Veritas Technologies, the leader in information management, today announced support for Google Cloud Platform with its market leading NetBackup 7.7 and Backup Exec 15 solutions. Organizations can use the Google public cloud as a backup destination, run back up and perform disaster recovery to or from the Google Cloud Platform. With this support, Veritas is delivering needed visibility and control for hybrid cloud environments.

“Our Hybrid Cloud research shows that 31 percent of organizations are already looking to the cloud for their backup and recovery workload, and that percentage will grow even more in the future,” stated Ben Gibson, Veritas CMO. “Integrating our market leading NetBackup and Backup Exec solutions with Google Cloud Platform gives organizations the ability to confidently and securely do this today.”

"Cloud Cruiser has collaborated with Microsoft since 2012, delivering cloud analytics solutions to enterprises and service providers utilizing Microsoft Azure Public Cloud, Windows Pack and System Center," said Paul Tilston, vice president of sales and alliances, Cloud Cruiser. "This Azure Marketplace offering for all Azure EA accounts helps track consumption with confidence and gives fast insights into usage and costs, better enabling customers to deliver the right services at the right time.  We believe this is a must-have capability as you move more workloads to Azure," added Tilston.

Grazed from Forbes. Author: Robert Hof.

When Google scored a $400 million to $600 million deal to supply cloud services to Apple last week, according to multiple reports, it was widely viewed as a coup for the search giant’s cloud business. And why not? Apple, which has been relying mainly on Amazon Web Services as well as Microsofts Azure to run part of its iCloud and other services, is a marquee reference customer.

It will get Google in the door of just about every big company–and, not incidentally, throw a little shade on its rivals. But the big win obscures a stark reality for Google’s Cloud Platform: At just $500 million in revenues according to Morgan Stanley estimates, it trails far behind AWS’s $7.9 billion reported revenues in 2015, and it’s even a distant third behind Azure’s $1.1 billion in estimated sales…

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Grazed from ComputerWorld. Author: Blair Hanley Frank.

When Google executives take the stage Wednesday at the company’s conference for customers of its cloud platform, they’re going to have quite a task in front of them. While the company’s cloud is the choice for some household names like Best Buy and Spotify, it hasn’t seen the same adoption as competing offerings from providers like Microsoft and Amazon Web Services.

These vendors are the market leaders in the public cloud race, with Amazon holding a dominant share of the overall market. That comes at the same time many developers are enamored with Google’s technical chops, along with some of the technical capabilities of its platform. Gartner Vice President Lydia Leong said that Google has always had a lot of promise as a public cloud provider, but just hasn’t lived up to it…

Grazed from MarketWatch. Author: Wallace Witkowski.

As expected growth in corporate tech budgets shrinks, capital investment priorities are sharpening with an increased focus on network security and cloud adoption, and that’s good news for some tech companies like Apple Inc. and Microsoft Corp., while bad news for others, like Cisco Systems Inc.

Corporate tech budgets are expected to grow by 1.2% in 2016, down from an earlier estimate of 3.1% in October, according to a survey of 50 chief investment officers by Nomura Securities. In 2017, those same CIOs expect growth of 2.3%, for now. Where that money will be spent matters to tech companies…

Grazed from Forbes. Author: JanaKiram.

The rise of mobile and IoT applications is fueling the growth of serverless computing platforms. This new paradigm is based on the microservices architecture, which is revolutionizing software development and deployment. Serverless computing frameworks, when triggered by external events, invoke autonomous code snippets. These snippets are loosely coupled with each other that are essentially designed to perform one task at a time.

Serverless frameworks are responsible for orchestrating the code snippets at runtime. Think of it as an extensible, developer-friendly, IFTTT service in the cloud. This emerging cloud computing service delivery model offers many advantages to developers and administrators. It finds a middle-ground between IaaS and PaaS by offering the right level of flexibility and control…

This new platform will allow CloudMe to easily add features, provide a unified user experience and improve its service with the ability to handle tens of thousands of files simultaneously. This feature will be especially useful for businesses with large document archives or users syncing multiple photos from their mobile camera.

Complexity remains a major barrier to adoption for Big Data technologies like Hadoop and Spark. BlueData’s software innovations make it easy to deploy Big Data infrastructure and applications, leveraging Docker containers to provide a self-service BDaaS experience on-premises together with the highest levels of security and performance for Big Data analytics in the enterprise.

Microsoft Azure is the leading cloud computing platform for modern businesses, and its marketplace offers a growing collection of integrated cloud apps and services. Eighty percent of the Fortune 500 is already on the Microsoft Cloud and 1,000 new customers sign up for Azure every day. The Azure Marketplace serves as an online store for thousands of certified, open source, and community software applications, developer services, and data, all pre-configured for Azure.