Tag: cloud clients

March 17, 2017

While the cloud is helping businesses reduce costs, consider for instance that in 2011 starting an internet company cost around $5,000 as opposed to the $5 million price tag of 2000, it’s also encouraging revenue growth. In less than a […]

March 14, 2017

Most startups don’t have the budget, or the need, for enterprise software – or an elaborate website. But as your business grows, adding products or services, as well as customers and employees, it makes sense to invest in technology to […]

March 13, 2017

Now that we are a little more than halfway through 2016, many experts are beginning to make their predictions about cloud computing for the rest of the year and beyond. While many of the trends aren’t too unexpected (the ever […]

February 17, 2017

Surprising no one, Gartner said this week that cloud computing will be one of the “most disruptive forces of IT spending since the early days of the digital age.” Just how disruptive? The research firm predicts that more than $1 […]

November 23, 2016

Larry Ellison has a message for Amazon Web Services: Oracle is going to give Amazon a run for its money in the cloud market. “Amazon’s lead is over,” he said during his keynote address at the OpenWorld conference in San […]

November 22, 2016

When whistleblower Edward Snowden shocked the world in 2013 by revealing that the NSA was allegedly siphoning data from U.S. internet companies, pundits proclaimed that winter was coming for American cloud vendors in Europe. Evidence now suggests those fears may […]

November 18, 2016

Businesses and organizations continue to move more of their IT processes to cloud-based systems. While that’s certainly boosting the fortunes of major IT vendors like Amazon Web Services, Microsoft, Google and Oracle, it’s also creating opportunities for startups offering technology […]

October 4, 2016

Google, despite years of trying to crack into the enterprise cloud computing market, is still way behind Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure and by some calculations, IBM SoftLayer. Until recently, Google’s highest profile cloud customer was Snapchat, a photo-sharing service […]

September 26, 2016

Google’s cloud services will be used to test blockchain technologies for banks, an area where IBM, Microsoft and Amazon have been courting clients for the past year. Royal Bank of Scotland Group has employed Google servers in a trial of […]

September 15, 2016

Mirantis today announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire TCP Cloud. Headquartered in Prague, Czech Republic, TCP Cloud employs 30 people and specializes in managed services for OpenStack, OpenContrail and Kubernetes. The acquisition will support Mirantis’ […]

September 15, 2016

Communications technology business TeleWare has today announced that at midday on the 13th September, it was able to route, record and analyse a call in real-time through Microsoft’s Azure cloud computing platform in a fully encrypted, compliant environment. Microsoft has […]

August 29, 2016

After a month of renewed speculation about an acquisition, a group of investors led by Apollo Global Management said Friday they had agreed to purchase Rackspace Hosting for $4.3 billion and take the cloud provider private. The firm pulled the […]

August 9, 2016

Google has acquired Orbitera, a startup that aims to make it easier for software vendors to sell cloud-based products to businesses. The startup gives software vendors a suite of tools for deploying and managing cloud applications and for billing businesses […]

August 8, 2016

Jeff Bezos is still the king of the cloud: Gartner’s latest magic quadrant for Cloud Infrastructure as a Service puts Amazon far and above the competition, with only Microsoft joining it in the “Leader” quadrant and every other vendor falling […]

July 29, 2016

Amazon reported another surge in revenue for its cloud business last quarter, though the growth is slowing as the division gets bigger. Amazon Web Services revenue for the second quarter was $2.87 billion, up 58 percent from the same period in […]

July 26, 2016

Research firm IDC is out with its latest estimates on who the leaders of the cloud systems management market are and some familiar names top the list: VMware, IBM and Microsoft. IDC defines cloud systems management as software tooling with […]

July 20, 2016

Microsoft’s cloud push continued to pay off last quarter, with revenue from its Azure services more than doubling from the same period last year, the company reported Tuesday. Overall revenue for the quarter was down, however, thanks partly to a steep […]

July 18, 2016

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has acquired cloud development startup Cloud9 on Thursday. The details of the transaction have not been disclosed. According to a report by Fortune, Cloud9 has built an integrated development environment. It offers a code editor with […]

July 18, 2016

The Google Stackdriver monitoring tool is speeding toward general availability, offering a glimpse of a future where consumers are encouraged to take to the cloud on their own, leveraging a growing array of self-service tools to perform all manner of […]

July 14, 2016

The Google Stackdriver monitoring tool is speeding toward general availability, offering a glimpse of a future where consumers are encouraged to take to the cloud on their own, leveraging a growing array of self-service tools to perform all manner of […]