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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.

AWS East might get more reliable, if reports of new data center pan out

Posted Jan 15, 2013 - 08:22 pm

Reports say that Amazon is working on new data centers in Virginia to shore up its outage-prone East region
Cloud analytics market heats up with launches this week

Posted Nov 16, 2012 - 02:19 pm

Newvem this week announced that its AWS usage analytics service is now available to anyone.
Cloudyn points out AWS billing surprise

Posted Jan 22, 2013 - 08:23 pm

AWS bills for a certain type of reserved instance in advance, which can make it challenging for customers to track spending spikes
Does Cloud Sherpas' cash infusion mean cloud is too complicated?

Posted Dec 21, 2012 - 01:02 pm

Cloud Sherpas received $40 million in funding to help grow its business that helps companies implement and integrate Google Apps and Salesforce
How many is too many public OpenStack cloud services?

Posted Mar 07, 2013 - 10:00 am

There's enough competition on the horizon that I predict soon enough we'll be wondering if there's too much competition
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- cloud, OpenStack
New OpenStack initiative could address interoperability questions

Posted Apr 10, 2013 - 04:00 pm

There is some debate over which OpenStack clouds are truly interoperable, but a new project could help clear up differences
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
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- OpenStack, paypal
Rackspace changes course, won't support third-party OpenStack distributions as part of private cloud offering

Posted Feb 01, 2013 - 12:30 pm

Last year Rackspace said it would support OpenStack distributions from other providers as part of its private cloud offering. Now it says times have changed and it'll stick with its own OpenStack distribution instead.
See how well cloud apps are working for your peers

Posted Nov 26, 2012 - 07:19 pm

Ever wish you could find out if your application is running in the cloud as efficiently as those your peers are running?
A new feature added today by Boundary -- which neglected to mention it in a press release announcing other new capabilities -- could let you do just that.
SkyTap invites users to dip a toe into big data

Posted Jan 16, 2013 - 10:00 am

Customers can try out a 50-node Cloudera Hadoop cluster for free

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