Oracle has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Opower, a company that provides cloud services to utilities. The transaction is valued at approximately $532 million. Opower's...

Amazon has reached an agreement to acquire Elemental Technologies, a company that provides software-defined video solutions for multiscreen content delivery.  Terms of the acquisition were not...

IBM is opening its first cloud center in Mexico, located in Querétaro, near Mexico City. The Mexico City cloud center follows SoftLayer's standardized pod design, and has the...

IBM is opening a cloud data center with SoftLayer in Frankfurt, Germany. The Frankfurt facility will be part of SoftLayer's global network, and offers 10Gbps connections to SoftLayer services, with only 7 milliseconds of latency from SoftLayer's Amsterdam facility and less than 330 milliseconds of latency from other SoftLayer cloud data centers around the world.

IBM is opening its first cloud data center with SoftLayer in Japan, located in Tokyo. The company had previously announced SoftLayer cloud data center launches in Melbourne...