7 Cloud Must-Reads Of The Week, May 22
Every Friday Talkin' Cloud rounds up the top cloud computing stories of the week for our online community of channel partners. Did we forget to include one of your favorite articles from the week? Send an email to Talkin' Cloud Executive Editor CJ Arlotta at cj.arlotta [at] penton.com to let him know. If he doesn't get back to you right away, bother him some more — and more.
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7 Cloud Must-Reads of the Week, May 22
Every Friday Talkin' Cloud rounds up the top cloud computing stories of the week for our online community of channel partners. Did we forget to include one of your favorite articles from the week? Send an email to Talkin' Cloud Executive Editor CJ Arlotta at cj.arlotta [at] penton.com to let him know. If he doesn't get back to you right away, bother him some more — and more.
Top 10 Cloud Services Providers (CSPs) In The Mid-Atlantic
Which Talkin' Cloud 100 honorees call the Mid-Atlantic home? Here's a closer look at the top 10 Talkin' Cloud 100 companies from the Mid-Atlantic region of the United States.
Gartner Report: Mitel, Cisco Top UC Magic Quadrant
Mitel (MITL), Cisco Systems (CSCO), Avaya and ShoreTel (SHOR) topped Gartner's new Magic Quadrant for Unified Communications (UC) for Midsize Enterprises, North America. Each of these UC services providers was named a Magic Quadrant Leader, Gartner said, which indicates that its UC portfolio is "specifically positioned with features and functionality to meet the needs of midsize businesses."
Applying Big Data Analytics To IaaS
To give IT organizations more visibility into those dormant virtual machines iLand, a provider of infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) offering based on VMware (VMW), has updated its Enterprise Cloud Services (ECS) portal to expose a raft of big data analytics that help customers optimize usage of the iLand cloud.
Gartner Names AWS, Microsoft As Leaders In IaaS Market
Industry analyst Gartner has named Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft Azure (MSFT) as the top infrastructure-as-a-service platforms of 2015, with both companies ranking highly in the leadership quadrant of the company's Magic Quadrant system. Both Amazon (AMZN) and Microsoft (MSFT) were the only two IaaS providers to achieve leadership status this year, beating out 13 other service providers worldwide.
Study: Confusion And Doubt Prevalent Among Cloud Adoptees
If you're still mystified by the concept of cloud technology, you’re not alone; a new study from West IP Communications revealed that many businesses are divided on the inherent benefits and risks associated with the cloud, especially when it comes to telecom solutions like unified communications.
Rise Of The OpenStack Federation
At the OpenStack Summit 2015 conference this week, the folks that run the OpenStack Foundation consortium made plain its global ambitions for OpenStack clouds.
Big Data Integration Made Simpler
Under the heading of turning lemons into lemonade, Xplenty has reinvented itself as a provider of data integration services delivered via the cloud that don't require any programming expertise. Xplenty founder and CEO Yaniv Mor originally created the Xplenty solution to provide the market with a platform for running Hadoop in the cloud.
Big Data Integration Made Simpler
Under the heading of turning lemons into lemonade, Xplenty has reinvented itself as a provider of data integration services delivered via the cloud that don't require any programming expertise. Xplenty founder and CEO Yaniv Mor originally created the Xplenty solution to provide the market with a platform for running Hadoop in the cloud.
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