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• September 13, 2018 13 Sep'18

  Learn from these Microsoft's Azure outage postmortem takeaways

  Microsoft shed more light on last week's major Azure outage that generally confirm what everyone already knew -  a storm near the Azure South Central US region knocked cooling systems offline and ...

• September 07, 2018 07 Sep'18

  Azure outage spotlights cloud infrastructure choices

  One difference in Microsoft's cloud infrastructure design may have contributed to the extended outage this week in an Azure region that hit a large number of customers.

• August 31, 2018 31 Aug'18

  CloudHealth's Kinsella weighs in on VMware, cloud management

  VMware expanded its footprint in cloud management when it acquired CloudHealth Technologies. CloudHealth CTO Joe Kinsella observed the market changes that call for a complex management portfolio.

• August 28, 2018 28 Aug'18

  VMware swallows CloudHealth with eye on multi-cloud market

  VMware wants to simplify management of complex multi-cloud environments -- this time through the acquisition of third-party SaaS provider CloudHealth.

• July 27, 2018 27 Jul'18

  Want the new Google hybrid cloud? You'll need a middleman

  The much ballyhooed Google hybrid cloud architecture earned plaudits for its unique approach, but what didn't get much attention was who will sell and manage it on-premises. Spoiler alert: it's not ...

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• July 26, 2018 26 Jul'18

  Google seeks enterprise nod with GCP services in IoT, security

  Google continues to make strides to catch AWS and Microsoft Azure, with upgrades around edge computing and security. But it won't unseat either competitor anytime soon.

• July 25, 2018 25 Jul'18

  Google Cloud Services Platform moves hybrid approach on premises

  Google has focused its hybrid strategy around containers and microservices, as Cloud Services Platform extends some of the public cloud provider's software to users' data centers.

• July 17, 2018 17 Jul'18

  Walmart's cloud strategy sticks by OpenStack, despite Azure migration

  Walmart's cloud deployment strategy takes a big turn to Microsoft Azure, but it won't leave OpenStack completely in the dust. A five-year deal to make Microsoft Azure the preferred cloud provider ...

• July 16, 2018 16 Jul'18

  Microsoft bills Azure network as the hub for remote offices

  Azure Virtual WAN is Microsoft's bid to play in the emerging SD-WAN space, as it seeks to solve users' networking problems while it adds new customers.

• July 09, 2018 09 Jul'18

  Google's partner ecosystem remains a work in progress

  The Google Cloud ecosystem continues to expand, as Google improves its relationships with third-party vendors and tries to translate its technology to traditional IT shops.

• June 28, 2018 28 Jun'18

  VMware's managed Kubernetes service enters a crowded race

  VMware Kubernetes Engine is the latest service from vendors that want to jump into the container business, and it's another signal of VMware's changing take on cloud.

• June 26, 2018 26 Jun'18

  Google dives into elusive cloud file storage market

  Google Cloud Filestore may be the last piece of the puzzle for the vendor's storage services, but like its competitors' file offerings, it's far from a finished product.

• June 21, 2018 21 Jun'18

  Edge devices' compute demands complicate cloud IoT choices

  Cloud vendors want companies to use their platforms for the full scope of their IoT deployments, but that might not be their best choice. As edge computing emerges as part of IoT deployments, users ...

• June 20, 2018 20 Jun'18

  Pulumi aims to become standard cloud dev platform

  Aiming to help developers build and scale applications for multi-cloud environments, Seattle-based startup Pulumi has delivered a cloud development platform.

• June 20, 2018 20 Jun'18

  Unchecked cloud IoT costs can quickly spiral upward

  IoT sensors can produce seemingly endless streams of data, so users must beware how much to send back to the cloud to avoid jaw-dropping monthly bills.