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by Nancy Gohring

Nancy Gohring is a freelance journalist who has been covering tech, including cloud computing and the mobile industry, for more than a decade.

Facebook shakes up switch market with new Open Compute Project

Posted May 08, 2013 - 04:48 pm

The new project will describe a switch that disaggregates the hardware and software. The result could lead to more options and better prices, even for non-Web scale businesses.
Tier 3: Private cloud offering in the works

Posted May 08, 2013 - 09:00 am

Cloud provider Tier 3, this week launching a new reseller program, is working on a private cloud offering
Amazon takes aim at private clouds

Posted Apr 30, 2013 - 02:32 pm

An AWS executive, speaking at the company's summit in San Francisco, was critical of private clouds, saying that they were created by traditional enterprise vendors looking to protect their businesses.
Eucalyptus becomes first private cloud provider to support Netflix tools

Posted Apr 29, 2013 - 06:00 am

With its 3.3 release, Eucalyptus becomes the first private cloud software that allows users to take advantage of tools that Netflix open sourced for managing cloud deployments.
Big data beats mobile and cloud as expected growth driver

Posted Apr 24, 2013 - 02:30 pm

A new KPMG survey shows shifting priorities but also growing concern with long-term worries like security
Next up in public cloud: Tiered SLAs

Posted Apr 23, 2013 - 02:18 pm

Cloud service providers are mulling the idea of offering different levels of SLAs
PayPal dodges VMware question -- again -- but sheds light on OpenStack implementation

Posted Apr 18, 2013 - 02:17 pm

The company didn't clarify recent reports suggesting that it will dump VMware, but it did share some insight into its new OpenStack cloud
Physicists link OpenStack, Nimbus clouds around the world to share resources

Posted Apr 18, 2013 - 12:28 pm

Particle physicists need huge computing resources but for relatively short periods of time. They've already started linking their clouds so they can better share those resources when they aren't being used.
U.S. intelligence agencies embrace OpenStack

Posted Apr 17, 2013 - 01:38 pm

The NSA is already running a production OpenStack cloud and said it's about to share it with all 16 U.S. intelligence agencies
HubSpot latest to leave Amazon Web Services -- mostly. Should Amazon worry?

Posted Apr 17, 2013 - 09:00 am

HubSpot announced at the OpenStack Summit that it built a private OpenStack cloud to take over some work it was running on Amazon Web Services

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