SAP sees cloud sales increase 45 percent in first quarter
SAP saw its cloud division grow significantly during the first fiscal quarter of 2019. Nevertheless, the company had an operating loss of 136 million euros. This loss is due to a restructuring and the acquisition of Qualtrics for 8 billion dollars.
Total sales for the first three months of 2019 amo... Read more
Microsoft was worth a trillion dollars for a moment thanks to the cloud
Microsoft was yesterday, for a moment, the third company ever to see its market capitalization exceed trillion dollars. The company's value increased after it announced its third fiscal quarter figures, and exceeded those expectations.
The company reported a profit for certain costs as share compe... Read more
Equinix expands ECX Fabric network with more metropolises
Equinix has announced that it has expanded its platform and Cloud Exchange with more metropolises with a software-defined approach. The platform, the Equinix Cloud Exchange (ECX) Fabric, is designed to strengthen connectivity between its 37 global markets. These include Amsterdam, Los Angeles and Ho... Read more
“IT managers are seeing their businesses turn into platform providers.
Two-thirds of the organizations want to be not only a company that makes products, but also offers platforms. This is shown by a survey of 350 IT managers conducted by Cloud Elements. 62 percent of organizations want to become a platform provider to integrate with partners, retain customers or find ... Read more
OpenStack Stein launched with improved support for Kubernetes
The OpenStack project has launched the nineteenth version of its software. This version comes with some new features, as well as updates and improvements, writes TechCrunch. There is now improved support for Kubernetes.
The Open Source project OpenStack controls more than 75 public and thousands of ... Read more
SAP enhances SAP HANA with Intel modules and machine learning features
SAP has made several improvements to its SAP HANA database, both in the cloud and on-premise. With the improvements, companies need to become more intelligent, more agile and more efficient. These include new machine learning capabilities and improved cloud support.
SAP HANA is an in-memory databas... Read more
Google Cloud SQL also compatible with Microsoft SQL Server 2017
Google has just announced during Google Cloud Next that the Cloud SQL product will be compatible with Microsoft SQL Server 2017 in addition to MySQL and PostgreSQL. This allows companies to migrate their business Windows workloads to Cloud SQL as well. This eliminates the need for companies to manag... Read more
Google Cloud Run brings serverless and containers together
During Google Cloud Next, Google announced a new product that brings together serverless and containerization. It's about Google Cloud Run. It also announced Cloud Run for GKE, which is specifically designed to run on Google's version of kubernetes.
The products are the result of discussions with cu... Read more
Accenture wants to take over the French cloud consultancy firm Cirruseo
Accenture plans to acquire Cirruseo, a French cloud consulting firm specializing in Google Cloud Intelligence services. Details of the acquisition have not been disclosed.
Cirruseo's strength and deep expertise in Google's cloud-based Artificial Intelligence (AI) solutions should help Accenture expa... Read more
Vulnerable cloud servers victim of attacks within a minute
A study of intentionally compromised cloud servers shows that hackers take less than a minute to launch their attacks, and that they continue to do so at a rapid pace from the moment they discover the vulnerable server.
Security company Sophos placed several Honeypot servers in AWS data centres in I... Read more