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by Nancy Gohring

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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.
Amazon Web Services, OpenStack
Dell dumps its public cloud offerings

Posted May 20, 2013 - 12:16 pm

Dell said it will start offering public cloud services only through partners, dumping its own offerings
cloud computing drivers, Dell
Forrester: Cloud hit from NSA could be more like $180 billion (but probably not even close)

Posted Aug 15, 2013 - 08:00 am

Using the same reasoning behind a recent report that predicted $35 billion in losses for U.S. cloud companies, Forrester said the downside could be closer to $180 billion -- but since the premise is wrong, losses will likely be insignificant.
cloud, security
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
cloud computig, OpenStack
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.
cloud computing, OpenStack
Report: U.S. cloud industry stands to lose $35B in three years due to NSA snooping

Posted Aug 06, 2013 - 03:10 pm

A new report estimates cloud companies could lose billions as overseas companies worry that the U.S. government might spy on their data.
cloud computing, NSA
Amazon Web Services: We’ll go to court to fight gov’t requests for data

Posted Jun 19, 2013 - 01:39 pm

AWS said it will disclose government requests for data to customers and help customers fight such requests
Amazon Web Services, privacy
Another week, another cloud price cut announcement

Posted Jul 31, 2013 - 06:00 am

It isn't only about price
Amazon Web Services, cloud comuting
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.
cloud computing, OpenStack
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.
cloud computing adoption

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