Cloud 5: UK hospitals can use public cloud, the impact of a cloud outage
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IBM finally returns to positive revenue driven by cloud biz
For 22 quarters or 5.5 long years, IBM reported negative revenue growth, but last week the company finally announced a positive quarter. Revenue increased to $22.54 billion — and that beat analysts’ estimates. A good portion of that could be attributed...
Cloud 5: Apple boosts data center spending, Hyperscale causing memory shortage
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When cloud companies partner, customers usually win
When cloud companies team up, good things tend to happen for customers. It provides a way to combine different kinds of enterprise information in a seamless way. Cloud partnerships happen so often and so easily, it’s easy to take them...
Cloud 5: Meltdown and Spectre’s impact on cloud, Ford’s transportation cloud
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DoD removes Star Wars references from cloud planning memo
When it comes to the Pentagon and cloud computing, you don’t expect anyone to be playing around, but according to a Bloomberg report this week, a Pentagon official slipped in a couple of Star Wars references into the initial draft...
Cloud 5: Kubernetes future, AWS and Salesforce want to shed Oracle databases
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Data centers became big business in 2017
Data centers were a hot commodity in 2017. In fact, a report released by Synergy Research this week found that sales reached $20 billion, surpassing the totals of 2015 and 2016 combined. How active was the data center market last...
Cloud 5: Oracle buys a cloud present, another Chinese cloud company enters US market
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The cloud surged in 2017
As Frank Sinatra once crooned, it was a very good year. While he definitely wasn’t talking about cloud computing, 2017 was a year the cloud really became a standard way of computing — and it was a very good year....