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.
The Azure Migrate solution is expected to be production-ready for organizations in the next six months.
Oracle's total cloud revenues grew at a healthy rate in its latest financial quarter, but it wasn't enough to assuage Wall Street concerns.
Amazon Web Services Inc. (AWS) this week announced the release of its next Linux server OS, Amazon Linux 2.
The company's Software-Defined Branch is an enterprise offering that reportedly simplifies and optimizes the cost of branch networks and WANs via the consolidation of multiple functions like routing, SD-WAN, firewall, UTM and SaaS optimization.
Gartner Inc. is reporting this week that worldwide server revenue is up 16 percent in Q3 2017, mainly due to the drive to build the "infrastructure to support cloud and hybrid-cloud implementations," as stated by Research Vice President Jeffrey Hewitt.
OpenContrail is described as a scalable network virtualization control plane that provides both feature-rich software-defined networking and strong security.
VMware and endpoint security firm Carbon Black are collaborating on a new security solution that aims to protect datacenters against unknown threats.
Redmond added more options to its Azure Virtual Machine (VM) offerings this month.