Mirantis Container Cloud offers Kubernetes on different clouds
Mirantis, the open cloud company, announced Mirantis Container Cloud with hundreds of updates. It includes support for the IaaS solution VMware, which helps businesses build and operate container and virtual machines (VMs) clouds, wherever they want, with consistency.
Adam Parco, the VP of engin...
IBM Power Virtual servers now offer Red Hat’s OpenShift
On Tuesday, IBM unveiled a new series of Power Systems capabilities and open-source-based tools. The goal is to help companies deploy and manage hybrid cloud infrastructures. That is not all the company is releasing, though.
IBM also announced the availability of Red Hat’s OpenShift, on Big Bl...
Dell brings infrastructure-as-a-service to on-premises private clouds
Dell announced on Tuesday that it will offer a new private cloud for enterprises, named Dell Technologies Cloud Platform Private Cloud. The company said that it wiell give users more flexibility and better cloud economics.
The offering is part of Dell’s Cloud Console, which is the foundation o...
Google’s new subsea cable between the US and Europe is now live
Today, in partnership with SubCom, Google announced that its privately owned Dunant subsea cable between Virginia Beach, Virginia and Saint-Hilaire-de-Riez on the French Atlantic Coast is now operational.
The project was first announced in the middle of 2018 and was nam...
Amazon’s AWS opens its first office in Greece
Amazon’s cloud computing division, AWS, has opened its first office in Greece. The official opening happened on Friday and aims to support AWS's goal; to grow the number of companies and public sector agencies that use its cloud services.
In Greece, Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotaki is ramping...
Deutsche Telekom starts European cloud service with Nextcloud
Deutsche Telekom and Nextcloud have announced a partnership to start their own cloud service. The service is to be a European counterpart to the American tech giants and fully comply with GDPR guidelines.
The two companies have announced their cooperation in a press release. All servers of the c...
IBM will pay $24.25 million to resolve FCC investigations
IBM agreed to pay $24.25 million to resolve two investigations by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), concerning subsidies awarded to bring broadband to schools and libraries. The payment will resolve the two FCC investigations that have taken about 15 years to reach this point.
The FCC...
IBM to acquire Nordcloud before end of 2021’s first quarter
IBM announced that is it acquiring Nordcloud, a Finnish service provider that helps organizations and enterprises with cloud projects. The financial terms are still under wraps. However, if everything works out well, the transaction could be done by the first quarter of 2021.
Nordcloud was found...
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...
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 ...
Google’s open-source cloud advocates for openness and transparency
Google is proposing an 'open cloud' approach for businesses that want to move quickly between public clouds, using the infrastructure they want, when they want and with no fear that they may be forced to choose one vendor or have trouble accessing data, just because it is in different clouds.
Th...
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...