A recent Gartner assessment of the worldwide public cloud market provides good news for hyperscale vendors like Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft and Google.
vSphere 6.7 and vSAN 6.7 include both new and enhanced features.
- By Wendy A. Hernandez
- 04/19/2018
Verizon has teamed up with other major players in the software-defined networking arena to bundle virtualization services for enterprises looking for an easier onramp to the new technology.
Open source, software-defined storage and a hybrid on-premises/cloud model have all converged in a new commercial offering announced by Nexenta.
Juniper Networks' OpenContrail open source network virtualization platform based on software-defined networking has officially moved under the umbrella of The Linux Foundation and is now called Tungsten Fabric.
Microsoft on Friday announced that its Azure Availability Zones datacenter uptime assurance offering for VM workloads is now commercially available in two Azure regions.
Microsoft released a preview on Monday of a new Serial Console command-line tool that's designed to help recover Linux and Windows virtual machines (VMs) running on Azure infrastructure.
It's a busy time in the software-defined networking and network functions virtualization arena, as multiple open source organizations backed by industry heavyweights recently announced new initiatives to foster their growth.
As part of a wider effort to bolster the security of its cloud platform, Google this week unveiled a new dashboard-type solution to help organizations monitor their cloud environments.
Verizon and Colt have demonstrated what they say is an industry-first breakthrough in software-defined networking orchestration in which they made near-real-time changes to bandwidth in each other's production networks.
Microsoft this week described its plans to increase its number of cloud datacenter regions, expanding the global reach of its Azure and Office 365 services.
Microsoft recently added new Azure Virtual Machine sizes, with options for running isolated and GPU-based workloads.
The Open Networking Foundation today announced next-generation software-defined networking interfaces and a new open source reference implementation for white-box switches to support them.
VMware announced a wide-ranging initiative to simplify multi-cloud adoption and expand its Cloud Services portfolio.
Hundreds of critical enterprise services were reportedly affected by an Amazon Web Services cloud platform outage on Friday.
Implementations of SD-WAN, one of the hottest areas of software-defined networking, are growing rapidly and are primarily driven by security concerns, according to new research from Versa Networks.
Microsoft has released its Azure Migrate planning tool for moving on-premises virtual machines and applications to Azure datacenters.
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
A recent study by migration analytics firm TSO Logic tries to pin down exactly why and how most organizations end up overpaying for cloud services.