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Rackspace reports 2Q16 results; many moving parts but the shift to managed...
Summary: Rackspace reported its 2Q16 results, which were modest on the top-line due to foreign exchange headwinds and some divestitures of non-strategic assets. But the healthy forward trajectory of...
View ArticleUCX Eclipse deploys Microsoft cloud solution for Australian bank
Summary: UXC Eclipse, a subsidiary of CSC, deployed a Microsoft cloud-based IT solution for Beyond Bank, one of Australia’s largest customer-owned banks with over 200k customers and 600 employees....
View ArticleSherWeb to resell and manage Azure cloud
Summary: Montreal-based SherWeb will add the Azure cloud to its portfolio of infrastructure services. SherWeb has shifted away from just messaging to managed infrastructure services and introduced a...
View ArticleRackspace eyes European opportunities through third party cloud model
Summary: Rackspace does a substantial amount of business in the UK and far less on continental Europe. It is now looking more closely at opportunities there. Expansion to new markets would normally...
View ArticleRackspace extends managed security to Azure cloud
Summary: Rackspace extended its managed security services to the Microsoft Azure cloud. At the top Aviator service level, Rackspace takes a proactive approach and remediates security issues. It also...
View ArticleMicrosoft set to Drop Azure RemoteApp, work with Citrix on XenApp Express
Summary: Microsoft confirmed it will phase out its remote application delivery service, Azure RemoteApp in favour of Citrix XenApp. The two companies are working together on a new version of XenApp...
View ArticleLand O’Lakes adds Azure to its roster of cloud service providers
Summary: Minnesota-based agricultural technology firm Land O’Lakes is moving its existing Microsoft Office and related applications to Office 365. The company will also use the Azure Cortana Analytics...
View ArticleUK’s Met Office switches from Google cloud to Azure PaaS
Summary: The UK’s Met Office has been running its weather observations website (WOW) on the Google cloud platform since 2011, but has transitioned it to Azure for its PaaS capabilities so it can pull...
View ArticleAtmosera builds on Azure cloud; increasing scope, saving CapEx
Summary: Atmosera, a managed hosting and colocation provider based in Portland, introduced the Follow the Sun Master Data service. Details: The service is a core part of Atmosera’s managed Azure cloud...
View ArticleThomson Reuters discloses data centre metrics, public cloud strategy
Summary: Thomson Reuters management revealed it had consolidated 550 data centres down to 200. The ultimate goal is to reduce that number to 18. It had racked up that number through acquisition and the...
View ArticleMicrosoft opens UK data centres
Summary: Microsoft pressed ahead with plans announced last November to open a data centre in the UK to host Azure and Office 365. Details: The company in fact opened data centres in four UK locations....
View ArticleRackspace wins managed Office 365, Azure deal
Summary: Rackspace will provide managed services for AlertLogic’s use of Office 365 across its 700 employees. AlertLogic also runs its Microsoft Active Directory Federated Services on the Azure cloud...
View ArticleManaged Azure versus AWS customer sources differ
Summary: We got an interesting nuance out of a few conversations lately about managed third party cloud services. For those doing managed Azure, the existing customer already doing business with the...
View ArticleOneNeck moves customer on to Azure for DR
Summary: OneNeck shared that one of its Oracle hosting customers used it to build and manage a DR environment on the Azure cloud. A good snapshot of an existing customer buying managed third party...
View ArticleMicrosoft cloud Germany opens
Summary: Microsoft’s expansion plans in Europe are forging ahead with the opening of a dedicated Azure cloud location in Germany. Two Azure regions are hosted out of data centres in Magdeburg and...
View ArticleCoreSite adds Microsoft ExpressRoute in New York
Summary: CoreSite launched its CoreSite Open Cloud Exchange at its New York campus, enabling direct private connections to Microsoft Azure cloud services via ExpressRoute. This adds to a deployment in...
View ArticleAmerican Airlines to move to cloud; evaluating providers
Summary: American Airlines Group, the world’s largest airline by traffic, is planning to move key portions of its customer website and other applications to cloud, and expects to make a decision on its...
View ArticleRenault-Nissan connected car alliance selects Microsoft Azure
Summary: The Renault-Nissan alliance awarded Microsoft a global multi-year contract whereby the parties will develop Azure-powered connected services for cars, such as navigation, software updates,...
View ArticleGoogle could be next massive-scale cloud to enter Canada
Summary: We are hearing that another massive-scale cloud provider – presumably Google – is looking at the Canadian market for its next infrastructure expansion. Recent activity has centred around...
View ArticleGoogle trying new approach to support; morph to service provider?
Summary: Google is trying a new approach to customer support for its cloud infrastructure customers. It now believes that application performance is a shared responsibility. Google plans to integrate...
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