RightScale says Microsoft's Azure cloud computing platform is chasing undisputed leader Amazon Web Services in the race for enterprise market and mind share.
In a move widely seen as a direct challenge to current cloud-infrastructure leaders Amazon Web Services Inc. (AWS), Google Inc. and Microsoft, Oracle Corp. announced plans this week to quadruple its current datacenter operations across Asia, Europe and the Americas.
- By John K. Waters
- 02/20/2018
If you're sitting on the fence about investing your time and your company's resources in containers, here are five reasons why doing so is a good idea.
While not completely comprehensive, there are a number of different policy settings that are exposed through the Active Directory Administrative Center.
The fifth and final article of a five-part series on Microsoft's Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL).
The Apache Software Foundation today announced CloudStack v4.11, the newest version of its Infrastructure-as-a-Service platform for enterprise cloud orchestration.
Brien Posey explains how joining a cloud-based directory service is very similar to joining an on-premises Active Directory forest.
This week virtualization-based application security provider Waratek announced the release of the newest addition to its Runtime Application Security Platform, Waratek Patch.
- By Wendy A. Hernandez
- 02/06/2018
Rick Vanover steps through setting up a user account mailbox in Office 365.
- By Rick Vanover
- 02/06/2018
It might be tempting to assume that 2018 will be smooth sailing for the containerization movement. However, things aren't quite that simple.
VMware has taken the wraps off a new appliance that lets users of its vSphere cloud computing virtualization platform perform analytics, serverless computing and even machine learning on Internet of Things edge devices via the AWS Greengrass service.
AT&T, one of the companies at the forefront of the modern software-defined networking (SDN) and network functions virtualization (NFV) movements, said it will open source a homegrown project that champions the use of white-box hardware in such new-age installations.
Microsoft's relentless focus on transitioning to the cloud have resulted in strong financial results for the second quarter of its fiscal 2018.
- By Scott Bekker
- 02/02/2018
Red Hat Inc. this week announced that it has entered into an agreement to acquire enterprise-ready Kubernetes platform and container-native solutions provider CoreOS for the reported purchase price of $250 million.
- By Wendy A. Hernandez
- 01/31/2018
VMware Inc. announced the 1.3 version release of its enterprise container infrastructure technology, vSphere Integrated Containers.
- By Wendy A. Hernandez
- 01/30/2018
The fourth article of a five-part series on Microsoft's Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL).
The Cloud IP Platform from Versa Networks can help organizations implement SD-WANs on the Amazon Web Services cloud, according to research commissioned by the cloud giant.
The Linux Foundation, said to host nine of the top 10 open source networking projects, is seeking to foster collaboration among those disparate offerings with a new "administrative structure" called the LF Networking Fund.
According to several news reports, it appears there might be a reverse merger of Dell and VMware.
- By Wendy A. Hernandez
- 01/29/2018
In its "Most Promising Jobs 2018" report published in mid-January, LinkedIn includes a list of the most in-demand skills, with Cloud and Distributed Computing landing at the top.