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AWS reigns while cloud market continues strong growth going into 2017
Google, Microsoft and Amazon Web Services recently released new earnings reports. What do they say about the state of cloud?
By Justine Brown • Feb. 6, 2017 -
Snap Inc. commits to spending $2B on Google Cloud
The company behind Snapchat has agreed to use Google Cloud as its hosting provider for the next five years.
By Justine Brown • Feb. 6, 2017 -
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IT decision makers turn to hybrid cloud in search of security, flexibility and scale within enterprise infrastructure.
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Judge says Google must comply with email search warrant
Microsoft may be off the hook, but Google must turn over customer emails.
By Justine Brown • Feb. 6, 2017 -
Cloud, AI and IoT companies the leading M&A targets in 2017
PwC says more than 1,600 technology deals were announced in 2016, and 2017 is on track to be another big year.
By Justine Brown • Feb. 1, 2017 -
Dropbox's revenue on track to exceed $1B in 2017, CEO says
The numbers could help the company ahead of its rumored IPO planned for later this year.
By Justine Brown • Jan. 31, 2017 -
Google plans to focus M&A activity on AI this year
The company wants to focus on game changing technology in areas such as cloud, enterprise and artificial intelligence.
By Justine Brown • Jan. 31, 2017 -
Oracle shifts cloud leadership in push for market expansion
Don Johnson, who joined Oracle in 2014, is now leading Oracle’s public cloud services.
By Justine Brown • Jan. 27, 2017 -
Court upholds Microsoft victory in overseas email lawsuit
The 2nd U.S. Court of Appeals in Manhattan ruled that the DOJ can't force Microsoft to turn over customer emails stored outside the U.S.
By Justine Brown • Jan. 25, 2017 -
Is the cloud subject to sales tax? Depends on the state
Several states are grappling with how to tax cloud services and infrastructure.
By Justine Brown • Jan. 24, 2017 -
Microsoft may clip UK data center development because of Brexit
A company exec says if tariffs become too high, Microsoft could pull the plug on its data center expansion in Britain.
By Justine Brown • Jan. 24, 2017 -
IBM lands lucrative US Army cloud deal
The five-year contract to run the army's private cloud is worth approximately $62 million.
By Justine Brown • Jan. 19, 2017 -
Vying to compete with cloud big dogs, Oracle expands data center reach
Oracle has doubled the regional presence of its cloud platform over the last two years.
By Justine Brown • Jan. 18, 2017 -
Containers will be a $2.7B market by 2020, research firm says
Container tech can make it easier for organizations to build and deploy applications, and because of that, 451 predicts containers will be the fastest growing of all the cloud-enabling technologies.
By Justine Brown • Jan. 13, 2017 -
In the cloud, services top hardware, software for the first time
Operator and vendor revenues across six key cloud services and infrastructure market segments reached $148 billion in 2016.
By Justine Brown • Jan. 5, 2017 -
AWS reports spike in demand for its database migration service
Demand for DMS is growing, but AWS must keep innovating to keep ahead of its rivals.
By Justine Brown • Jan. 3, 2017 -
Survey: 80% of companies derive revenue from the cloud
Digital transformation is in full swing across sectors and companies want to quickly move to and profit from the cloud.
By Justine Brown • Jan. 3, 2017 -
Air Force to migrate its 550K users to Office 365
The move, which will start in January, is one of many recent Air Force efforts to migrate its legacy IT to the cloud.
By Justine Brown • Dec. 21, 2016 -
How Rackspace is surviving the ultra-competitive cloud market
The company is focusing on helping enterprises manage their next-generation IT needs.
By Justine Brown • Dec. 21, 2016 -
Deep Dive
7 cloud technology predictions for 2017
Total cloud infrastructure equipment revenues are poised to reach $70 billion in 2016 and continue to grow at a double-digit pace, according to Synergy Research Group.
By Justine Brown • Dec. 21, 2016 -
After losing big backers, what's next for OpenStack?
Cisco and HPE may have ditched the platform, but Red Hat and Wal-Mart are still believers.
By Justine Brown • Dec. 19, 2016 -
HPE, Cisco maintain cloud infrastructure market lead, but Dell is in pursuit
With the Dell/EMC deal now complete, HPE's dominance in cloud infrastructure may be coming to an end.
By Justine Brown • Dec. 19, 2016 -
Cisco pulling the plug on its OpenStack-based public cloud
The company said it will move Intercloud workloads to other infrastructure.
By Justine Brown • Dec. 15, 2016 -
How Microsoft reinvented itself for the cloud era
When other areas of its business-software empire started drying up around 2006, Microsoft bet big on cloud.
By Justine Brown • Dec. 13, 2016 -
Rise of cloud may mean bad news for Cisco, other network vendors
Traditional network and data center technology makers could take a dive next year as cloud continues to snowball.
By Justine Brown • Dec. 8, 2016 -
Opinion
Public, private, hybrid: How to optimize ROI for the tiered business cloud
While the cloud offers solutions to many IT issues, technical and business fundamentals dictate that most companies exist in a hybrid environment of on-prem machines.
By Rajesh Ram • Dec. 8, 2016