Called Project Photon and Project Lightwave, they provide an infrastructure and security model for containers in the cloud.
Up to 64,000 IOPS per VM is supported at the new tier.
Among the many challengers stepping into the ring, the top contender is Microsoft.
The container company is a darling of venture capitalists.
The IDC study also shows that most are using their clouds for IT operations.
Microsoft on Wednesday said it will offer Hyper-V container support to provide additional deployment scenarios and allow for the development of more scalable apps.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 04/09/2015
The company was founded by a former NASA CTO.
The cloud giant undercuts the competition in the "how low can you go?" contest.
Year-over-year sales were up more than 30 percent over 2013, according to IDC.
IBM Corp. opened two Network Innovation Centers to help customers explore software-defined networking (SDN), network functions virtualization (NFV), and other emerging virtualization and cloud technologies.
Redmond has released a second preview of Azure AD Connect.
The latest membership survey from the Open Data Center Alliance shows increased use of software-defined networking technologies with even more demand forecast for the near future.
The bundled service offering works with Hyper-V now, with VMware compatibility in the preview stage.
Disaster Recovery-as-a-Service vendor OnApp touts its wares.
- By Dan Kusnetzky
- 03/25/2015
Companies are beginning to address those concerns, a Zetta survey finds.
Connected Data Transporter 15 and 30 join a growing market of appliances for SMBs offering cloud security.
- By Dan Kusnetzky
- 03/23/2015
Mirantis announced the integration of Juniper Networks Contrail, a software-defined networking overlay platform, into its "pure-play" OpenStack distribution.
The poll revealed that 90 percent of companies are still wary of data protection in the cloud.
Recently besieged by competitors in a series of recent surveys that indicate strong challenges to its longstanding cloud supremacy, Amazon Web Services nevertheless was recently ranked by Forrester Research Inc. as the top public cloud platform for software development.
Google Inc. challenged established cloud services leader Amazon Web Services Inc. with last week's introduction of a beta Nearline Storage service for housing data that needs to be kept by enterprises but is infrequently accessed.