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• October 29, 2018 29 Oct'18

  IBM, Red Hat customers should watch acquisition closely

  IBM said Red Hat will remain independent after its $34 billion deal goes through, and there are reasons for customers to believe that.

• October 29, 2018 29 Oct'18

  IBM-Red Hat juggernaut targets hybrid clouds

  IBM and Red Hat plan to build a raft of complementary open source products to capture a huge hunk of the hybrid cloud market, but not offend their respective partners.

• October 23, 2018 23 Oct'18

  IBM eyes services bid with Multicloud Manager

  Organizations that run applications in a multi-cloud environment could benefit from IBM's Kubernetes-based management platform that supports on-premises and other cloud platforms.

• September 24, 2018 24 Sep'18

  Google Cloud CTO talks Cloud Services Platform hybrid play

  Google Cloud CTO Brian Stevens envisions an IT landscape where enterprises can more easily develop and manage apps that span on premises and the cloud. Hint: Kubernetes plays a big role.

• September 24, 2018 24 Sep'18

  Microsoft embraces Azure cloud platform as its strategic heart

  Microsoft's showcase of Azure-based offerings asserts the cloud at the heart of the company's future, and further cements its position against cloud archrival AWS.

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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 ...

• 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

  Microsoft Azure Dev Spaces, Google Jib target Kubernetes woes

  Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud both added cloud application development tools that improve and simplify the process of creating apps that run on the respective platforms.

• 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.