Atmosera helps move healthcare software provider to Azure
Summary: Atmosera disclosed healthcare software and services provider Millin Associates as a new customer for its managed third party cloud offerings. Millin was running Microsoft-based infrastructure...
View ArticleMicrosoft pushes into Indian cloud market with Jio partnership
Summary: Microsoft is to set up data centres in India as part of a 10-year deal signed with mobile operator Reliance Jio Infocomm, a subsidiary of India’s Reliance Industries. The first two data...
View ArticleMicrosoft buys jClarity to support Java workloads in Azure
Summary: Microsoft paid an undisclosed amount for London-based jClarity to boost its support for Java programming for workloads running in Azure. Established in 2012 and with just five employees,...
View ArticleMicrosoft opens 31 new edge sites
Summary: Microsoft is adding an additional 31 edge sites on its network for Azure. Microsoft’s edge sites are nodes that offer application acceleration, network management and edge caching as well as...
View ArticleMicrosoft opens new Swiss cloud regions
Summary: Microsoft opened two new Azure regions in Switzerland, based out of Geneva and Zurich. Switzerland is an obvious choice for in-country regions given its strict data residency regulations and...
View ArticleMicrosoft acquires analytics and cloud migration specialist Movere
Summary: Microsoft acquired Movere for an undisclosed sum. Movere (until last year known as Unified Logic) is a SaaS provider that maps enterprise IT environments. Its agentless bots can scan up to 1k...
View ArticleMicrosoft ExpressRoute nodes to expand soon
Summary: Microsoft’s recent edge expansion included confirmation of some new ExpressRoute meet-me sites for customers to on-board to Azure. Again, there were some interesting locations that caught our...
View ArticleAzure Ultra Disk Storage targets data-intensive workloads
Summary: Microsoft launched Azure Ultra Disk Storage, a high performance block storage service designed for data-intensive and mission-critical applications like SAP Hana and NoSQL databases. The...
View ArticleMicrosoft edge sites moving out further
Summary: Microsoft recently added 31 new edge sites for the Azure network. Locations included some major markets like Amsterdam and Frankfurt, but also included emerging markets that caught our...
View ArticleOracle and VMware tie-up in cloud; getting into value chain
Summary: Probably the most noteworthy development from Oracle OpenWorld 2019 from a cloud perspective was the Oracle/VMware tie-up. Details: The partnership was clearly important to Oracle and it was...
View ArticleSatellite operators sign up to bring Azure ExpressRoute connectivity to...
Summary: Microsoft signed up three satellite operators (Intelsat, SES and Viasat) as Azure ExpressRoute partners. They will be able to deliver private connectivity to Azure to locations where...
View ArticleOracle expands Azure interconnect; interoperable, multi-cloud
Summary: Oracle launched its interconnect service with Azure in June. At the time the service could only be obtained in Ashburn and London. In the next few quarters that will be expanded to the west...
View ArticleGreen Mountain offering Azure ExpressRoute in Norway
Summary: Norway’s Green Mountain became a Microsoft Azure ExpressRoute partner. The connection will be out of its DC1 Stavanger data centre in southwestern Norway. Green Mountain is expanding both its...
View ArticleMicrosoft executive comments points to cloud adoption in Canada
Summary: An executive for Microsoft in Canada shared some interesting data points about cloud adoption in the public sector. The executive confirmed that things like HR and financial systems are...
View ArticleMicrosoft, Pivotal partner on Azure Spring Cloud
Summary: Microsoft unveiled Azure Spring Cloud in partnership with Pivotal, which was recently acquired by sister company VMware for $2.7b. Spring Cloud is Pivotal’s framework to help Java developers...
View ArticleRackspace moves customer to Azure
Summary: Rackspace confirmed The British Heart Foundation as a managed third party cloud customer. Rackspace helped the customer move to Azure over a six-month period. The post Rackspace moves...
View ArticleAzure Kubernetes Service added to Cisco Container Platform
Summary: Cisco recently launched native integration of Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) as a managed Kubernetes option in its Cisco Container Platform, adding to support for AWS, GCP and IBM offerings....
View Article2nd Watch looking to support multiple clouds
Summary: 2nd Watch management confirmed plans to start supporting multiple cloud infrastructure platforms with help from the recent investment by ST Telemedia. To this point, 2nd Watch has only...
View ArticleTelos adds cloud capabilities to IT services portfolio
Summary: Ashburn, Virginia-based Telos Corporation rolled out a new cloud services practice that will support both AWS and Azure. It will provide assessment, consulting and migration from on-premise...
View ArticleWalt Disney selects Microsoft for cloud collaboration
Summary: The Walt Disney Studios and Microsoft signed a five-year partnership to pilot new ways of creating, producing and distributing content on Azure. The agreement centres around Disney’s...
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