Zone & Co

cloudcomputing | May 29, 2018

Google has clambered into the leaders’ section of Gartner’s latest infrastructure as a service (IaaS) Magic Quadrant, while the wheat has been separated from the chaff. The annual report concluded that the cloud IaaS market is now a three-horse race in the top right box, with the leaders’ zone not being an Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft-only area for the first time since 2013.Indeed, Gartner hacked away many of the fringe players for the latest Quadrant. Only six compa...

Cloud App Development, Cloud App Management, Cloud Deployment Models

Zenoss | March 16, 2023

On March 15, 2023, Zenoss, a company that specializes in intelligent applications and service monitoring, announced the launch of an Oceania Zenoss Cloud zone. Because of this new zone, all Zenoss Cloud services based in the United States and Europe will now be available via a dedicated instance in Sydney, Australia. The choice of Sydney as the location for this zone was based on the region's high data protection standards. In fact, the Hosting Certification Framework (HCF) of the Aust...

sdxcentral.com | January 23, 2020

Arista Networks bought SDN vendor Big Switch Networks, according to sources familiar with the deal.The purchase is Arista’s largest acquisition to date, according to a source. It’s also the networking vendor’s third acquisition Arista in 2018 snapped up cloud-managed WiFi firm Mojo Networks and then a month later bought Metamako, a provider of low-latency field programmable gate array (FPGA) products.While Arista ultimately won, Big Switch had a long list of suitors that wanted...

bloomberg.com | January 21, 2020

Google signed a 10-year deal with travel-software provider Sabre Corp., a key win for the search giant in the competitive cloud-computing market.Sabre will pay Google to handle parts of its information-technology system and for data-analytics tools. Additionally, the companies agreed to collaborate on online travel services, a sign of Google leaning on its massive consumer business to lure enterprise clients.Sabre and Alphabet Inc.’s Google announced the partnership on Tuesday as a “...