In the Know: 5 Cloud Stories to Review, Jan. 7
Talkin’ Cloud at the end of each day pulls out five must-read cloud computing stories from the news cycle for its readers to review in the morning. Today’s column features Blue Box, Global Capacity and Entisys Solutions.
Some of these stories have been gathered from Talkin’ Cloud’s article database, while others have been collected from elsewhere. If we missed something, feel free to leave a comment below. We might just add it into the mix.
Here’s today’s list of five cloud computing stories to know for today.
Blue Box Raises Additional $4M in Funding for Private Cloud as a Service. Blue Box has completed a Series B round of financing, bringing the total funding of this round to $14 million. The PCaaS solutions provider has raised a total of $23.1 million in funds since 2012.
Entisys Purchases Premier IT Solutions to Expand Enterprise Data Center Practice. Entisys Solutions has acquired Premier IT Solutions, a company specializing in software testing and performance monitoring. The financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.
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3 Skills IT Professionals Need in 2015. An IT professional is a textbook example of a knowledge worker — someone only as valuable as their know-how. There are always more skills for IT workers to master, but cross-industry trends will put a new premium on security, mobile applications and analytical expertise with big data in the coming year. Here’s what IT admins should pay attention to in 2015.
Global Capacity Purchases MegaPath’s Network Services Business. Chicago-based CaaS company Global Capacity has finalized the acquisition of MegaPath’s network services business. Terms of the agreement were not disclosed.
Rackspace Customers to Transition Off Slicehost Cloud. Rackspace is finally putting the final nail in the coffin of its Slicehost-based cloud servers, and through 2015, it will help customers still hanging onto the aging first-generation cloud migrate to its OpenStack-based IaaS offering.
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