OVH plans to share its OpenStack automation for on-prem clouds
OVH will share the automation tools it developed to run its own OpenStack-based cloud as part of its strategy to grow its managed cloud business.
In Europe, the French company has offered to operate and manage a private cloud using its tech on customers' premises. OVH is planning to let others h...
Google invests $1.2 billion on cloud infrastructure in Germany
Google is investing $1.2 billion to expand its cloud infrastructure in Germany and is committed to using more renewable energy sources. Google is currently number three among the premier cloud providers in the world.
The CEO of Google Cloud, Thomas Kurian, is making it his mission to take the nu...
European regulators approve CISPE Code of Conduct
The European Data Protection Board (EDPB), under which all European Data Protection Authorities (DPAs) fall, gave a favourable resolution on Thursday that said the CISPE Data Protection Code of Conduct complies with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).
The CISPE Code was submitted by t...
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...