A simpler and more manageable OpenStack
Jonathan Bryce, Executive Director, OpenStack Foundation The latest OpenStack Summit is underway in Boston, MA. It comes a few weeks after the OpenStack Foundation released its latest User Survey....
View ArticleMTM Tech launches AnywhereApp
Marcus Holloway, CEO, MTM At Citrix Synergy, MTM Technologies has launched AnywhereApp. It is a cloud-based workspace solution aimed at mid-market and small enterprises. Workspaces can be deployed on...
View ArticleSebastian Krause talks about hybrid cloud at IBM
Sebastian Krause, General Manager, IBM Cloud Europe At IBM InterConnect in Las Vegas, Enterprise TImes had an opportunity to catch up with Sebastian Krause, General Manager, IBM Cloud Europe. Over the...
View ArticleRackspace reacts to EU data protection rules
Alex Fuerst, Vice President of DACH at Rackspace Rackspace has announced its first data centre in Frankfurt, Germany. The data centre is in response to new data protection requirements from the EU and...
View ArticleOVH launches new private cloud for US
OVH has announced its next-generation private cloud for US customers. It is built on top of the vCloud Air acquisition that the company completed earlier this year. The company describes this as an...
View ArticleInspur launches InCloud OpenStack v5.5
Chinese technology giant, Inspur, has announced the release of Inspur InCloud OpenStack v5.5. This latest version of InCloud OS is based on OpenStack Ocata which was formally launched in February 2017....
View ArticleCloud usage increasing as multicloud gains traction
Enterprise IT departments are struggling to deal with a range of options for their enterprise computing platforms. They are faced with a wide set of choices but not all are under their control. The key...
View ArticleOVHcloud adds VMware Cloud Foundation
Global cloud provider OVH has announced VMware Cloud Foundation on OVHcloud. It is a natural extension of the relationship between OVHcloud and VMware. It is only available to customers using the...
View ArticleAs the financial sector embraces cloud technologies what are the critical...
Financial institutions that are agile and quick in how they respond to fast-changing customer expectations will ultimately beat their competitors. Last month the EBA – European Banking Authority...
View ArticleOpenStack becomes Open Infrastructure
The OpenStack Foundation is holding its European OpenStack Summit in Berlin this week. It started with a surprise announcement from Jonathan Bryce, Executive Director, OpenStack Foundation. As of now,...
View ArticleAlain Fiocco talks about the new solutions OVH is offering
Alain Fiocco is the CTO of OVH, the French cloud provider with plans to be a €1 billion company in the next few years. Those plans were outlined in an earlier podcast with Octave Klaba, Chairman,...
View ArticleSecurity in a Multi-cloud Environment
As companies leverage a multi-cloud strategy to improve IT operations and provide better services to their customers, they can’t afford to overlook the implications for security. It is especially true...
View ArticleMicrosoft and Finastra to accelerate digital transformation of financial...
Microsoft and Finastra have announced a multiyear deal to accelerate the digital transformation of financial services. The three-year deal will keep Finastra’s open developer platform sitting on...
View ArticleHybrid cloud use grows but is it the future?
Hybrid cloud growth has increased during the pandemic as organisations digitally transform their IT estate. The claim comes in the 2021 Hybrid Cloud Report from NTT Ltd (registration required). Over...
View ArticleCloud Application Delivery -Still A Work in Progress for Many
It’s hard to overstate the key role of application reliability and performance for today’s organisations. To compete effectively and grow in modern digital markets, businesses must meet high customer...
View ArticleSAP doubles down on Rise with SAP
SAP made a series of announcements aimed at accelerating the migration of customers to S/4HANA. With support running out for SAP ECC 6 in 2027, it is looking to nudge organisations towards the cloud a...
View ArticleSoftIron boosts its HyperCloud with new compute, storage and interconnect
SoftIron has boosted its HyperCloud with new compute, storage and interconnect options. It claims this will improve scalability, performance and user experience. The improvements are aimed at...
View ArticleSoftIron launches VM Squared for simpler virtualisation
SoftIron has launched VM Squared, an alternative to VMware’s vSphere product suite. The company claims that its new solution is simpler to use than VMware. With customers looking for an alternative to...
View ArticleSoftIron is making cloud and virtualisation simpler
SoftIron cut its cloud teeth by delivering a cloud-scale storage solution. Talking to customers, it discovered that while many wanted the benefits of public cloud, they also wanted a private...
View Article11:11 Systems reaches Pinnacle with Broadcom VMWare
11:11 Systems has announced that it has become a Pinnacle tier partner in the award-winning Broadcom Advantage Partner Program. It has become a VMware Cloud Service Provider (VCSP) Pinnacle tier...
View ArticleAWS reveals all…but what the heck is cloud anyway?
