Big 3 Cloud Firms – AWS, Azure, Google – Have Most Data Centers. For Now

A lot of under-the-radar cloud computing news to report this week. Have you seen how much data center capacity the “Big 3” public cloud providers – Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud – have? But that supremacy could soon be challenged by China’s hyperscalers.

Also, IBM Cloud launched a new platform this week for cloud security. Of interest is that the service works not just with the Big 3 environments, but others as well. Most importantly, IBM designed the technology to help organizations get a better handle on their governance and compliance — vital aspects for channel partners to understand.

And did you hear? Intel is buying a cloud startup out of Israel. It’s not a competitor to the Big 3 by any means yet it should help users rein in the costs associated with those cloud environments.

Finally, Unstoppable Domains, the startup that landed former AWS public sector exec Sandy Carter, has hired some gents from a couple of huge names.

Find out more in this week’s cloud news roundup slideshow, above.