Transparency Leads to Cloud ROI
Having demonstrated cloud's flexibility and agility, IT departments now are tasked with reining in costs and centralizing control over often dispersed deployments of cloud across their organizations. After all, ...Full Article
Google-Led Effort Targets Container Orchestration
The Linux Foundation said this week it is launching a new container orchestration initiative aimed at advancing the development of native cloud applications and services. The consortium of companies ...Full Article
IBM Moves Pipeline Operation to the Cloud
IBM will supply cloud and other IT services to a new gas pipeline company spun off earlier this month from a large energy infrastructure supplier. IBM said Thursday (July ...Full Article
IBM Brings HPC GPU to Cloud
Through its newly announced ability to offer Nvidia Tesla K80 dual-graphics processing unit (GPU) accelerators on bare metal cloud servers, IBM Cloud's SoftLayer infrastructure now enables organizations to use ...Full Article
Conservative Bank Treads Softly Into Cloud
As head of infrastructure at DZ BANK, Dr. Jan Vitt is cautiously leading the conservative German financial institution's investment into cloud. Germany, after all, has some of the most stringent privacy ...Full Article
Escrow Averts Service Provider Disaster
As more organizations rely on cloud service providers, they must consider how to handle unexpected outages that could impact day-to-day operations or the long-term capacity to access data or ...Full Article
Cloud Providers Must Spill Clients’ Secrets
Whether cloud falls under the bailiwick of IT or a business operation, gaining insight into data about usage, security, and other key metrics is an important – but sometimes ...Full Article
IBM Cloud Gets a Boost with Box Deal
IBM's partnership this week with Box, the enterprise collaboration software vendor, extends the reach of IBM's cloud services such as Bluemix along with its Watson artificial-intelligence technology to another ...Full Article
Red Hat Looks Beyond Enterprise With Samsung Deal
Amid a big week for the open source community, Red Hat announced a batch of new partnerships during its annual company event this week, including an alliance with consumer ...Full Article
Infinera Adds Security, Automation to Cloud Xpress
Infinera today expanded its Cloud Xpress family, adding new automation features and security capabilities to its portfolio of metro cloud platforms. Like its earlier 10- and 40-gigabit Ethernet models, ...Full Article