Cloud

VMware And Pivotal: What Would A Merger Mean For The Cloud Foundry/Kubernetes Debate

by Joseph Tsidulko

A leading Pivotal and VMware partner sees potential to bring closer together the competing platforms, and to expand market reach for both Pivotal Cloud Foundry and the Pivotal Container Service (PKS) joint project with VMware

Cloudflare, At Center Of 8Chan Controversy, Files To Go Public

by Joseph F. Kovar

Cloudflare, which enhances website security and performance and has a growing channel program, is filing for an IPO in the midst of concerns about how it and similar companies face issues caused by the kind of customers who uses its services.

Virtual Instruments Acquires Metricly, Expanding Public Cloud Reach

by Joseph Tsidulko

The infrastructure and workload management vendor, a player in the emerging AIOps category, looks to become a full-fledged hybrid solution with the deal for a public cloud monitoring specialist

Amazon’s B2B Play Has Solution Providers On The Defensive

by Diana Blass

At XChange 2019, analyst Michael Diamond discusses research showing big retailers like Walmart and Amazon are increasingly targeting the B2B market, and that means solution providers should think about redefining their go-to-market strategy.

Inspector General's Office Elaborates On Scope Of Latest JEDI Probe

by Joseph Tsidulko

Another investigation into alleged conflicts of interest around the Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure procurement process casts further doubt on the timeline for the military's massive cloud transformation initiative.

Microsoft Wins 10-Year Cloud Services Deal With Indian Telecom Jio

by Donna Goodison

‘Our ambition is to help millions of organizations across India thrive and grow in this era of rapid technological change,’ says Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella. ‘Together, we will offer comprehensive technology solutions -- from compute and storage, to connectivity and productivity -- to SMBs everywhere in the country.’

Microsoft Partners, Responding To Competitors’ Complaints Of New License Transfer Policy, Say All's Fair In Cloud Wars

by Joseph Tsidulko

Amazon and Google execs have derided an updated policy closing a loophole for transferring on-prem Microsoft Windows and SQL licenses to cloud providers. Microsoft partners see hypocrisy in their complaints and encourage the software giant to continue leveraging its competitive advantage

iNSYNQ Ransomware Attack Started With Phishing Email: Report

by Donna Goodison

'It also looks like the intruders spent roughly 10 days rooting around iNSYNQ’s internal network to properly stage things before unleashing the ransomware,” Brian Krebs, who reports on cybercrime, writes in a post on his “Krebs on Security” blog. 'iNSYNQ ultimately declined to pay the ransom demand, and it is still working to completely restore customer access to files.'

Latest JEDI Cloud Doc Sheds Light On Channel Opportunity

by Joseph Tsidulko

The Department of Defense, in trying to shoot down ‘myths’ around the military's cloud transformation initiative, has elaborated on the role still available for partners to play to implement its massive transformation initiative.

Microsoft Licensing Change Triggers Hyper-Scale Feud

by Joseph Tsidulko

Google Cloud President says the new restriction on transferring on-prem Windows and SQL Server licenses to single-tenant cloud services reminds of Microsoft's "greatest hits from the 90s". And Amazon's CTO calls it a bait-and-switch ‘to force MS use.’

AWS Unveils End User Computing Competency For Advanced, Premier Consulting Partners

by Donna Goodison

'End-user access to company data is facing increased security threats and compliance requirements, accompanied by a growing workforce of mobile and contingent workers,' says Renata Melnyk, an AWS senior partner program manager.

CircleCI Delivers Windows Support For Its Popular Cloud-Based DevOps Tools

by Joseph Tsidulko

The CI/CD vendor previously only supported Linux and Mac environments. By entering the Microsoft ecosystem, it opens its SaaS products up to almost half the enterprise development market.

AWS To Launch New Database Certification Program For Partners

by Donna Goodison

'We have over 200,000 certified individuals across the globe now, and that number is growing rapidly,' says Maureen Lonergan, AWS' director of worldwide training and certification, citing a newly public AWS statistic. 'We think it's been wildly successful in terms of just the number of people that are interested in it and the growth in the program.'

With Red Hat's OpenShift Officially IBM's Kubernetes Platform Of Choice, Merging Of Portfolios Begins

by Joseph Tsidulko

The first joint product since IBM's acquisition of Red Hat closed three weeks ago is a set of Cloud Paks that offer containerized IBM middleware built on top of OpenShift to drive rapid, multi-cloud deployment.

CRN Exclusive: Meet IBM's New Channel Chief

by Joseph Tsidulko

John Teltsch and David La Rose, outgoing and incoming IBM ecosystem leaders, respectively, discuss passing the baton, completing a massive channel revamp, and integrating Red Hat while preserving its independence.