Carl Brooks is an Analyst for 451 Research's Cloud Transformation Channel, covering service providers, cloud platforms and supply chain/channel for cloud. Previously, he spent several years researching and reporting on the emerging cloud market for TechTarget. Carl has also spent more than 10 years supporting small and medium-sized businesses with outsourced IT services as an IT consultant and network and systems administrator.
He specialized in server and desktop operations, Linux and Microsoft products, and security, and has thorough knowledge of hardware platforms and networking technologies, as well as significant experience working with the channel market.
Carl holds BA degrees in English and history from the University of Massachusetts-Boston, and currently holds both IBM and AWS certifications in cloud infrastructure.
On the back of double-digit growth and a surge in subscription and SaaS revenue, VMware has continued to take its software to where the customers are. The company is looking for robust growth of forward-leaning technology, and has begun to round out its portfolio well beyond virtualization and infrastructure management.
As the company name and website address suggest, Reserved.ai is a tool for buying and managing Amazon Web Services Reserved Instances with automation and a healthy dose of machine learning. It will to be interesting to watch its impact.
Big Blue unveiled the initial class of ecosystem partners for the IBM Financial Services-ready Public Cloud, introduced in November 2019, underscoring the vendor's commitment to enterprise-grade clouds, and its ambition to facilitate industry transformation.
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure has notched another significant win for its platform and cloud infrastructure services. Unified communications services provider 8x8 has signed on to have Oracle host its video calls and collaboration services, moving from Amazon Web Services to Oracle Cloud.
Network operators opened up about why the internet didn't break when the world moved online due to the coronavirus pandemic, with a surge in traffic that was both sharp and widely reported. We look at how this was one of the brighter aspects of the current crisis.
A differentiating characteristic of IBM Cloud Satellite is its hardware-agnostic approach " it allows on-prem 'locations' to be deployed on a range of hardware configurations, including existing customer equipment. It is expected to be available later this year.
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