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News and analysis about trends and hot topics in the cloud, with a particular focus on platform-as-a-service, infrastructure-as-a-service and hybrid models.

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.

Piston CTO: 'Giant explosion of businesses moving off AWS'

Posted Apr 09, 2013 - 06:00 am

Piston co-founder Josh McKenty said businesses are fleeing AWS and while some surely are leaving, 'giant explosion' is surely an overstatement.
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
OpenStack to start cracking down on incompatible clouds

Posted Apr 09, 2013 - 07:18 pm

The OpenStack Foundation is starting to get serious about making sure that cloud services are truly interoperable if they want to call their services OpenStack.
Dell to wait for OpenStack to mature, will launch public cloud late next year

Posted Jan 03, 2013 - 10:00 am

A Dell executive said that OpenStack isn't quite there yet and so the company expects to launch its public cloud based on the platform late next year.
FatFractal CEO: Enterprise mobile apps don't need to be so crappy

Posted Dec 26, 2012 - 10:00 am

IT needs a mindshift and should allow new tools like BaaS that would let most anyone in an organization build mobile apps, FatFractal's CEO said.
It’s the network, stupid

Posted Mar 28, 2013 - 09:00 am

Cloud service providers that also own the network will have a distinct advantage over competitors
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
Rackspace CTO: Gartner is missing the point about OpenStack

Posted Dec 05, 2012 - 11:55 am

Update: Lydia Leong, the Gartner analyst who wrote the report about OpenStack, refuted some of Engates comments. Via Twitter, she said that Gartner's clients aren't only enterprises, but include tech companies of all sizes, even start-ups.
Top cloud news of the week

Posted Mar 08, 2013 - 01:22 pm

Amazon cuts more prices, Cloud Foundry lives, IBM still backs OpenStack, eBay measures data center pay-off, and more.
A cloud for spooks makes sense, but from Amazon?

Posted Mar 20, 2013 - 08:00 am

Amazon is reportedly building a private cloud for the CIA, indicating that the provider of the largest IaaS cloud is ready for the enterprise

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