Tag: cloud clients

May 26, 2017

Rackspace has reached a deal to acquire consulting and managed cloud services company TriCore Solutions, adding its enterprise application management expertise and support, according to a Thursday announcement. Financial details of the deal, which is expected to close in June, were not disclosed. […]

May 25, 2017

In a space where shattering the status quo is the status quo, it takes a lot to stand out as a cloud startup in 2017. But with businesses of all sizes continuing to move more and more of their IT […]

May 17, 2017

There are some fresh public cloud offerings on the horizon for SAP database customers, thanks to Microsoft Azure and Amazon Web Services. Both companies have announced new infrastructure services for the HANA database software aimed at giving customers tons of […]

May 16, 2017

It wasn’t long ago that Amazon Web Services (AWS) was the de facto choice in every public cloud conversation. No matter your market or the size of your business, if your IT team was talking about capturing better economics in […]

May 15, 2017

It’s a great time to be in the SD-WAN business. IDC estimates that worldwide SD-WAN revenues will exceed $6 billion in 2020, with a compound annual growth rate of more than 90% over the 2015-to-2020 forecast period. According to IHS, […]

May 8, 2017

Thursday was a big day for Oracle’s cloud infrastructure business, with the company announcing a major cloud deal with AT&T and a partnership with Equinix to make Oracle’s cloud network accessible directly from data centers of the world’s largest retail […]

May 5, 2017

It’s a hybrid and multi-cloud world, at least according to Red Hat. So this week at its Summit in Boston the company that is known for commercializing open source projects for enterprises has taken steps to further facilitate how users […]

May 4, 2017

If you’re in a company that has a plan to move to the cloud, you’ve probably been asked what it is going to take to move an existing application to the cloud. In one of my previous roles, our CIO […]

May 1, 2017

We heard two very different perspectives on the future of on-premise enterprise data centers from top executives on this week’s earnings calls by two of the world’s largest cloud providers. Microsoft, which has a huge – and growing – on-premise […]

April 27, 2017

In announcing its Q1 earnings yesterday Juniper company executives were delighted about the company’s returns on its cloud computing directions. In the results conference call Juniper CEO Rami Rahim said cloud computing sales grew 25% year-over-year and noted that four […]

April 25, 2017

One of the most common use cases for public IaaS cloud computing is storage and that’s for good reason: Instead of buying hardware and managing it, users simply upload data to the cloud and pay for how much they put […]

April 24, 2017

As everyone knows, last week a United Airlines passenger was asked to deplane because the airline overbooked and needed his seat for a staff member, then was dragged off the plane by Chicago airport cops when he refused to leave. […]

April 24, 2017

If you follow the Gartner Magic Quadrant for infrastructure as a service (IaaS) closely each year you would have noticed that in the 2016 edition, no new vendors were added, while five vendors were removed. According to Gartner, market consolidation […]

April 21, 2017

Microsoft is negotiating a deal to purchase Cloudyn, a vendor of software that optimizes cloud spending, according to a report published Thursday on Israeli business site Calcalist. The price being discussed for the company falls between $50 million and $70 […]

April 14, 2017

On the 13th April, Atos, a global leader in digital transformation, leads the ‘Cloud Collaborative Manufacturing Networks’ (C2NET) consortium, launching the first collaborative Cloud-based platform for SMEs (Small and Medium Enterprises) in the manufacturing industry. This unique solution offers SMEs […]

April 13, 2017

Prime retail space is going vacant. The latest example of yet another retailer closing its doors is Payless Shoe Source. Payless has filed Chapter 11 and will be closing 400 stores. It’s ironic really, because their whole premise is Americans […]

March 31, 2017

In the first quarter of 2016 Amazon reported that revenue for its Web Services division grew 64% from the same period a year earlier. Salesforce.com reported a 33% increase in revenues compared to a year earlier. Meanwhile, global storage revenues […]

March 28, 2017

Cloud may be eating up more of corporate and government IT budgets, but trust in the cloud is not growing at the same pace of adoption, according to a new report by The Economist’s research unit, sponsored by Google. According […]

March 24, 2017

The future of the cloud, whether private, public or hybrid, is without doubt secured. Digitisation strategies are being rolled out across enterprises to gain all the benefits of low latency, agility, elasticity and economies of scale the cloud brings, while […]

March 22, 2017

It isn’t surprising that cloud adoption is top of mind for many. Organizations of all sizes are looking to increase their cloud usage in 2016. Much of the motivation is based on the financial benefits that cloud computing models provide. […]