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Survey: Private cloud revenues could pass public cloud in the next year, thanks to OpenStack
Private cloud adoption and revenues are being boosted by growth in the number of multi-cloud deployments, according to a new OpenStack survey carried out by 451 Research Inc. The survey, which was released to coincide with this week’s OpenStack Summit taking place in Sydney, Australia, predicts that deployments of the OpenStack platform will rise at ...
Cloud services are still notching solid growth this year
Public cloud services continue to grow at an extremely rapid rate, according to research firm International Data Corp.’s latest figures, with adoption rising in all three categories: software as a service, platform as a service and infrastructure as a service. IDC said that the overall public cloud services market has grown by almost 29 percent ...
Pop star will.i.am’s tech startup creates an AI-powered voice assistant for enterprises
American pop star and entrepreneur will.i.am’s tech startup i.am+ is getting into the enterprise computing game with the creation of a new artificial intelligence-based voice assistant designed to power customer service chatbots. The launch comes as the startup announced it has secured a total of $117 million in venture capital funding, including a recent $89 ...
Red Hat expands Ceph Storage to support containers and file storage
Open-source Linux provider Red Hat Inc. Monday said Monday it’s adding new capabilities to its popular Ceph Storage platform, making it more versatile than before. The company’s massively scalable object and block storage product now supports file storage in OpenStack deployments. Other new capabilities include the ability to deploy Ceph in application containers, plus greater ...
Juniper updates its Contrail Cloud platform for telcos
Networking company Juniper Networks Inc. is updating its Contrail Cloud platform today with new capabilities to help service providers build highly scalable cloud environments. Juniper’s Contrail Cloud is an integrated cloud platform for telecommunications firms that enables them to run high-performance Network Functions Virtualization technologies, replacing dedicated network appliances such as routers and firewalls with ...
Red Hat adds containerized services to its latest OpenStack Platform release
Red Hat Inc. is shipping out an updated version of its OpenStack infrastructure-as-a-service platform that’s designed to bring the features of public clouds such as Amazon Web Services to private data centers. The company said Red Hat OpenStack Platform 12 is based on the latest OpenStack Pike release that was shipped in August. One of ...
Bye-bye Bluemix: Big Blue dumps the brand in favor of ‘IBM Cloud’
IBM Corp. is killing off the “Bluemix” brand name for its platform-as-a-service offerings for creating cloud computing applications and instead will lump all of its cloud products under “IBM Cloud” badge. The move follows IBM’s decision last year to dump its old “SoftLayer” brand name, which was previously used to identify its infrastructure-as-a-service products such ...
Look out, Amazon: Alibaba’s cloud revenue is doubling annually
Chinese Internet giant Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. breezed past analysts’ expectations in its latest quarter, reporting revenue up 61 percent thanks to solid growth in its primary commerce business and its cloud computing arm. Alibaba said in a press release Thursday that its burgeoning cloud business saw revenues jump by 99 percent to $447 million for ...
Tableau Software’s stock tanks after missing earnings target
Tableau Software Inc. saw its stock crash today after reporting earnings that fell short of Wall Street’s expectations. The Seattle-based company, which provides data visualization tools for enterprises, reported a profit of 8 cents per share on revenue of $214.9 million. Wall Street was hoping for 9 cents per share on $219.4 million in revenue. Tableau did ...
Google Cloud Platform gets lower latencies, faster connections
Google LLC announced some updates to its cloud platform today that should lead to a significant reduction in network latency for its customers and faster, more secure connections for those seeking higher availability. The first update relates to part of the core infrastructure of Google’s cloud. The internet giant said it’s updating the Andromeda software-defined ...