Chris Talbot 1, Author at Channel Futures

The latest development out of Google building its containerization strategy is the beta release of Google Container Registry

Google Container Registry Offers Hosting, Sharing of Containers

Google is expanding its capabilities for containers with the addition of Container Registry, which offers secure hosting, sharing and management of private container repositories.

Satya Nadella president and CEO of Microsoft

Microsoft Earnings Expected to be Driven by Cloud

Microsoft’s earnings will be released today, and according to Forbes, it’s expected that its cloud products will be a key driver in its growth.

Is Rackspace becoming more than an OpenStack company

Rackspace Unveils VMware vCloud-Based Cloud Service

Rackspace is continuing to branch out from its OpenStack cloud roots with the launch of a private cloud offering based on VMware vCloud.

Hosting has released new public and private cloud services offerings built on Microsoft Azure Pack

Hosting Builds Public, Private Clouds With Microsoft Azure Pack

Microsoft partner Hosting has taken the Azure Pack and build two cloud offerings based on it — one public and one private. It’s a good example of what some partners are doing to build their own IaaS offerings and tie them into the bigger cloud providers’ own services.

Google Local SSD was designed mainly for highly demanding applications that provide their own replication

Google Compute Engine Local SSD Exits Beta

Google Compute Engine’s Local SSD option is now generally available to the cloud provider’s customers and partners. It was designed mainly for highly demanding applications that provide their own replication.

Bill Thompson vice president of video services at Carousel Industries

Carousel Industries Releases Cloud-Based Videoconferencing Option

Carousel Industries has launched a cloud-based videoconferencing offering based on public and private cloud technology from Pexip. Its new New Simplicity Video solution was designed to primarily for SMBs.

Sirish Raghuram cofounder and CEO of Platform9

Platform9 Launches Managed OpenStack Private Cloud Solution

Platform9 is hoping to make it easier for organizations to adopt private cloud with the introduction of Platform9 Managed OpenStack, a product aimed at making it easy for organizations to launch a private cloud based on the popular open source cloud solution.

Equinix to Drive Hybrid Cloud With Nimbo Purchase

Equinix has acquired Nimbo to further build out its professional services capabilities to support data center migrations.

Microsoft39s ExpressRoute partners have come on board to support the promotion

Microsoft: Try ExpressRoute for Free Through Partners

Microsoft is now offering a free trial of ExpressRoute through several of its network service provider partners.

FortyCloud partners with Numergy to address the market39s demand for localization

FortyCloud, Numergy Partner for Localized Clouds

Numergy and FortyCloud partner to provide localized cloud offerings as an alternative to the global public cloud services.

John Myers managing research director for business intelligence and data warehousing at Enterprise Management Associates

More Than Half of Enterprise Have Cloud-Based Analytics Strategy

An end-user research study conducted by Enterprise Management Associates uncovered data that shows more than half of enterprises consider cloud-based analytics important to their businesses.

Marten Mickos senior vice president and general manager of HP39s cloud business

HP Aims to “Make the Most of” Amazon’s Leadership

There’s fight. There’s flight. And there’s making the most out of the situation. And the last option is the one HP is choosing in the cloud market currently dominated by Amazon Web Services.

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IBM Opens First Cloud Data Center in Mexico

IBM has opened its first cloud data center in Mexico, providing data residency within the region and more redundancy in the Americas. The significance for IBM and its customers is in the providing of data resiliency within the region, as well as more redundancy in the Americas and the offering of the complete SoftLayer offering.