Google executives talked up the cloud on its earnings call this week, though the company declined to provide specifics.

Microsoft, Google, IBM, Alibaba and Oracle might have grown more in the first quarter of 2017, but AWS remains in a class by itself in the public cloud market.

In a look at the shortlisted companies for the Most Innovative Enterprise/SMB Service award, check out three very different approaches to helping enterprises and SMBs be more efficient in communicating.

Azure doubles sales again in Q1, as officials play up their plans to blur the cloud/enterprise border with Azure Stack and SQL Server 2017.

Amazon released its first-quarter financial results on April 27. Although AWS once again slowed a bit, the company's public cloud platform is still pulling in impressive amounts of money for the retail giant.

Collecting data from industrial devices to build digital models tests the limits of networking and cloud.

Changes in how enterprises and their IT departments are using the cloud has Cisco thinking about where multicloud is and where it's going.

As established retailers face a die-off, Gap Inc. looks to technology to survive and thrive.

Oracle is continuing to build out what it can offer in the cloud and it's adding artificial intelligence to its Customer Experience cloud.

IBM is opening data centers in Dallas and Washington DC as part of its cloud plans for 2017.

Truman Boyes, head of networking for the Bloomberg office of the CTO, also isn't fond of firewalls or SNMP.

The rise of container technology has pushed virtual machines and hypervisors to the side. However, containers can't solve all your cloud problems. Here's what IT should know.

Kubernetes solves multiple technology problems for the company's private cloud.

Yahoo builds on OpenStack to deliver cloud infrastructure for services utilized by 1 billion users. Here's what the company has learned.

Mostly triumph. But Docker adoption isn't without its bumps, as speakers shared at DockerCon 2017 in Austin.

Cisco Jasper is expanding from IoT and connected cars into mobile management with a new platform called Control Center for Mobile Enterprise.

The answer comes down to five little words.

Stickers, swingsets and sweeeet doughnuts: DockerCon 2017 in Austin was way too much fun.

Pressure from AWS, Microsoft, Google and IBM is starting to push the price of object storage down, creating a new wrinkle in the cloud pricing wars, according to a new report.

The company formerly known as the 'pure-play OpenStack company' now embraces Kubernetes – and a new slogan.

A series of mergers and acquisitions, along with several IPOs, have changed the cloud market in 2017. An Enterprise Cloud News special report helps you make sense of these changes.

New packaged solution uses diverse access, including fixed broadband wireless, along with backup power, diverse routers and transport.

With some 110,000 employees across the globe, Emerson's human resources department has a lot of data to secure. With cloud plans in place, the company believes the technology can offer a secure platform.

Hits the enterprise software vendor on lock-in and portability.

Amazon CTO Werner Vogels unveiled several new developer features for company's public cloud at this week's AWS Summit in San Francisco.

Riverbed is acquiring cloud WiFi provider Xirrus in a deal that will bolster Riverbed's SD-WAN SteelConnect offering.

Docker is showing off a new service that helps businesses move old apps to containers in less than a week.

Oracle has acquired media analytics specialist Moat, which will add new capabilities to the company's Data Cloud offering.

Take our quick survey about the realities of being a woman in the next-gen communications industry. We want to hear your stories, experiences and impressions.

Non-cloud legacy business down, cloud and other 'strategic imperatives' up – same song IBM sings every quarter since it seems like forever.

New Docker projects let developers build their own Linux OS and customize their own container ecosystems.

At Enterprise Cloud News's inaugural webinar, you can find out how the information service made the journey from its own data center to Google Cloud.

The open source cloud platform is losing momentum but is still useful, says Guido Appenzeller, VMware CTO for cloud and networking.

Intel is stopping its funding of the OpenStack Innovation Center project, although Rackspace is vowing to continue developing the technology.

Oracle is looking to strengthen its container and microservices offerings with the acquisition of Wercker, a startup based in Amsterdam.

The exchange operator is carefully tracking progress on open source to fuel massively scalable interconnections of the future.

Resisting the cloud and SaaS took power away from CIOs and IT. Here's how embracing the technology can help get it back.

Cost-cutting vs. business transformation is a false choice. That's where Google comes in – it says.

