Cloud

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  Rackspace Laying Off 10 Percent Of Workforce, With Offshore Plans For Most

  by Joseph F. Kovar

  Rackspace at the same time is restructuring and hiring to shift its focus towards faster-growing product and services offerings, particularly new cloud services focused on cloud migration, elastic engineering, cloud-native application development, security, and other initiatives.

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  AllCloud’s Integress Acquisition ‘Bringing Together’ Expertise In AWS, Salesforce, Snowflake

  by Wade Tyler Millward

  ‘They attracted us from the perspective of actually bringing together a lot of what we‘ve been seeing in the front and front and back office converging,’ Gil says. ‘The AWS and the Salesforce customer base are seeking assistance in the world of data warehousing, analysis and visualization.’

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  Google Cloud’s Healthcare Data Engine Brings Interoperability, Power Of BigQuery To Industry Data

  by Donna Goodison

  ‘Healthcare Data Engine will help unlock the potential for clients to lower operational costs, drive innovation and realize deeper patient engagement, resulting in better outcomes for patients,’ says Gretchen Peters, healthcare practice lead at Maven Wave, a Google Cloud implementation partner for the new offering.

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  Google Cloud’s Looker Gets Microsoft Azure Support, Other New Features

  by Donna Goodison

  ‘The new Looker development portal enables developers to focus entirely on deriving insights from an organization’s data estate, creating new value from those golden nuggets while relieving them of repetitive development activities,’ says Paul Lewis, chief technology officer at Pythian Services, Google Cloud’s 2020 Specialization Partner of the Year for Data Management.

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  Salesforce Closes $27.7B Slack Acquisition, Preparing For Microsoft Teams Battle

  by Wade Tyler Millward

  ‘Together we’ll define the future of enterprise software, creating the digital HQ that enables every organization to deliver customer and employee success from anywhere,’ Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff says in a statement.

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  Virtuozzo Acquires OnApp, Targets Full IaaS, PaaS For Cloud Solution Providers

  by Joseph F. Kovar

  ‘Employees all of a sudden realized people work from home, at least part time. It’s the same with the IT stack. Why host anything on-prem?’ says Virtuozzo CEO Alex Fine.

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  IBM Q2 Sales Fueled By Red Hat, ‘Credibility’ Working With AWS, Microsoft

  by Wade Tyler Millward

  ‘Who has the credibility to go across multiple public clouds?’ IBM CEO Arvind Krishna asked rhetorically on the call. ‘Microsoft and Amazon are our partners, not only our competitors. And that is an important play that IBM has done for many, many decades, where we integrate across environments that our clients operate in.’

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  Amazon HealthLake Is GA Under New ‘AWS for Health’ Banner

  by Donna Goodison

  ‘Cloud providers developing industry-specific solutions is a positive, logical next step in the digital transformation to cloud, especially for healthcare, which has traditionally been behind other industries when it comes to technology and is frequently limited by legacy systems and their constraints,’ says Aater Suleman, vice president of cloud transformation at NTT DATA Services.

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  NetApp Spot, CloudJumper Form Complete Windows 365 VDI Infrastructure

  by Joseph F. Kovar

  ‘We’ve developed a service that combines all the automation and cost optimization that Spot has offered for years with the virtualization technology of CloudJumper to offer a VDI infrastructure,’ says Amiram Shachar, vice president and general manager of Spot by NetApp.

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  Expedient Brings Cost Optimization To Multi-Cloud, Hybrid Cloud Environments

  by Joseph F. Kovar

  With Cost CTRL, customers will be better able to set budgets around their cloud spend and analyze workloads to determine the right fit from a cost perspective in terms of where workloads should land, says Michael Fulton, Expedient’s vice president of innovation and strategy.

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  Partners See Red Hat OpenShift Momentum Under Steady Hand Of CEO Paul Cormier

  by Steven Burke

  “OpenShift is the new OS of the cloud,” said Vizuri Senior Vice President Joe Dickman. “Paul’s commitment to Linux and the benefits of Linux in the cloud are driving industry demand for a new computing paradigm. His vision for the next generation of computing is on target.”

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  Google Cloud Taps SAP Vet Adaire Fox-Martin As EMEA Cloud President

  by Donna Goodison

  Adaire Fox-Martin fills the vacancy left by Chris Ciauri, who served in the position for two years before leaving the company in March.

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  MSPs Provide Helping Hand To Peers Hit By Kaseya Ransomware Attack

  by Steven Burke

  ‘The MSP community came together,’ said Huntress co-founder and CEO Kyle Hanslovan. ‘MSPs could have taken a competitive stand and said – “Let ’em burn -- that is my competitor.” But instead of kicking them while they were down, they pulled them up. That is awesome.’

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  Was Jim Whitehurst Sending A Message To IBM In His ‘Act, Decide, Prioritize Quickly’ Post?

  by Steven Burke

  “Someone once said that more companies die of indigestion than starvation,” said Jim Whitehurst, the former IBM President who is now a senior advisor to IBM CEO Arvind Krishna and the IBM executive team in a LinkedIn post. “Companies try to do too much and not necessarily focus.”

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  Partner On AWS’ ‘Rebel Alliance’: ‘The Force Is With Microsoft’

  by Donna Goodison

  Amazon Web Services reportedly is in talks with companies including Dropbox, Slack and Smartsheet to bundle their products to better compete against Microsoft 365.