Cloud

TBM software company Apptio set for $1.9B acquisition

The deal with Vista Equity Partners includes a month-long "go-shop" period during which Apptio's board can solicit and evaluate alternative acquisition proposals.

By Alex Hickey • Nov. 12, 2018

Gap chooses Microsoft's cloud, as retailers avoid AWS

The retailer wants to use Azure for e-commerce operations, inventory and workforce systems.

By Samantha Ann Schwartz • Nov. 09, 2018

Johnson & Johnson completes cloud migration with a boost from early adoption and its CIO

Top-down investment paved the way for J&J to prioritize technology transformation, placing it ahead of the adoption curve for then-emerging technologies like hybrid cloud.

By Naomi Eide • Nov. 05, 2018

Red Hat acquisition is hybrid, open source power play for IBM, but it must tread carefully

Is a Red Hat acquisition enough to make IBM one of the "cool kids" of open source and the "Switzerland" of cloud?

By Alex Hickey • Oct. 30, 2018

IBM's $34B Red Hat acquisition takes over hybrid cloud market

Big Blue will remain committed to Red Hat's open source model, helping scale its technology to global enterprises.

By Alex Hickey • Oct. 29, 2018

Cloud infrastructure services up on the year, down on the quarter

Quarterly cloud infrastructure revenue surpassed $17 billion, including IaaS, PaaS and hosted private cloud services, according to Synergy Research Group. 

By Alex Hickey • Oct. 26, 2018

Gartner's 10 technology trends for 2019 and beyond

Intelligence and connectivity are becoming the norm. With that prevalence come threats of future tech capable of disrupting current models.

By Naomi Eide • Oct. 22, 2018

Silicon Valley's next dynamic duo: Edge computing and cloud

Edge computing needs the centralization and scale of cloud, and cloud needs the physical touchpoint of edge, according to Ed Anderson, VP and distinguished analyst at Gartner. 

By Alex Hickey • Oct. 18, 2018

Microsoft had to 'eat its own dog food' to modernize its portfolio

The company had to adopt at scale the technologies, software and services it sold its customers. 

By Naomi Eide • Oct. 18, 2018

How Ginni Rometty is positioning IBM to play a role in customers' future

There's a lot to be learned from a company in transition. After almost seven years at the helm of IBM, Rometty shared takeaways at the Gartner Symposium. 

By Alex Hickey • Oct. 17, 2018

6 charts take the confusion out of Kubernetes

Containers are an increasingly popular tool for businesses to provision workloads on the cloud and maximize resources. 

By Alex Hickey • Oct. 16, 2018

Report: AWS inks $1B in deals, expanding existing partnerships with Symantec, SAP

Amazon's biggest competitor in the cloud infrastructure and platforms market, Microsoft, reportedly vied for the Symantec deal as well, based off a memo reviewed by Bloomberg. 

By Alex Hickey • Oct. 11, 2018

Microsoft looks to rake in growing IT spend in the cloud

The company sees a lot of opportunity in highly regulated markets, where many organizations still haven't carried out significant cloud adoption.

By Alex Hickey • Oct. 09, 2018

Cloudera, Hortonworks merger creates Hadoop leader amid framework's decline

Some hold a less rosy view of the merger given the declining prevalence of the Hadoop framework, an open-source software for data storage, orchestration and computing. 

By Alex Hickey • Oct. 05, 2018

Opinion

Making high availability more cost-effective in the cloud

Provisioning resources for high availability in a way that does not sacrifice security or performance has never been easy or cheap. 

By David Bermingham

Alibaba boosting AI and quantum hardware, SAP cloud partnership

Alibaba has established a chip subsidiary to work on embedded and customized AI chips for the company's cloud and IoT businesses.

By Alex Hickey • Sept. 20, 2018

The Information: Google to take on Microsoft with cloud capabilities for on-prem servers

The prospect of a custom tool may be ideal for companies in regulated industries that are restricted from using off-premise cloud services.

By Samantha Ann Schwartz • Sept. 18, 2018

Opinion

Enterprise cultural shifts required for successful cloud adoption

Many organizations underestimate the legacy-to-cloud cultural shift and the specific IT skill sets required for managing cloud infrastructure environments.

By Joy Sim and Michael Byrne

Stripe, Slack maintain top spots in private cloud company rankings

A hundred private companies are on cloud nine after making the cut for Forbes annual Cloud 100 ranking, which featured 27 newcomers this year. 

By Alex Hickey • Sept. 14, 2018

Google quickly surpasses Microsoft in serverless computing, but can it beat AWS?

Just three months in, GCP's quick upward trajectory in serverless computing demonstrates that it could "have a shot at taking on Amazon." 

By Alex Hickey • Sept. 11, 2018

Cloud computing could be caught in crosshairs of US-China tariff battle

The third list of proposed tariffs by the Trump administration targets components of cloud computing hardware and data centers that would disrupt supply chains and hurt providers.

By Alex Hickey • UPDATED: Sept. 19, 2018 at 8 a.m.

The Information: Cloud prospects for Alibaba scaling back in US

Instead of looking to pull customers from Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud Platform, Alibaba will focus on multinational companies in the U.S. with cloud services needs in China.

By Alex Hickey • Sept. 04, 2018

DevOps and agile: Why this union is taking so long to consummate

Organizations are having difficulty finding candidates familiar with agile and DevOps who can collaborate across teams.

By Samantha Ann Schwartz • Aug. 30, 2018

As hyperscale capex hits records, a few operators solidify hold on market

Hyperscale capabilities have become critical to leading cloud infrastructure, software and platform providers.

By Alex Hickey • Aug. 29, 2018

VMware pushes further into multicloud with CloudHealth Technologies buy

The company has developed tools to build cloud infrastructure and recent activity demonstrates a strong focus on hybrid cloud environments.

By Alex Hickey • Aug. 28, 2018