Bezos advises companies on how to preserve 'Day 1' culture into maturity.

The buzz is all about digital business transformation, but companies need to transform their underlying IT first. Many are falling off pace, according to a new study.

Mark Shuttleworth is returning to CEO of the Canonical, the company he founded, after current CEO Jane Silber announced her resignation. The company is focusing more on IoT and the cloud.

So that's awkward when they bump into each other in the coffee room.

The OS underlying Rancher's container management platform goes GA as a stripped-down Linux distribution with containers in mind.

Managing apps on premises and across multiple public cloud platforms.

At a gathering of Oracle customers, CEO Mark Hurd stuck to his unrelenting message that the company's customers will migrate to its cloud, whether it's now or later.

An update to HPE's IT Operations Management suites looks to offer DevOps teams more services through Docker containers.

Adding metrics monitoring for applications running with microservices in containers, either in the cloud or on-premises.

Windstream Wholesale and Versa Networks are sensing new opportunities for SD-WAN in the reseller space, while VeloCloud kicked off a partner program for SD-WAN security.

Huawei will work with telco partners on cloud services, as well as possibly launching its own public cloud platform.

Enterprises are adopting the hybrid cloud model, but there are different ways to start on this path. Here are five keys to getting off to a successful start.

Chinese equipment giant is on the verge of a dramatic move into the public cloud market as it looks for new growth opportunities.

B2B pickle player picks Plex to optimize its supply chain and manufacturing

Open source provides the store chain with the tools it needs to weather a tough retail environment, a Target VP explains.

Meet the 2017 finalists for Women in Comms' second-annual Leading Lights in the categories of Most Inspiring Woman in Comms and Female Tech Pioneer of the Year.

With the acquisition, Microsoft gets expertise in container management and open source.

The company relies on open source to improve agility in the face of business difficulties.

Enterprise Cloud News caught up with Ty Schmitt, a Dell Fellow and executive director for Extreme Scale Infrastructure with Dell EMC, to find out how the cloud market is changing.

Growth of network consortia with open API frameworks will give rise to programmable peering with end-to-end visibility, Equinix CTO says.

A report from analytics firm Teradata finds that despite security concerns, cloud adoption is moving ahead at most enterprises.

In an update to the Pivotal Foundry Cloud, the company is offering expanded support for Microsoft Windows and .NET applications.

Amazon Web Services is still tops in the public cloud market, but a new survey says its losing some of its luster to Microsoft Azure and Google Public Cloud.

Four months after Microsoft closed its LinkedIn acquisition, the two organizations have decided good fences make good neighbors in the cloud.

Unlike the parrot in the Monty Python sketch, OpenStack is not dead.

In its first large release since the acquisition, AppDynamics is turning its attention to developers and how its technology can make DevOps work in the enterprise.

OVH is a big deal as a global cloud provider, and hopes buying VMware's vCloud Air assets will drive business in the US, where it's relatively unknown.

The latest iteration of Google's SDN architecture looks to boost performance at the edge of the cloud.

Google details technology used to speed up cloud performance at the network edge.

One by one, SDN and network virtualization schemes have adapted to include containers. At ONS yesterday, it was Microsoft Azure's turn.

Salesforce is looking to boost inside sales productivity using its Einstein AI.

Enterprise spending on artificial intelligence and cognitive computing is to increase nearly 60% compared to 2016.

Cisco SVP and GM of cloud collaboration talked about the latest Cisco Spark news at Enterprise Connect 2017.

The US Citizenship and Immigration Services, along with the Justice Department, have issued new warnings for companies looking to use the H-1B visa program to hire foreign workers this year.

HPE completed the spinoff of its Enterprise Services business and merged it with Computer Sciences Corporation to create CDX Technology, while adjusting outlook downward to reflect the change.

After much speculation, Oracle finally threw cold water on the rumors that it was chasing Accenture.

Rackspace is expanding its managed services business to include what it calls professional services for companies investing in multi-cloud infrastructures.

If enterprises move to the cloud, they require less on-premises equipment, which is a problem for Cisco and its competitors. But Cisco has a plan.