Tag: service models

June 17, 2016

Enterprises interested in tapping container technology now have a brand-new option for managing it: ContainerX, a multitenant, container-as-a-service platform for both Linux and Windows. Launched into beta last November by a team of engineers from Microsoft, VMware and Citrix, the […]

June 14, 2016

The cloud wars rage on. The room is full of 800lb gorillas that have been battling over market share and supremacy for several years now. You know who the key players are – Amazon, Microsoft, Google and IBM – all […]

June 13, 2016

Cloud deployments and cloud-enabled systems now account for well over half of the $29-billion-per-quarter data center infrastructure market, according to Synergy Research Group. Synergy released Q1 2016 data on the cloud-building technology market this week, showing that Microsoft continues to […]

June 10, 2016

Cloud security vendor Netskope released its latest report Thursday assessing Software-as-a-Service usage for the first quarter of 2016, revealing a surge in the amount of malware discovered lacing the cloud-based applications sanctioned by enterprise IT departments. The Netskope Cloud Report […]

June 2, 2016

If you aren’t familiar with specialized payments company FleetCor, here are the details: it powers about 1.9 billion financial transactions per year and expects to exceed $1.7 billion in sales in fiscal 2016. The company has just announced that it […]

May 18, 2016

SAP and Microsoft have expanded an existing partnership to offer new products to users of the Azure and Office 365 cloud services, focused on better integrating the two companies’ offerings. Azure customers will be able to use SAP HANA in […]

May 4, 2016

Oracle announced on Monday that it will acquire Opower, an Arlington, Texas-based company that provides SaaS solutions to the utility industry. Oracle will pay approximately $532 million for the company, or roughly $10.30 per share in cash, according to a […]

May 3, 2016

While SaaS accounts for only 8 percent of all software sales, it’s a market that grew by almost 40 percent in 2015, and should more than triple within five years, according to a forecast from Synergy Research Group. The analyst […]

May 2, 2016

Power, speed and flexibility: Characteristics that are quintessentially “cloud.” Before virtualized public cloud computing became the IT game changer it is today, SoftLayer set out to build integration and automation into the established (yet boring) world of dedicated server hosting. […]

April 20, 2016

IBM is enjoying major revenue growth in its cloud computing business and expects it to continue thanks to partnerships with companies like VMware, new SaaS investment and cloud-based data analytics solutions from Watson. That’s according to the company’s first-quarter 2016 […]

April 20, 2016

Microsoft has announced the general availability of its Azure Container Service on Tuesday to help organizations deploy and operate containerized application workloads. According to a blog post by Ross Gardler, Azure senior program manager, Azure Container Service provides simplified configurations […]

April 19, 2016

Microsoft SharePoint Enterprise became available for the first time as a preconfigured offering that could be self-provisioned in the cloud. Only it wasn’t Microsoft’s cloud. The Amazon Web Services Marketplace is now the only source from which businesses can quickly […]

April 15, 2016

Infrastructure as a service provider DigitalOcean announced on Thursday that it has secured a $130 million credit facility to purchase equipment that will support its global expansion. DigitalOcean has seen rapid growth over the past two years: its registered customer […]

April 15, 2016

Pittsburgh-based startup ContainerShip has raised a $2.41 seed round on Thursday led by Draper Triangle Ventures and Birchmere Ventures. ContainerShip is a platform as a service that can be run in a user’s data center or cloud, and supports deployment […]

April 6, 2016

We’ve all been lured into sexy “try before you buy” freemium models that provide just the right amount of functionality to get you started. Yet, it’s not quite enough to complete the job. “Getting the job done” often requires stepping […]

April 1, 2016

The past two weeks have been a bonanza of cloud conferences and they provide useful insight into the ongoing IaaS cloud wars between Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud Platform. Last week Google attempted to attract developers to […]

March 29, 2016

The digital business era is reshaping the way enterprise businesses operate, making them more dependent on cloud-based “as-a-service” technologies to make it possible. Gartner projected that spending on enterprise application software grew by 7.5 percent last year and will reach […]

March 14, 2016

Businesses are actively investing in cloud-based platforms as part of their infrastructure strategy to provide superb service to their clients, especially among small- and medium-sized businesses. As a result we have been seeing an increase in demand for IT professionals […]

March 11, 2016

IaaS cloud services is here to rescue. Well, possibly. Established and new cloud offerings promise to increase productivity, reduce hardware and software costs, and provide scalability. Of course, these services come at a cost both in money spent on services […]

March 8, 2016

With cloud services becoming more widespread and complex, cost management and billing require greater consideration and better facilitation, and just as one-size-fits-all cloud solutions are no longer practical, so too must pricing structures evolve and be tailored to individual clients. […]