Koch Industries completes Infor acquisition for 13 billion dollars
Koch Industries acquires the maker of Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) software Infor for an amount of approximately thirteen billion dollars. The acquisition was announced at the beginning of this year, this week the deal was actually completed.
Infor is one of the big names in providing clou...
Public cloud firms invest most in data center hardware and software
Research by Synergy Research Group's market specialists shows that data center hardware and software are still very much in demand. Most of these investments come from public cloud parties. Investments in data center hardware and software for on-premise data centers are declining.
Suppliers of d...
MariaDB brings open-source data management system to the cloud
MariaDB, a provider of open source data management solutions, has now brought its on-premise product to the cloud. With SkySQL, companies say they get a powerful DataBase-as-Service (DBaaS) solution that meets the highest demands.
With the move to the cloud, the open source data management solut...
Use of cloud services increased by over 700 percent
The coronavirus outbreak and the subsequent measure of working from home on a massive scale has led to the necessary increase in the use of cloud services. Microsoft observed a 775 percent increase in the use of its services in regions where working from home is now the rule.
The increase is mai...
Azure prioritises crucial sectors in case of capacity problems
Microsoft will prioritise healthcare and necessary government services (such as the fire department) when cloud service Azure encounters capacity problems. These professional groups are also seen as crucial during the coronavrius outbreak.
In a blog post, Microsoft discusses problems it may enco...
Oracle reports growth, mainly through cloud subscriptions
Oracle announced that it had the best quarterly results in nearly two years. The announcement resulted in a 3 percent increase in the value of Oracle shares.
Revenues increased by nearly 2 percent, to about 9.79 billion dollars, compared to a year ago. Profits fell slightly, to 2.57 billion doll...
IT spendings likely much lower due to corona virus COVID-19
The corona virus outbreak is now officially a pandemic, and companies are obviously noticing the consequences. According to research bureau IDC, the financial consequences will specifically be noticeable in IT.
IDC initially expected a 4% growth in IT spending in 2020, but due to the effects of ...
Pentagon expressing doubts about JEDI-contract with Microsoft
The U.S. Department of Defense wants to reconsider a 10 billion dollar (9 billion euro) cloud contract (the JEDI-contract) that it awarded to Microsoft. It has requested permission to do so from the court.
A month ago, an American court approved a request from competitor AWS, which temporarily p...
VMware enters a new era with VMware Cloud Foundation 4
VMware was one of the first IT companies to turn its physical event into a virtual event. Initially, the company wanted to present its future grandly in San Francisco, but the corona virus reshaped the presentation of VMware Cloud Foundation 4. The suite includes vSphere 7 with support for Kubernet...
How financial services firms can profit from the hybrid (multi)cloud
According to Nutanix, more and more financial services companies are turning to modern cloud architectures and technologies to create the foundation for their digital enterprise infrastructure. In a whitepaper, Nutanix researched the trends and strategies for financial services companies to be succ...
Red Hat updates Ceph Storage platform for cloud-native workloads
Red Hat has made Ceph Storage 4 generally available. The new release makes the platform for object, block and file storage suitable for cloud-native application development.
Ceph Storage can run on the most commonly used hardware. It uses an algorithm called Controlled Replication Under Scalable...
HPE Container Platform generally available
Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) has announced general availability for the HPE Container Platform. The platform combines a number of technologies developed by BlueData Software and MapR Technologies, two companies recently acquired by HPE.
The company describes the container platform as an "int...