“Public cloud is much more expensive, more so than you can ever expect,” Tan said.

The co-developed solution simplifies enterprise adoption of generative artificial intelligence.

Microsoft launched licensing benefits and discounts to help VMware users migrate and run workloads on its Azure VMware Solutions service.

With that outcome potentially weeks away, the question could be whether VMware's business as usual remains a model for the vendor going forward.

According to Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG), 60% of companies have repatriated some workloads from the cloud back on-premises.

The colocation provider's ecosystem provides access to thousands of enterprises, networks, hyperscalers, carriers and other partners.

The telecom industry is in transition as it embraces cloud adoption, contends with an explosion of data and network and capability demands from consumers and businesses.

The multi-vendor project relied heavily on open standards and interfaces to simplify network management.

Many enterprises are using this model to better manage data sovereignty laws that require them to maintain strict control over their data.

The carrier will use Casa Systems’ platform to deploy a 5G core or mobile edge computing systems onto just about any infrastructure environment.

“The North Star here is within a decade that we will be 100% on public cloud,” Wells Fargo's head of hybrid environments Christopher Marsh-Bourdon said.

Soon it will be difficult to tell where one cloud begins and another one ends.

Not everything has to be hyperscale. IT departments are looking at different models of modeling to the cloud, using NFV technology and microservices for different levels of scale.

Big technology shifts like cloud take at least 10 years. That’s why the shift to the telco cloud, led by NFV, will require at least a decade of patience.

Network virtualization and SDN technology can add to network security by enabling a secure DMZ in the data center.

While telecommunications carriers are no doubt at the forefront of NFV, it turns out that more traditional enterprise IT organizations are not very far behind.

Cloud security company Zscaler Inc. is the latest to join the "Unicorn" club -- private venture-backed companies with valuations of $1 billion or better -- with a $100 million

Amazon and Microsoft's Azure are the clear leaders in offering cloud services to enterprises, according to the results of a customer survey released by investment bank Cowen and Company.

The race to provide efficient and secure access to cloud apps continues. Google has approved Global Capacity as a Google Cloud Interconnect provider, expanding the number of operators that

Networking is on the verge of big changes in Palo Alto Networks' favor, co-founder Nir Zuk says in this discussion about firewall virtualization, cloud security, and the future of

Hybrid clouds sound warm and cuddly, and apparently everybody wants them. But rigging up a hybrid cloud -- which connects disaparate public and private cloud resources -- is harder

Cisco announced a deal to buy Metacloud yesterday, affirming two big trends in cloud computing: 1) Private cloud and 2) OpenStack.

Big telecom players are once again eyeing data-center acquisitions. Word on the street -- or at least on Bloomberg -- is that CenturyLink (CTL) is looking to acquire Rackspace

Hewlett-Packard's strong cash flow provides the ammunition for it to go out and make some high-profile tech acquisitions other than the much-speculated Rackspace, according to a new report from