Category: Global Cloud

January 23, 2020

At first, there was “moving to the cloud,” then there were private and public clouds, which progressed into hybrid clouds. The domains of cloud computing have been evolving rapidly, galloping forward to meet the business needs of an industry that […]

January 22, 2020

Microsoft is planning to open its first cloud region in Israel next year, company officials said on January 22. That brings Microsoft’s total of announced cloud regions to 56 across 21 countries. Microsoft plans to make Azure available in the […]

January 22, 2020

Canonical is best known for Ubuntu Linux, followed by Ubuntu’s dominance on the cloud as the virtual machine (VM) operating system of choice. Now, Canonical is taking a new angle. It’s building an Android app platform on top of an […]

January 20, 2020

Enterprises looking for a way to modernize legacy AS/400 workloads now have a new option: Move them onto Google Cloud Platform. Google won’t host your old AS/400 for you, but it is renting time on IBM Power Systems servers, the […]

January 17, 2020

Cloud gaming could be the future and the Google Stadia platform might just be where we see that future play out – BT certainly thinks so, as it just teamed up with Google to bring the button bashing service to […]

January 16, 2020

Cybersecurity is an important aspect and it becomes more precarious when organisations are flocking to the cloud to deploy mission-critical apps. Data is the new oil of the 21st century. The opportunity that the cloud presents also brings in challenges […]

January 16, 2020

Google has launched Cloud Premium Support in a bid to improve cloud services for enterprise clients. On Wednesday, Atul Nanda Vice President of Cloud Support at Google said that Premium Support will better serve “the enterprise and mission-critical needs of […]

January 15, 2020

One of the most exciting recent developments in the cloud software business is the proliferation of partner ecosystems, with large public and late-stage private cloud companies creating their own marketplaces to offer ready-to-install, pre-integrated partner solutions. Salesforce, of course, started […]

January 14, 2020

MariaDB Corporation, the commercial entity behind the MariaDB open source relational database that began life as a “fork” of MySQL, is today announcing a new version of its platform. The release, dubbed Platform X4, brings new a storage paradigm to […]

January 14, 2020

Equinix announced today that is acquiring bare metal cloud provider Packet. The New York City startup that had raised over $36 million on a $100 million valuation, according to Pitchbook data. Equinix has a set of data centers and co-locations […]