Intel, Rackspace Target OpenStack Development
Chipmaker Intel and OpenStack leader Rackspace are joining forces to promote enterprise applications and cloud scaling within OpenStack source code. As part of a new cloud initiative announced by ...Full Article
Resiliency Through the Cloud: Limiting Reputational Risk
The threat of business disruption is forever present, as is the harm these outages can do to a business and its reputation. In fact, according to the 2015 Cost ...Full Article
IBM Launches Open Cloud Development Platform
It's open season for open source development, the latest example being a cloud-based platform launched this week by IBM along with the release of 50 projects designed to speed ...Full Article
Transparency Leads to Cloud ROI
Having demonstrated cloud's flexibility and agility, IT departments now are tasked with reining in costs and centralizing control over often dispersed deployments of cloud across their organizations. After all, ...Full Article
Google-Led Effort Targets Container Orchestration
The Linux Foundation said this week it is launching a new container orchestration initiative aimed at advancing the development of native cloud applications and services. The consortium of companies ...Full Article
IBM Moves Pipeline Operation to the Cloud
IBM will supply cloud and other IT services to a new gas pipeline company spun off earlier this month from a large energy infrastructure supplier. IBM said Thursday (July ...Full Article
IBM Brings HPC GPU to Cloud
Through its newly announced ability to offer Nvidia Tesla K80 dual-graphics processing unit (GPU) accelerators on bare metal cloud servers, IBM Cloud's SoftLayer infrastructure now enables organizations to use ...Full Article
Conservative Bank Treads Softly Into Cloud
As head of infrastructure at DZ BANK, Dr. Jan Vitt is cautiously leading the conservative German financial institution's investment into cloud. Germany, after all, has some of the most stringent privacy ...Full Article
Escrow Averts Service Provider Disaster
As more organizations rely on cloud service providers, they must consider how to handle unexpected outages that could impact day-to-day operations or the long-term capacity to access data or ...Full Article
Cloud Providers Must Spill Clients’ Secrets
Whether cloud falls under the bailiwick of IT or a business operation, gaining insight into data about usage, security, and other key metrics is an important – but sometimes ...Full Article
