Category: Private Cloud

May 21, 2019

Informatica, the enterprise cloud data management company, is bolstering its partnership with Google Cloud. The stronger partnership includes plans to pursue joint sales and go-to-market opportunities, as well as connectivity to all of the Google Cloud Platform (GCP)’s key data […]

May 21, 2019

Public cloud providers surprised a great deal of people when they came out with proprietary private clouds. (That’s where actual hardware and software support a subset of public cloud services.) I’m pretty sure they don’t like me to call them […]

May 20, 2019

There is one very significant, very often overlooked, difference between today’s cloud services market and yesterday’s PC software market: Software depended on a sales channel, comprised of independent organizations that ensured the availability of software packages through resellers. With the […]

May 20, 2019

Following Microsoft and Sony’s surprising announcement of a cloud gaming partnership last week, Bloomberg has a bit of behind-the-scenes analysis that uses unnamed insider sources to explain how the deal came about. Though Sony confirmed to Bloomberg that talks between […]

May 16, 2019

Germany is in the process of completely transforming its energy sector at a pace unmatched by other industrialized nations. Nuclear power is phasing out as renewables are gradually taking over, according to Deutsche Welle, Germany’s international broadcaster. The country’s politically […]

May 9, 2019

It has to be a bit depressing to be in the cloud infrastructure business if your name isn’t Amazon. Sure, there’s a huge, growing market, and the companies behind Amazon are growing even faster. Yet it seems no matter how […]

May 9, 2019

Google Cloud and SAP are teaming up under an effort called Embrace to offer joint customers more best practices and reference architectures to migrate workloads as well as extensions for C/4HANA. For Google Cloud, closer SAP ties may help it […]

May 1, 2019

Spending on cloud computing infrastructure continues to grow at a furious pace, but cloud vendors will have to work harder for their profits from now on. Global cloud infrastructure services market grew 42 percent year-on-year in the first quarter of […]

April 17, 2019

Thomas Kurian, the newly-minted CEO of Google Cloud, used the company’s Cloud Next conference last week to lay out his vision for the future of Google’s cloud computing platform. That vision involves, in part, a hiring spree to give businesses […]

April 16, 2019

Google on Tuesday announced GKE Advanced, a new service tier for Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE), its managed Kubernetes service. It includes advanced security features, enhanced usage reporting and support for serverless workloads via Cloud Run on GKE. Google introduced Cloud […]