Cisco moves on from Intercloud, will focus on cloud management instead
Cisco has pivoted away from its Intercloud strategy to instead focus on helping customers build private clouds and manage public cloud usage.
Stories by Brandon Butler
Why this hospital is moving to Amazon’s cloud
Contrary to traditional beliefs, health care organizations can use the public cloud, with the right precautions in place.
9 keys to having a HIPAA-compliant cloud
For a public IaaS cloud environment to be compliant with strict data privacy laws from HIPAA certain controls must be put in place. Here are 9 examples.
Case study: How LinkedIn uses containers to run its professional network
LinkedIn has grown over the past 13 years from a single Java app with a web server into a $26.2 billion acquisition target by Microsoft. In that time, LinkedIn’s infrastructure and engineering had to grow with the company. Here’s how they did it, and why they rely so heavily on application containers today.
What to do when the cloud eats your hardware vendor
Cloud revenues are increasing while traditional hardware vendors are either entrenching in their legacy strategies, expanding to new markets or transforming themselves. A new report from Forrester has advice about what enterprise buyers need to do in these tumultuous times.
NSX, and its new chief, take center stage at VMWorld
The new head of VMware’s networking and security business unit, a former Cisco and Broadcom executive named Rajiv Ramaswami, laid out the future vision for the company’s software defined networking platform NSX at VMWorld 2016.
VMware SDN’s new killer target: Cross-cloud management
At VMWorld this week, the virtualization giant VMware is positioning its fast-growing software defined networking product named NSX as a cross-cloud management platform, allowing customers to manage workloads across their on premises data centers and multiple public clouds.
VMware ‘Cloud Foundation’ integrates virtual compute, network and storage systems
To kick off its VMWorld conference, the virtualization giant launched VMware Cloud Foundation, a platform that integrates virtualized compute, network and storage software into a pre-integrated product.
12 most powerful hyperconverged infrastructure vendors
Hyperconverged infrastructure has emerged as an important platform for hosting private clouds, virtual desktops and new application development.
How Lyft gets a lift from Amazon’s cloud
Ride-hailing app Lyft launched in 2012 from Amazon Web Service’s cloud. Today, the company processes about 14 million rides per month, all still from AWS. At the recent AWS Summit in New York Lyft CTO Chris Lambert described how using the cloud allowed Lyft to grow into the company it is today.
How tech’s all-stars are playing the Olympics
Athletes will not be the only ones going for gold at the Olympics in Rio. Some of the biggest names in technology – from Cisco to Microsoft, HPE/Aruba and Google - have played a vital role in supplying back-end network technology for the games, and helping to deliver content to attendees and spectators around the world.
A look at Oracle’s 10 biggest acquisitions
Larry Ellison isn’t afraid to make big splashes in the M&A market. This week’s purchase of SaaS/ERP platform NetSuite is the second largest in company history. Here’s a look back at some of Oracle’s other big deals.
Dropbox aims for enterprise with new team and IT admin features
Continuing its effort to better appeal to enterprise users, Dropbox today announced a series of new features aimed at making its cloud-based storage and collaboration platform easier for teams of workers to use and IT administrators to centrally control.
A10 Networks makes pivot to cloud with Appcito acquisition
A10 Networks, with its acquisition this week of startup Appcito, has become the latest Application Delivery Control (ADC) company to make a big push into supporting cloud applications.
Microsoft, IBM tout cloud services as key drivers of earnings strength
It is earnings season, which for publicly-traded technology vendors in the cloud market means it’s time to update investors on the momentum of emerging products helping to displace eroding revenue from legacy offerings. For two technology vendor stalwarts – Microsoft and IBM - cloud computing has played a significant role in their earnings this quarter.