Datacenter Giant Acquires VMware vCloud
VMware is selling its cloud operations to a European cloud-hosting provider that is aggressively expanding its U.S. operations. French cloud provider OVH will acquire VMware's vCloud Air business in ...Full Article
EMC Storage Driving Dell Revenues
Dell Technologies, the computer hardware and storage giant, reported brisk fourth-quarter hardware sales fueled by its acquisition of storage leader EMC. For its full fiscal year, however, the company ...Full Article
IBM Jumps on Bandwagon for Cloud Databases
Responding to what it says is growing demand for deploying SQL databases in the cloud, IBM this week rolled out a transactional database as a service on its SoftLayer ...Full Article
IoT Deployments Fuel ‘Chaotic’ Cloud Security
Cloud security remains "complex and chaotic" and the Internet of Things threatens to increase cloud security risks, warns a survey of IT security managers conducted during last month's RSA ...Full Article
Oracle Cloud Plugs Into Smart Grid
In an ongoing effort to boost its share of the public cloud market, Oracle rolled out a cloud service geared toward the smart grid and Internet of Things device ...Full Article
‘API Economy’ Gathering Steam
Mashape, the API marketplace delivering management tools for micro-services and an emerging category dubbed "micro-functions" said this week it has closed an $18 million funding round amid heavy enterprise ...Full Article
IoT Security Adopts a Platform Approach
As is often the case, network security tools are just now beginning to keep catch up with vulnerable Internet of Things deployments, particularly leading edge industrial IoT infrastructure. With ...Full Article
Avere Systems Adds Google as Investor
Avere Systems, the hybrid cloud data storage and management vendor, announced its latest funding round this week that included new investor Google Inc. The $14 million Series E round ...Full Article
IBM Launches Container Service Around Watson
A new IBM cloud service targeting the development and deployment of cognitive applications will utilize the Docker container engine running on the Kubernetes container orchestrator. IBM's container service running ...Full Article
Industry Clouds: An At-Scale Grass Roots Movement Changing IT Life within Sectors
One of life’s hazards is becoming so immersed in our own way of doing business that a major disruptive force develops all around us – a threat to our ...Full Article