Chris Kanaracus
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DoD scraps politically fraught $10B JEDI cloud deal
The Pentagon's $10 billion cloud contract with Microsoft is no more. The DoD will solicit bids from Microsoft and AWS for a new pact called Joint Warfighter Cloud Capability. → Read More
Oracle offers on-premise support discount for cloud buyers
Oracle will give customers with on-premise support fees a discount when they purchase credits for its market-lagging Oracle Cloud Infrastructure platform. → Read More
Oracle Cloud lures developers with 'Always Free' services
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure lags rivals, but the company hopes that a broader set of free services will draw interest from a critical constituency – developers. → Read More
VMware's surprise CEO pick brings cloud tech chops
VMware has named longtime executive Rangarajan (Raghu) Raghuram as its new CEO, after the departure of Pat Gelsinger and VMware's spinoff from Dell EMC. → Read More
Amazon taps Tableau CEO Selipsky to lead AWS
Amazon has hired former executive Adam Selipsky, CEO of Tableau, as CEO of AWS. Selipsky worked at AWS for 11 years, running sales, marketing and support. → Read More
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure adds next-gen AMD EPYC instances
Oracle has rolled out new cloud infrastructure instances based on AMD EPYC processors. The move is Oracle's latest attempt to attract more diverse customers to its OCI platform. → Read More
Pandemic cloud migration push to have lasting impact
The COVID-19 pandemic boosted cloud migrations and provider revenue in 2020 as enterprises scrambled to adopt work-from-home strategies. Beyond revenue growth, the pandemic will likely result in permanent changes to enterprise IT buying habits, analysts say. → Read More
IBM buys observability vendor Instana
IBM has announced plans to buy Instana, a maker of application monitoring and observability tools. The company intends to couple Instana's technology with the Watson AIOps portfolio. → Read More
Oracle launches Cloud Observability and Management Platform
Oracle has launched Cloud Observability and Management Platform, a suite of services that it said provides a comprehensive way to monitor, log and remediate across the entire technology stack on multiple public clouds and on-premises environments. → Read More
Microsoft's Azure Arc reaches GA milestone
The ability to manage virtual and physical servers on premises and across multiple clouds is now generally available within Microsoft Azure Arc. It's an initial milestone for the hybrid cloud platform, which extends Azure's control plane to those environments. → Read More
Partner products now certified for AWS Outposts
AWS has certified more than 30 security, storage and networking products from its partners for Outposts, the on-premises version of its public cloud. While AWS continues to manage and upgrade Outposts racks and its own software, partners are in charge of supporting their own products. → Read More
Google, Microsoft add to their cloud migration toolkits
Google and Microsoft have rolled out additional cloud migration services and features in a bid to gain market share against AWS and each other. The competition comes as more enterprises take a multicloud approach to deployments. → Read More
Oracle Cloud at Customer adds Dedicated Regions
Oracle's Cloud at Customer managed service, which brings the company's cloud into a customer's private data center, is now available as a Dedicated Region. The expansion means that all Oracle cloud services, including its SaaS applications and the Autonomous Database, are now available on premises. → Read More
AWS Marketplace update eases SaaS contract changes
AWS Marketplace has upgraded its private offers feature, which allows sellers and buyers of cloud software to negotiate special contract terms. Now, customers who want to tweak existing contract terms before the period ends can do so and apply changes immediately. AWS's move benefits itself as well as customers and ISVs, analysts say. → Read More
Cloud use spikes amid COVID-19 but IaaS costs remain stable
The COVID-19 pandemic has sparked an uptick in business for AWS and its fellow hyperscalers as businesses adopt remote work practices. Customers should not worry for now about cloud costs going up, but should be especially careful in their spending plans, analysts say. → Read More
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure adds new AMD EPYC instances
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure now features instances powered by second-generation EPYC processors from AMD. The option could appeal to enterprise customers with mission-critical workloads that demand the best price-performance ratio. → Read More
Coronavirus pandemic ups the IT contract negotiation game
The global coronavirus pandemic has companies in every sector reeling from its economic impact. Savvy ones will closely examine their IT contract negotiation strategy in order to save money and preserve innovation efforts as best as possible, experts say. → Read More
Google Kubernetes Engine price change sparks discontent
Google plans to start charging an hourly fee -- again -- for cluster management on the Google Kubernetes Engine service, sparking protest from some users. But analysts say the price is reasonable, and to be expected, as container control plane management grows more complex. → Read More
Microsoft boosts Azure big data strategy with Hadoop distro
Microsoft has introduced a company-backed distribution of the open source Hadoop framework and a distributed version of PostgreSQL as part of its Azure big data strategy. → Read More
Google Cloud adds mainframe migration expertise via acquisition
Google Cloud has acquired Cornerstone, a Dutch company with long experience in the mainframe migration market. It's part of Google's general desire for more large enterprise workloads, but analysts said its chances of success are measured. → Read More