Cloud Vendors Address EU Safe Harbor Ruling
Cloud vendors are responding to last month's data privacy ruling by a European court with security upgrades to cloud storage and orchestration services aimed at helping customers meet stricter ...Full Article
Verizon Survey: Hybrid Cloud Now ‘Mainstream’
Verizon's annual report on enterprise cloud adoption argues that a shift is underway from embracing the cloud for mission-critical workloads to a more aggressive use of cloud platforms to ...Full Article
Survey: Enterprises Lack Visibility Into Public Clouds
Public cloud adoption continues to surge, but not all adopters are seeing an immediate return on the investment, an industry survey concludes. In a survey of more than 1,600 ...Full Article
IBM Expands Hybrid Cloud Strategy With Gravitant Deal
IBM expanded its cloud and enterprise services offerings this week with the latest in a series of acquisitions designed to propel its hybrid cloud strategy. IBM (NYSE: IBM) said ...Full Article
IBM Bluemix Adds Apache Kafka Messaging
Cloud vendors continue to add a range of open-source development tools to their platforms. The latest example comes from IBM, which has steadily been building up the toolbox on ...Full Article
Rackspace Jumps on Container Bandwagon with Carina
Rackspace used this week's OpenStack Summit in Tokyo to jump on the application container bandwagon with a native container environment. Rackspace (NYSE: RAX) said its Carina container environment combines ...Full Article
Filling Storage Gap Could Boost OpenStack Deployments
As OpenStack cloud deployments slowly grow, so too do nagging concerns about complexity and the persistent difficulty of installing the open source platform, including much configuring and customizing. As ...Full Article
Survey: Database Shift to Cloud Fuels Competition
As relational and analytic databases move from the datacenter to the cloud, a new survey finds most enterprises are sticking with incumbents as they adopt database-as-a-service (DBaaS) offerings. In ...Full Article
Oracle Cloud Adds Data Visualization
The database giant adds to its growing big data stack with a cloud-based data visualization service.Full Article
EMC, VMware Raise Eyebrows With Cloud Spinoff
The proposed $67 billion merger of Dell Inc., storage giant EMC Corp. and its VMware Inc. subsidiary got more complicated this week when the future Dell units unexpectedly announced ...Full Article
