Hybrid Cloud
Shift to Cloud is Measured, IT Survey Finds
While more enterprises are moving workloads to the public cloud, a datacenter survey finds that the percentage of workloads residing in on-premise or co-location datacenters has remained stable since ...Full Article
AWS, Red Hat Partner on Containers
Red Hat and Amazon Web Services are extending their partnership to allow customers to deploy AWS services from within Red Hat's OpenShift container platform. The partners announced the new ...Full Article
Oracle Embraces Containers to Speed Cloud Apps
Oracle's databases and developer tools can now be pulled as images from a Docker container registry as the partners look to speed development of cloud-native database applications. Oracle becomes ...Full Article
VMware Buys Cloud Monitoring Startup
One week after selling its cloud operations to a European cloud-hosting provider, VMware Inc. said it is acquiring a cloud application monitoring service provider as IT micro-services move deeper ...Full Article
Elastifile’s ‘Cross-Cloud Fabric’: Flash-Native Distributed File System for Hybrid IT
The tidal movement toward hybrid on- and off-prem IT is well underway and well understood. But the data management challenges of multi-site implementations, with data and applications straddling multiple ...Full Article
AWS Lead Slips as Multi-Cloud Advances
New market intelligence emerges each week about the steady enterprise shift to the cloud as companies conclude they must upgrade their IT infrastructure to compete. A "cloud transformation" study ...Full Article
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
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
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