Cloud Chronicles
Cloud Chronicles is written by Network World Senior Writer Brandon Butler, who tracks the ins and outs of the cloud computing industry in both this blog and his reporting at NetworkWorld.com. From the latest and greatest happenings from the biggest players in the cloud, to user stories about how these technologies are being implemented, this blog will tell you what’s happening, why it’s important and what the latest trends are driving the market.
Public – not hybrid – cloud dominates day 1 at Amazon re:Invent
There’s been a resurgence in the IaaS cloud computing market in the past year of vendors talking more and more about hybrid cloud computing. But at Amazon Web Service's re:Invent conference in Las Vegas, it's all about the public...
Amazon and Google make it easier to connect to the cloud
As more organizations look to enable hybrid cloud computing, a big question remains: How do I connect my network to the cloud? This week Google Cloud Platform and Amazon Web Services each released new products that make that process...
IBM’s latest private cloud is built on Kubernetes, and is aimed at Microsoft
IBM announced a new version of its private cloud platform that supports the popular open source application container platform Kubernetes.
What’s really behind the Cisco-Google hybrid cloud partnership
Cisco and Google have teamed up on a hybrid cloud partnership that will allow IT managers and application developers to use Cisco tools to manage their on-premises environments and link it up with Google’s public IaaS cloud. But...
At Ignite, Microsoft extends hybrid cloud beyond just infrastructure
This week at its Ignite conference in Orlando Microsoft is pitching its hybrid cloud strategy as being about more than just connecting customer data centers to the public cloud.
Top 10 DevOps tools
A DevOps engineer who both develops code for an app and manages the infrastructure operations the app runs on requires tools geared for multiple aspects of the application lifecycle process. Here are the top 10 tools DevOps...
Why the Red Hat-Amazon partnership is a big deal in the cloud
The company known for commercializing open source projects for the enterprise has parterned with the leading public IaaS cloud provider in move that will make it easier to build apps on premises and port them into the public cloud.
How Google and Amazon think about multi-cloud workloads
Google is willing and open to talking about customers using other vendor’s cloud products and services, including from their biggest rival, AWS.
Amazon's ambitious global cloud expansion plans
Public IaaS cloud providers have been on a dizzying streak of announcing and opening new data centers to power their operations, and according to the CEO of Amazon Web Services Andy Jassy, that’s not expected to slow down any time...
Dunkin’ runs on AWS
As Dunkin' Donuts and Baskin-Robbins increasingly encourage customers to use mobile apps to pay and rack up rewards, the company needed a new hosting platfrom to deal with unexpected peaks in traffic, so it turned to Amazon Web...
Containers are growing up
Microsoft’s purchase of Deis shows that as container runtimes standardize, the real value is higher up the stack
The one thing you need to compete in cloud
New estimates out this week from Synergy Research suggest that in the cloud computing market the big are getting bigger, and that in order to compete in this market, scale is key.
Serverless computing in practice
When startup Alpha Vertex wanted to build a knowledge database that takes into account a wide variety of financial data, it turned to serverless computing and machine learning algorithms.
Free cloud storage buyer beware
In the past two years, more than half of the reputible vendors we found offering free cloud storage have withdrawn or reduced their free cloud storage offering.
This augmented reality app will help you to furnish your home
Will that new couch fit in my living room? In the old days you would have to break out a tape measure to see if furniture fits and what it would look like in the room. But thanks to advancements in augmented reality, you can now see...
Microsoft hit with second cloud disruption in two weeks
A handful of hosted Microsoft services, including Office 365 SaaS apps, OneDrive cloud storage and xBox Live platforms experienced an outage on Tuesday into Wednesday, according Microsoft and services that track outages.
IBM’s bringing Watson to a whole bunch of new developer tools
As IBM welcomes an estimated 20,000 developers, customers and partners to Las Vegas this week for its InterConnect conference, a running theme throughout the three-day show is providing application builders with cognitive and...
IBM + Red Hat = An open source hybrid cloud
IBM Cloud and Red Hat OpenStack and storage teams are partnering to integrate their products and in doing so are creating a compelling hybrid offering for open source-minded customers.
Microsoft’s Azure cloud storage had a rough night
On Wednesday night into the early morning hours of Thursday Microsoft reported that its Azure cloud customers had difficulty provisioning storage resources, including in its Eastern US region.
Cloud price wars are back on
Last week Google announced Commited Use Discounts for its cloud. This week Amazon responded by making its cloud-based virtual machines more flexible. Cloud pricing wars are back on and vendors fight for enterprise business.
