Microsoft today announced a technical preview of Azure Stack – a product meant to be an on-premises equivalent to the company's IaaS public cloud. Why is this a big deal? Because Amazon Web Services and Google Cloud Platform don’t have anything like it.| Network World
VMware and IBM today announced a broad new partnership that will allow VMware customers to extend their virtualized workloads into IBM’s public SoftLayer cloud, a move that could be a boost of adrenaline for IBM and marks somewhat of a reckoning for VMware’s public cloud plans.| Network World