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Cloud Competitors Nip at AWS’ Heels
Well-established cloud service providers remain enterprises' partners of choice, but challengers are nipping at their heels as more organizations turn to cloud for myriad infrastructure needs, a new report ...Full Article
Network Filers Take To The Clouds
Most disk storage arrays are based on commodity hardware these days. Generally speaking, they use Xeon processors from Intel as their controller brains, they use normal main memory as ...Full Article
Microsoft Fattens Up Azure Compute To Compete
Microsoft's entry this week into the converged cloud infrastructure market was accompanied by the roll out of a new series of virtual machines for the Azure cloud. In laying ...Full Article
Private Azure Clouds Come To Dell Hardware
Signaling its shift to a "converged infrastructure" model, Microsoft announced a series of moves this week designed to flesh out its Azure cloud offering, including a preconfigured cloud appliance ...Full Article
Verizon Cloud Interconnect Adds AWS
Verizon's Enterprise Solutions unit is expanding connections to its private IP cloud interconnect service to include Amazon Web Services. Verizon's Secure Cloud Interconnect (SCI) service currently works with Microsoft ...Full Article
Microsoft’s Own Five Year Move To The Azure Cloud
Just because you have built one of the world's largest clouds does not necessarily mean that you can easily move your own applications to it. Such is the case ...Full Article
Cascade of Service Outages Plague Azure Cloud
There has been no silver lining behind the Microsoft Azure cloud service during August, according to an outfit that tracks cloud outages and downtime. Meanwhile, Amazon Web Service performance ...Full Article
Azure Cloud Lifts Microsoft Revenues
Microsoft's otherwise lackluster quarterly earnings report, weighed down by the closing of its deal to buy the Nokia smartphone business, nevertheless showed sustained growth in its Azure cloud. Revenue ...Full Article
Nadella Pep Talk Stresses Microsoft ‘Ecosystem’
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella delivered a pep talk to the company's partner network this week in which he sought to flesh out the company's strategy for a "mobile-first, cloud-first ...Full Article
Rackspace Unveils ‘Managed Cloud’ Strategy
Cloud services provider Rackspace is unveiling a "managed cloud" strategy built around new service levels and a pricing model aimed at businesses looking for single- or multi-tenant servers, or ...Full Article