Clive Howard, Creative Intellect Consulting Ltd Last week Amazon published financials for its Amazon Web Services (AWS) business for the first time. These showed that the old man of public cloud...
View ArticleOpenStack interoperability and federated identity
OpenStack Powered At the OpenStack Summit taking place in Vancouver Canada, the two big announcements from day one are interoperability and federated identity. Both of these announcements should help...
View ArticleConnected Data sees customer surge
Geoff Barrall, CEO, Connected Data Connected Data has reported both revenue for Q2, 2015 and customer bookings in H1, 2015 have doubled. It has also appointed 50 new resellers globally. Compared to the...
View ArticleDell offers new terms
Dell announces new ways to pay for Hybrid Cloud Dell has announced three payment methods for corporates and CSP’s (Cloud Service Provider’s) to help with the financing of cloud computing. There are...
View ArticleBig Blue Box appears
Big Blue Box appears! IBM has announced that Blue Box Cloud is now available in IBM Softlayer data centres across the globe. Blue Box Cloud was acquired by IBM less than 90 days ago and provides a...
View ArticleInterxion builds Azure Expressroute link
Interxion connect Dutch data centre to Azure Expressroute Interxion has announced that they have directly connected their Amsterdam data centre to Azure Expressroute. Previously customers might have...
View ArticleIBM banks AU$450m with ANZ
ANZ signs AU$450 deal with IBM Scott Barlow, IBM Client Director for ANZ Bank IBM has signed a five year AU$450 million deal with banking giant ANZ. The deal will see ANZ increase its use of IBM...
View ArticleDell updates VMWorld 2015
Dell updates VMworld 2015 at San Francisco VMworld 2015 is proving as popular as ever with vendors using it to announce new products and updates to their existing product families. Dell has provided...
View ArticleIBM doubles Brazilian footprint
IBM adds second Sao Paolo Data centre IBM has announced the opening of a second IBM Cloud Sao Paolo data center in Jundiai. The data centre will provide a full range of of SoftLayer infrastructure...
View ArticleBluemix Local gets relay technology
IBM delivers Bluemix Local for customers who want control of their PaaS IBM has announced the immediate availability of Bluemix Local its Platform as a Service (PaaS) environment intended to help...
View ArticleNavigating the STORMy cloud market
Salim Benadel Founder & MD at Storm Internet Limited The CSP (Cloud Service Provider) market has been changing for several years. Companies that could offer cloud solutions are being undercut by...
View ArticleWipro accelerating software build
Wipro adopts IBM BlueMix Dedicated for future development Global information company Wipro has opted for IBM BlueMix as the core platform on which to accelerate the building of mobile and analytics...
View ArticleAccelerating China’s adoption of OpenStack
Mirantis and UCloud launch UMCloud Mirantis and UCloud, China’s largest private OpenStack provider, have formed a new company UMCloud to drive OpenStack adoption in China and to expand in the US. This...
View ArticleBlue Box gets local and dedicated options
IBM announces Blue Box Local and Dedicated IBM has announced the availability of Blue Box Local and Blue Box Dedicated as it seeks to extend its cloud reach. Cloud vendors are busy building out their...
View ArticleAmsterdam makes it 4 for 100TB
100TB Born to compute 100TB has announced the opening of a new datacentre in Amsterdam as part of its global expansion program. They have also added virtual private server locations in Los Angeles and...
View ArticleMetanautix gives Microsoft analytics boost
Microsoft acquires Metanautix Microsoft has acquired data analytics firm Metanautix for an undisclosed amount. The deal was announced on Friday and the Metanautix website went down almost immediately...
View ArticleMirantis gives its OpenStack some Liberty
Mirantis announces Mirantis OpenStack 8.0 Mirantis has announced v8 of its OpenStack distribution incorporating the OpenStack Liberty release. The company claims that this release is the most stable...
View ArticleShippable to speed software delivery
Shippable launches new continuous development tool Manisha Sahasrabudhe, co-founder and VP Product Management at Shippable Shippable has released its new continuous delivery platform to help developers...
View ArticleHPE targets SMB with Hyper Converged 380
HPE announces the Hyper Converged 380 HPE has announced the latest in its range of Hyper Converged systems at CeBIT, the Hyper Converged 380. The device was preannounced in last weeks earnings call...
View ArticleCenturyLink Cloud comes to Australia
CenturyLink Cloud comes to Sydney Australia Gery Messer, CenturyLink managing director, Asia Pacific CenturyLink is joining the surge of companies expanding in Australia by announcing the opening of...
View ArticleDriving growth with 3 new Sage X3 partners
Three new Sage X3 partners announced to drive growth David Vallance, Strategic Alliances UKI at Sage Sage announced three new Sage X3 partnerships this week. We spoke to David Vallance, strategic...
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