Cloud investments amount to $63 billion in Q1
Organizations have spent $63.7 billion on cloud infrastructure services during the first quarter worldwide. This is the headline finding from a new report from Synergy Research Group. The report covers three product categories: infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS), platform-as-a-service (PaaS), and h... Read more
DigitalOcean acquires Cloudways for $350 million
DigitalOcean announced the $350 million acquisition of Cloudways, a cloud hosting platform.
DigitalOcean offers a platform that aims to simplify cloud computing and allow developers to dedicate more time to developing software rather than being concerned with infrastructural issues. It’s commi... Read more
Dell Technologies wants to relieve IT-departments with APEX, but will it succeed?
Dell Technologies is undergoing an enormous transformation. Where it previously mainly sold hardware to fill up your data centre or office, it now wants to relieve organizations by taking a large part of the IT management out of their hands. Dell Technologies offers the APEX portfolio for this purp... Read more
Supply chain crunch affects mast rollout for Vodafone in Europe
The global supply chain crunch has affected almost every industry, including smartphones. Now, it affects the antennas that propagate the signals those phones need.
Vantage Towers AG, a unit spun out of Vodafone Group, makes mobile masts and has said its plans to build new towers are facing issu... Read more
Microsoft becomes Platinum member of Open Infrastructure Foundation
OpenStack, the open-source, IaaS (infrastructure-as-a-service) cloud company related to projects like Airship (open-source tools for cloud provisioning) and Zuul (the Ansible-based Continous Integration (CI) system), has for years been stuck between what Gartner calls the Trough of Disillusionment ... Read more
DigitialOcean acquires Nimbella for its serverless capabilities
Cloud infrastructure company DigitalOcean has acquired Nimbella, a startup that has only been in operation for three years, for an undisclosed sum. Nimbella set out to make multi-cloud serverless software development easier.
DigitalOcean is best known for offering an IaaS (infrastructure-as-a-se... Read more
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... Read more
90% of enterprises plan to have fully autonomous data centers
Enterprise data centers were manned and manually operated by personnel, who had to be there for potential maintenance tasks. However, advancements in AI are changing things, according to an IDC report backed by Huawei.
The report talks about a new kind of datacenter where the automation levels a... Read more
Chip shortage is causing manufacturing delays
Companies dealing in cars, electronics, smartphones, TVs and any other technology that need chips, are dealing with a global shortage. The companies have expressed concern, as manufacturing delays start to appear, in the wake of rising consumer demand.
The shortage is attributed to several cause... Read more
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... Read more