LinuxONE gets supercharged
IBM has announced a significant refresh for the LinuxONE z Systems platform it introduced in 2015. In the last year, IBM has seen its z Systems sales up 35% and the introduction...
Kloud to strengthen Telstra Cloud
Telstra announced that it has reached an agreement to purchase Kloud, a managed services and consultancy company that helps companies and government organisations make and deliver their strategy on cloud. The...
Google positioning itself as “ad fair”
Google has issued a blog to tell everyone how much it is doing to make advertising a safe environment. The blog comes a couple of days before the Interactive Advertising Bureau...
IBM launches cloud video unit
IBM has acquired Ustream as it sets out its stall to take on both Amazon and Netflix for cloud video market. The acquisition will be merged with three other IBM acquisitions,...
Will B2B online payments work?
The World Economic forum in Davos is the ideal event to launch a new B2B payments solution. SAP and First Data have done just that, announcing the roll out of AribaPay...
SAP HANA finds new home
On the eve of its latest results SAP and CenturyLink have signed a deal that will see a SAP HANA Enterprise Cloud offered by CenturyLink. CenturyLink has signed a global premium partnership...
Good causes get $1bn cloud from Microsoft
Microsoft Philanthropies has announced that it will donate up to $1 billion in cloud computing resources in the next 3 years to 70,000 non-profits and NGOs worldwide. The announcement was made both...
Can Avere FXT move NASA’s data universe?
Avere Systems has announced that the Ames Research Center, part of NASA, has selected the Avere FXT Series Edge Filers and flash offering to consolidate its existing storage and move data...
Equinix connects Australia and US Data Centers
Equinix has announced that it has directly connected data centres in Australia and the US using the Southern Cross Cable Network. The data centres connected are Equinix's International Business Exchange (IBX®)...
CyrusOne hooks into Megaport
CyrusOne has announced a deal with Megaport to deliver Software Defined Networking (SDN) services across all CyrusOne data centres in the US. The deal furthers Megaport's expansion plans inside the US...