All eyes are on New York, where along with a massive incoming storm, Uber is rolling out its emergency surge pricing cap. On Monday, there was a flurry of coverage by media outlets from Bloomberg… Read more »
Traditional methods of transferring data are no longer sufficient. So IT managers and directors must find alternative solutions and establish new best practices. Read more »
Datto is buying Backupify so it can offer a full range of data recovery services, regardless of where that data sits. Both companies deal with data backup and recovery, but Backupify’s strength,… Read more »
Strategic cloud buyers look for opportunities to use cloud across the enterprise in the next 12 to 24 months. They are not merely targeted or opportunistic users, drawn toward one specific cloud application. Read more »
Continuing its cloud-related shopping spree, CenturyLink is buying DataGardens for its disaster recovery expertise. (Or, if you’re fond of awful acronyms, you can call it DRaaS for Disaster Recovery as a… Read more »
It’s been quite the week for Mohamad Ali. HP’s former Chief Strategy Officer was named CEO of Carbonite on Thursday, the day after Carbonite received an unsolicited $366.4 million bid from J2… Read more »
Both mainstream and leading-edge users are moving their web presence to cloud-based solutions. Mainstream users are migrating more IT services, and doing more data center consolidation. Read more »
Amazon Web Services offers lots of IT infrastructure options, even some application level services, but has gaps to fill in its platform. Here are some areas that targeted acquisitions could address. Read more »
By purchasing the business continuity company, Microsoft can merge InMage’s data recovery technology into its own Azure Site Recovery service that allows for folks to migrate on-premise data to the Azure… Read more »
Gigaom got a tour of AT&T’s disaster recovery drill in Chicago, an exercise in restoring communications in the unlikely event that an entire core network goes down. Read more »