A pair of massive service outages involving two of the largest cloud players this month comes at a time when the industry is arguably on the verge of eradicating any lingering concerns about the security or reliability of public cloud.
Officials at MSP Stronghold Data say trust and deep customer ties are key to weathering the acquisition of its cybersecurity vendor for the second time in four years.
High-performance solid state storage, software-defined infrastructure and disaster-recovery-as-a-service have been the highlights of VMworld 2016 vendor announcements so far.
As part of its strategy to pivot toward cloud technologies, Cisco has pursued a slew of acquisitions in the last year. Its latest buy gives it a toehold in the emerging container market.