The worldwide IaaS market grew 29.5 percent in 2017 to total $23.5 billion, up from $18.2 billion in 2016, according to Gartner.

The company also scored a $140 million digital banking deal with Thai bank Krungsri.

The contract could be worth $10 billion over 10 years. But Congress has expressed some concern over the size and duration of the deal.

The computing giant touted cloud as driving its latest revenue surge, and it has set a high bar for its rivals to match.

Sift’s product, Cloud Hunter, uses machine learning, analytics, and graph visualization capabilities to detect and respond to threats across infrastructure-as-a-service platforms.

Dell Technologies’ venture arm invests about $100 million annually in technology startups, and about a quarter of that goes to security companies.

The trial used a Voyager device running a network operating system from Cumulus Networks, Zeetta Networks’ NetOS Software Defined Network orchestration, and architecture help from ADVA.

The operators plan to release the results of the RFI and a shortlist of potential vendors at the TIP Summit in October in London.

The cloud provider’s global network includes 16 regions across 12 countries. It plans to launch additional regions in Zurich, Hong Kong, and Osaka, Japan in the future.

While Microsoft’s growth continues to surge, AWS remains the prominent cloud provider in the public IaaS and PaaS market segments.

The performance monitoring company deployed cloud vantage points into every region of the top three cloud providers: Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud Platform.

The managed hybrid cloud service initially supports Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, and Azure Stack.

Verizon debuts software-defined secure branch; Microsoft takes data centers underwater; and T-Mobile, Nokia complete 5G data session.

In 2017 Amazon led the IaaS market with 41 percent of revenue, while Microsoft topped the list for PaaS with 26 percent of revenue, according to IHS Markit.

The managed security service provider tested Netskope’s and McAfee Skyhigh’s technology before choosing Bitglass.

The data center giant also added private, direct connections to Microsoft Azure cloud services in Miami and Paris.

The company acquired the software when it scooped up SEIM vendor Viewtrust in 2014.

The ODTN project has some overlap with OpenConfig and TIP, but differs from the AT&T-led OpenROADM project.

The operator’s latest open source project named OnLife tackles multi-access edge computing and other 5G use cases, using CORD-like software.

The organization plans to focus on Kubernetes, Istio, and Envoy this year, but is not about chasing a shiny ball.

The integration provides Cloud Foundry with access to the world's No. 3 cloud provider and China-based enterprises.

These three initiatives are all focused on virtualizing the RAN, and some of the same companies belong to all three groups. But why are there three?

Intel debuts cloud-ready mainframes; Telefónica completes 5G automated car demo; Sprint and T-Mobile renew merger talks.

McAfee opened new security operations centers in Plano, Texas, and Cork, Ireland. Also today Netskope expanded its cloud security platform to include web access.