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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.

It's true, Rackspace and Red Hat dominate OpenStack contributions

Posted Jun 26, 2013 - 09:00 am

A new data visualization tool makes it easy to see who is contributing to OpenStack
cloud, OpenStack
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
cloud computing, Terremark
Microsoft’s one million servers: what it means

Posted Jul 18, 2013 - 12:13 pm

Microsoft's Steve Ballmer recently disclosed that the company has one million servers in its data centers. Turns out, that metric -- kept a secret by some of the big Web companies -- doesn't really tell us a lot.
data center, Microsoft
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
cloud computing, SLA
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.
OpenStack, Rackspace
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.
Amazon Web Services, cloud computing
451 Research survey: Microsoft tops 'exciting' cloud vendor list

Posted Sep 04, 2013 - 06:00 am

A new 451 Research survey showed Microsoft beat out VMware, Amazon and others as the cloud vendor that IT pros are most excited about.
cloud, Microsoft
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
Amazon Web Services, cloud computing
Amazon’s CIA cloud renews questions around what is a private cloud

Posted Aug 08, 2013 - 03:01 pm

Would the CIA cloud be a private cloud or not?
Amazon Web Services, cia
As standalone businesses, PaaS providers aren't cutting it

Posted Dec 19, 2012 - 02:18 pm

A recent Forrester survey about cloud usage reveals no surprise about the number one cloud for developers: Amazon Web Services, by a wide margin. Of the 106 developers surveyed, 71 percent said they'd used AWS to build custom apps.
cloud computing, paas

October is...
Unified Communications Month

BY THE NUMBERS: UC&C

HOW-TO: Look alive and professional in Web meetings

TIP: Use your cell phone as a WiFi VOIP phone

TOOLBOX: Six alternative tools for small business collaboration

CASE STUDY: Enterprise social network moves ad agency into the future

Microsoft's Security Essentials isn't the best antivirus program, according to Microsoft

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AMD pushes forward with new video cards and a few surprises

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Change Microsoft Office 2013's default search engine from Bing to Google

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See - and hear - what it was like to surf the web 20 years ago

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Valve completes its trifecta of announcements with the Steam Controller

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