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Salesforce Unveils Second Generation of Service Cloud (CMS Wire)

Salesforce rolled out the second generation of its Service Cloud this morning. Per Salesforce's usual M.O. for application upgrades, it sports faster set-up capabilities, productiv... More

7 Ways AI Could Impact Infrastructure Pros (NC)

Over the past few years, artificial intelligence (AI) technology has improved dramatically, and many industry analysts say AI will disrupt enterprise IT significantly in the near f... More

BP Powers Up with Microsoft Azure (ITProPortal)

Microsoft has revealed it will be taking its Azure cloud platform off-shore with a new partnership with BP. The energy giant has selected Microsoft Azure to be a central part of... More

Can’t Move to the Cloud? The Cloud Can Come to You (Forbes)

A lot of companies and government agencies would like to move IT operations to a public cloud, but local regulatory restrictions or other concerns prevent the move. Now, however, t... More

Oracle Adds SaaS to its ‘Stepping Stone’ Private Cloud (Cloud Pro)

Oracle is introducing line-of-business SaaS services to its cloud-in-a-box, designed for organisations who want to remain on-premise but benefit from cloud's subscription model. ... More

The 5 Fundamentals of Effective Cloud Management (CIO)

A big part of the CIO role today entails hashing out a cloud computing strategy. Deciding whether to build a private cloud or to offload some workloads to a public cloud system whi... More

Report: Amazon Teaming with VMware to Go Beyond the Cloud (CNBC)

Amazon Web Services is thinking about building software for corporate data centers as part of its recently formed partnership with VMware, according to a report on Monday. The w... More

Here’s How Azure Stack Will Integrate into Your Data Center (Data Center Knowledge)

Azure Stack, the turnkey hybrid cloud system that you can now order from server vendors like Dell EMC and Hewlett Packard Enterprise or get as a managed service from providers like... More

Box Offers Companies Free Tools for Building Apps on its Platform (VentureBeat)

Box announced a new initiative today that’s aimed at providing developers with a set of tools for building apps that use the company’s platform capabilities. Called Box Elem... More

Oracle Cloud Gets NetBonded to AT&T (Light Reading)

AT&T is addressing pent-up demand among its customer base by adding the Oracle Network Cloud Service - FastConnect to its AT&T NetBond for Cloud ecosystem, its 20th cloud participa... More

A Cloud in Your Datacenter? Azure Stack Arrives (InfoWorld)

At last it’s here: After a prolonged gestation with three public previews, Microsoft has announced the release of Azure Stack. Complete hardware and software solutions will ship ... More

AWS Public Sector Chief: ‘Procurement Bigger Barrier to Cloud Adoption than Security’ (Diginomica)

Amazon Web Services’ VP of worldwide public sector, Teresa Carlson, believes that getting government buyers to change how they think about procurement is now a bigger barrier to ... More

Microsoft Buys Cloud-Monitoring Vendor Cloudyn (ZDNet)

Microsoft is acquiring Israeli cloud-monitoring software-as-a-service vendor Cloudyn. Cloudyn provides cloud monitoring and analytics around consumption, cost, and performance of m... More

American Airlines Embarks on Global Cloud Transformation with IBM (MESA)

IBM announced that American Airlines will use IBM Cloud as the foundation for a massive cloud transformation designed to make internal processes more efficient, faster, easier and ... More

Microsoft, Box Ink Yet Another Cloud Partnership (Fortune)

On Tuesday, Box named Microsoft Azure as a "strategic cloud platform." Box and Microsoft will both sell "Box on Azure" to business customers around the world, according to a Box sp... More

AWS to Open Hong Kong Region (Datacenter Dynamics)

Amazon Web Services will open a cloud region in Hong Kong in 2018 - following rival Google’s failure to establish a footprint there. The new region is intended for new businesses... More

6 Trends Shaping IT Cloud Strategies Today (CIO)

Hyperconverge your private cloud: While more Forrester clients are citing security as a reason to shift to public cloud services not every CIO wants to accept risks associated with... More

AWS to Build NewData Center for US Government (Data Economy)

Amazon’s cloud business arm AWS has announced it will expand its data centre footprint to better serve Washington DC and the overall US Government IT needs. Barr said: “Governm... More

IBM Brings Identity-as-a-Service to Hybrid Cloud Environments (HITS)

IBM today announced a new service, delivered via the IBM Cloud, designed for managing how employees gain access to their preferred business applications. IBM Cloud Identity Connec... More

Microsoft Azure to be Exclusive Cloud Partner for BankChain (Times of India)

BankChain, a platform for banks in India to explore, build, and implement blockchain solutions, has selected Microsoft Azure as their exclusive cloud partner. As part of this partn... More

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