Thursday, February 1st, 2018

Time	Event
12:28a	Microsoft's Sales Get Azure Boost; Tax Charge Leads to Net Loss (FB) Microsoft Corp. topped analysts’ estimates for second-quarter revenue, helped by brisk quarterly growth in its cloud and corporate-software businesses, while a tax charge caused the company to report a net loss. The software maker said it had a $13.8 billion charge related to taxes owed on overseas cash, a result of recent changes to U.S. tax law. Sales of Azure cloud-computing services almost doubled as businesses increasingly seek to run applications and store data in Microsoft’s data centers. (Comment on this)
12:30a	Google to Create a Cloud App Marketplace, Chasing Amazon (FB) Alphabet Inc.’s Google is launching a digital store offering cloud-based software to companies and other organizations, its latest effort to catch cloud leaders like Amazon Web Services. Google Cloud and MobileIron Inc., which offers a cybersecurity tool for cellphones, are partnering on a new online marketplace that will allow businesses to buy cloud services and distribute them to employees, while keeping corporate data secure. The platform which customers will be able to access through mobile telecom providers, may roll out in the second half of the year. (Comment on this)
12:33a	Data Center Construction Ramping Up in Chicago Area (FB) Tight supply-high demand has been a running theme in top US data center markets in recent years. Supply has been especially tight in Chicago, but that’s about to change. Numerous new construction projects kicked off last year, and January saw news of several more that are in the works. New developments that came to light this month include the announcement by Dallas-based Stream Data Centers of a project to construct a 15MW data center in Elk Grove Village, a Chicago suburb with the highest concentration of data centers. Additionally, Brennan Investment Group, a real estate company based in the area, announced last week that it has bought a sprawling piece of land where it plans to develop the future Elk Grove Technology Park, expecting a large portion of the park to be taken up by data centers. RagingWire recently acquired a 19-acre site in neighboring Itasca, the property’s seller told Crain’s Chicago Business. (Comment on this)
12:36a	Kaminario Releases First Product Since Going All-Software (FB) This week we got a look at what the new software-driven Kaminario will look like, with the announcement of Kaminario Cloud Fabric. It is a repositioning of Kaminario's existing software stack to make it attractive to the cloud service providers Kaminario is seeking to court. In essence, it's the same software used to power K2: the VisionOS software operating platform and Clarity. Later this year, Flex will be added. A couple of weeks ago, the all-flash storage company said it was quitting the hardware business to become a software company. (Comment on this)
1:05p	Don't Expect Big Security Improvements After Cisco's Skyport Deal Acquisition’s main purpose is brainpower; Skyport appliance will sunset (Comment on this)
1:05p	Don't Expect Big Security Improvements After Cisco's Skyport Deal Acquisition’s main purpose is brainpower; Skyport appliance will sunset (Comment on this)
1:05p	Cisco Beefs Up Hyper-Converged Security Engineering Muscle With Skyport Deal Acquisition’s main purpose is brainpower; Skyport appliance will sunset (Comment on this)
6:31p	Exclusive: Vantage’s Goldsmith and Server Farm’s Manos Join RagingWire Major hires substantially beef up RagingWire’s sales leadership team (Comment on this)

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