Channel Research

Google Demands Warrants Before Releasing User Data

• January 25, 2013

Google is saying "no way" to US law enforcement. The company is standing up and demanding a warrant should law enforcement agencies wish to seize its cloud user data.

Dimension Data Aims to Accelerate Cloud Migration

• January 24, 2013

Dimension Data is rolling out a handful of cloud readiness services in the hopes of accelerating the migration to the cloud of its enterprise customers.

Microsoft Windows Azure Media Services Go Live

• January 24, 2013

Microsoft has announced the general availability of Windows Azure Media Services, an enterprise video streaming service that saw the light of day last year at the Olympics in London.

IBM Cloud Revenues Jump 80%: A Closer Look

• January 23, 2013

IBM cloud revenues rose 80 percent in Q4 2012. But how does that compare against Amazon, Google, Microsoft, HP, Dell and Oracle? Here are some estimates and educated guesses.

Red Hat Completes ManageIQ Acquisition

• January 23, 2013

Intermedia to Acquire Cloud Communications Solutions Provider Telanetix

• January 23, 2013

Cloud services and Hosted Microsoft Exchange provider Intermedia has signed an agreement to acquire Telanetix, a provider of cloud-based communications services, for approximately $55 million.

NephoScale, WebFWD Partner on Free Cloud Infrastructure

• January 22, 2013

NuoDB Launches Elastically Scalable Cloud Data Management System

• January 22, 2013

NuoDB is attempting to take cloud databases to the next level by pulling good efficiency and speed out of commodity hardware.

HP Cloud Leader Biri Singh Exits: Should Partners Worry?

• January 18, 2013

HP Cloud Services Leader Zorawar “Biri” Singh has exited the company. What does that mean for Hewlett-Packard’s public cloud, built on OpenStack? Here are some clues.

Symantec Survey: Poorly Planned Cloud Move Can Be Costly

• January 18, 2013

When it comes to cloud, sometimes the pitch seems a little too good to be true — save money, move capex to opex, increase productivity, ease management troubles, etc. Sometimes it feels like the promises only fall short of "it'll make your coffee in the morning."

ActiveState Launches Stackato Partner Program

• January 17, 2013

Private PaaS provider ActiveState has created a channel partner program around its Stackato offering. The new program will enable partners to work with ActiveState to promote and endorse Stackato as a component in an integrated technology solution.

Skytap Launches Pre-Configured Cloudera Hadoop into Hybrid Cloud

• January 16, 2013

Big Data continues to be a major trend within the cloud computing space, and now Skytap has launched a pre-configured version of Cloudera Hadoop into its own cloud platform so customers can quickly configure and launch Hadoop nodes.

Microsoft Launches New Products, Services Around Cloud OS

• January 16, 2013

Google Apps Cloud Partners Attract Venture Capital

• January 15, 2013

When it comes to Google Apps, venture capital firms seem to be falling in love with companies that work in and around Google’s cloud software suite. Two prime examples: BetterCloud and Cloud Sherpas. Here’s why.

Dropbox Outage Represents First Major Cloud Outage of 2013

• January 15, 2013

Not even half a month into the first month of the year, and now we've seen the first major public cloud outage of the year.