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• April 17, 2017 17 Apr'17

  Elasticsearch cloud partnership plays to Google's base

  Google's cloud partnership with Elastic brings the open source search engine and analytics tool to GCP, as Google tries to appeal to enterprises without ignoring its customer base.

• April 13, 2017 13 Apr'17

  IBM AIX users look forward to a cloudy future

  IT organizations that rely on AIX-based applications still whirring away may feel the cloud computing age is passing them by -- but help is on the way.

• April 07, 2017 07 Apr'17

  With vCloud Air sale, VMware clears cloud computing path

  After a few frustrating years trying to position vCloud Air, VMware finally found the answer -- sell it off to French-based cloud provider OVH.

• April 06, 2017 06 Apr'17

  Native Azure monitoring tools cater to enterprise IT

  New Azure monitoring tools add another layer of insights into workload performance on the public cloud as providers try to meet enterprise demands and increase transparency.

• March 23, 2017 23 Mar'17

  IBM to remove complexity around cloud storage service tiers

  Public cloud customers have a range of storage options but still battle with complexity. IBM's Flex service is intended to ease that issue and get a leg up on the market.

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• March 21, 2017 21 Mar'17

  IBM cloud management tools aim to facilitate hybrid clouds

  Enterprises shooting for a hybrid cloud strategy to deploy workloads get some new ammunition to help access and manage data from services and applications wherever that data resides.

• March 10, 2017 10 Mar'17

  IoT, industry demands nudge IT pros toward distributed cloud model

  As IoT workloads proliferate in the enterprise, more organizations will process data closer to the network edge. But that doesn't mean cloud computing is near its end.

• March 09, 2017 09 Mar'17

  Google Cloud Platform stakes its claim on higher-level services

  Google cut prices and added a host of new features, as it tries to catch AWS and emphasize higher-level services it sees as the future of the public cloud.

• March 09, 2017 09 Mar'17

  Google Cloud Platform continues enterprise march with new customers, SAP

  With a handful of new customers and integration with SAP HANA, Google reiterates its readiness to support enterprise workloads on its public cloud platform.

• February 23, 2017 23 Feb'17

  Kubernetes on Azure hints at hybrid cloud endgame

  Microsoft's Azure container strategy could take hybrid computing to an entirely new level and help launch both technologies into more mainstream waters.

• February 14, 2017 14 Feb'17

  New Google cloud database service brings scale, data consistency

  Google's Cloud Spanner may be years from broad adoption, but could represent a big step toward maintaining consistency across the globe with massive data sets in the public cloud.

• February 10, 2017 10 Feb'17

  Azure program defends customer IP against patent trolls

  Microsoft defends customers' intellectual property against cloud patent trolls under a new program, as open source takes on greater relevance in Azure.

• February 06, 2017 06 Feb'17

  For enterprises, multicloud strategy remains a siloed approach

  Enterprises need a multicloud strategy to juggle AWS, Azure and Google Cloud Platform, but the long-held promise of portability remains more dream than reality.

• January 26, 2017 26 Jan'17

  HPE-Cloud Cruiser deal shows IT need for cloud cost management tools

  HPE scooped up cloud cost management vendor Cloud Cruiser this week, a move that might cause some users to question whether the tool will continue to offer multicloud support.

• January 25, 2017 25 Jan'17

  Azure licensing reduces pay-as-you-go options

  Changes to Azure licensing options that streamline pay-as-you-go options underscore Microsoft's subscription-based business model and its commitment to channel partners.