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• 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.

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• 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.

• June 08, 2018 08 Jun'18

  Google adds single-tenant VMs for compliance, license cares

  Google continues its quest to be a more enterprise-friendly cloud, as it adds VMs with isolated hardware that could help companies with specific legacy requirements.

• June 06, 2018 06 Jun'18

  JEDI cloud contract looms large for customers, providers

  Public sector IT and private sector IT can be very different animals, but a looming decision by the Department of Defense has the potential to send shock waves through both sides of the IT world. ...

• June 06, 2018 06 Jun'18

  Success of GitHub deal hinges on Azure's open source appeal

  Microsoft's ongoing détente with the open source community advances with a deal to purchase GitHub, the world's largest open source code repository.

• May 30, 2018 30 May'18

  Developers set to build AI for Accessibility apps

  Developers will support Microsoft's $25 million push to get software makers to build apps that benefit disabled individuals.

• May 23, 2018 23 May'18

  In a serverless architecture age, infrastructure still matters

  Sorry, developers, but infrastructure still matters, even as serverless architectures and containers diminish its central role to build new applications.

• May 18, 2018 18 May'18

  Google acquisition aims to simplify big data projects

  Google Cloud analytics tools are well-regarded for their technology, but not necessarily for their ease of use. Google's acquisition of Cask Data could solve that shortcoming.

• May 14, 2018 14 May'18

  Google buys Velostrata to take the lead on cloud migrations

  The latest Google acquisition is all about the enterprise market, as it aims to fold in Velostrata to ease the transition from private data centers to its public cloud.