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Google expands its cloud regions to Germany

Google expands its cloud regions to Germany

Three new availability zones to become live in coming months in Germany as well as Chile and Saudi Arabia. Google announced this week that they will be adding to their list of cloud regions over the coming months and years. The tech giant's global network of Google Cloud Platform (GCP) currently... Read more

date3 years ago
Dell Technologies: The cloud is a tool, not necessarily the solution

Dell Technologies: The cloud is a tool, not necessarily the solution

More and more companies are looking for ways to speed up innovation. To achieve innovation, the cloud is often regarded as the solution. Nevertheless, companies need to realise that the cloud is primarily a tool and not a complete solution. We discussed this with Patrick Eikenaar, Director of Data ... Read more

date3 years ago
Alibaba now in 4th place ahead of IBM in cloud infrastructure

Alibaba now in 4th place ahead of IBM in cloud infrastructure

Alibaba made its foray into the cloud infrastructure market in 2015, with ambitions to become one of the biggest. Now, the company announced that it had quarterly revenue of $2.194 billion. That number shows it has surpassed IBM, which had about $1.65 billion in revenue. $2 billion is a large fi... Read more

date3 years ago
IBM plans to spin off its legacy infrastructure unit

IBM plans to spin off its legacy infrastructure unit

IBM announced that it plans to spin off its $19 billion managed infrastructure services unit into a separate company by the end of next year. Arvind Krishna, the CEO, said that the spin-off would free up IBM so the parent company can focus on higher margins and higher growth in the hybrid cloud mar... Read more

date4 years ago
VMware is acquiring the automation provider company, SaltStack

VMware is acquiring the automation provider company, SaltStack

VMware is acquiring Saltstack, a renowned company in the infrastructure automation market. VMware is buying this company to enhance its vRealize cloud management software suite. The deal was announced during the VMware virtual VMworld event on Tuesday. The company debuted several new products bu... Read more

date4 years ago
Oracle announces new cloud security tools

Oracle announces new cloud security tools

Two new services will help customers to secure their Oracle Cloud environment. Oracle announced the general availability of two cloud security tools that are designed to help reduce the risk of data breaches caused by human error. The new services, Oracle Cloud Guard and Maximum Security Zone... Read more

date4 years ago
Progress Software plans to acquire the IaaS automation company Chef

Progress Software plans to acquire the IaaS automation company Chef

Infrastructure automation firm Chef has raised about $105 million in funding. Now it is going to be acquired by Progress Software for $220 million. Progress is based in Bedford, Massachusetts, and said that Chef would contribute to Progress efforts. Chef's usefulness will be in helping Progress ... Read more

date4 years ago

Public cloud revenue topped $233.4B in 2019

IDC has recently released a report claiming that the top five cloud service providers accounted for more than a third of the total global revenue. The global public cloud services market hit a total of $233.4 billion last year, a 26% increase year-over-year. The new report from IDC says that Ama... Read more

date4 years ago
Fortinet introduces Secure SD-WAN for Multi-Cloud

Fortinet introduces Secure SD-WAN for Multi-Cloud

Fortinet has unveiled a new SD-WAN (software-defined wide-area networking) solution for organizations with a multi-cloud strategy. The company said that the move is a way to ease the pressure on enterprises that lack expertise and IT specialists to establish secure and reliable connectivity betw... Read more

date4 years ago
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