NYSE: IBM) and VMware, Inc. (NYSE: VMW) announced that more than 1,400 enterprises in nearly every industry around the world are extending their VMware environments to the IBM Cloud. Through the partnership, clients such as Honeywell International […]

December 11, 2017

A decline in data center hardware spending by major cloud providers could be more than a temporary blip for major networkers like Juniper Networks. That’s the view of some analysts and company insiders, who suggest that years-long strategic plans by […]

December 4, 2017

As of 2017, the concept of “cloud” has become more of a norm for companies and organizations worldwide. Most now use cloud service providers (CSPs) for some part of their business, and cloud has grown from simply being an IT […]

September 18, 2017

If you’re responsible for management of your company’s G Suite application, (previously/otherwise known as Google Apps for Business), you’ll appreciate its ease of use, reliability and mobile friendly features. Yet even though G Suite is a comprehensive, intuitive set of […]

September 7, 2017

IBM announced today that the U.S. Army’s Logistics Support Activity (LOGSA) awarded IBM a contract to continue providing cloud services, software development and cognitive computing, constituting the technical infrastructure for one of the U.S. federal government’s biggest logistics systems. The […]

September 7, 2017

HPE on Tuesday surprised Wall Street with better-than-expected financial results for the fiscal 2017 third quarter ended July 31, and the rest of the industry with an announcement that it plans to acquire Cloud Technology Partners (CTP). Herein I examine the fiscal […]

August 31, 2017

The latest Garter Magic Quadrant report for cloud infrastructure is out. Usually, the release of a Magic Quadrant means I have to correct its findings when talking to my clients. Enterprises take these as gospel, managing by Magic Quadrant—and as […]

August 29, 2017

Cloud access security broker (CASB) Netskope has closed a $100 million funding round to bring its enterprise cloud security platform to more businesses, the company announced Tuesday. The oversubscribed Series E round was led by existing investors Lightspeed Venture Partners […]

June 22, 2017

Building on the positive response to its Identity-based Security Operation Center (SOC) cloud services, Oracle today announced a series of developments that enhance the portfolio’s sophisticated machine learning, artificial intelligence and contextual awareness technologies. This includes introducing the new Adaptive […]

May 30, 2017

Cray Research is now offering its Urika-GX supercomputer as a cloud computing service, targeted at life-sciences customers looking for compute cycles to solve some heavy problems. This offering, done with cloud infrastructure provider Markley, makes Cray one of the last […]