Hyperscalers Emerging From ‘Hype Phase’
The number of companies fitting the description of "hyperscale" now accounts for 68 percent of the cloud infrastructure services market, a researcher found. Synergy Research Group said this week ...Full Article
DDN Claims Faster Object Storage ‘Cross-Region’ S3 Connectivity than AWS
Advanced-scale storage specialist DataDirect Networks (DDN), whose solutions populate the upper-rung of the Top500 supercomputing list, today announced new “cross-region” features to its WOS object storage platform that support ...Full Article
Cloud Shift, Strong Dollar Slow IT Revenues
Global IT spending faces "headwinds" that include a rising U.S. dollar and a continuing slowdown in the server market as potential customers flock to the cloud. All this is ...Full Article
New Malware ‘Bricks’ IoT Devices
Despite repeated assurances that Internet of Things security issues are being addressed, so-called "in-the-wild" attacks on poorly secured devices reveal that securing the IoT still has a long way ...Full Article
AWS Lead Slips as Multi-Cloud Advances
New market intelligence emerges each week about the steady enterprise shift to the cloud as companies conclude they must upgrade their IT infrastructure to compete. A "cloud transformation" study ...Full Article
Datacenter Giant Acquires VMware vCloud
VMware is selling its cloud operations to a European cloud-hosting provider that is aggressively expanding its U.S. operations. French cloud provider OVH will acquire VMware's vCloud Air business in ...Full Article
EMC Storage Driving Dell Revenues
Dell Technologies, the computer hardware and storage giant, reported brisk fourth-quarter hardware sales fueled by its acquisition of storage leader EMC. For its full fiscal year, however, the company ...Full Article
IoT Deployments Fuel ‘Chaotic’ Cloud Security
Cloud security remains "complex and chaotic" and the Internet of Things threatens to increase cloud security risks, warns a survey of IT security managers conducted during last month's RSA ...Full Article
Oracle Cloud Plugs Into Smart Grid
In an ongoing effort to boost its share of the public cloud market, Oracle rolled out a cloud service geared toward the smart grid and Internet of Things device ...Full Article
