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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.

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
Amazon Web Services, data center
Big data: what’s it good for?

Posted Sep 25, 2013 - 06:00 am

A couple of new surveys indicate that while businesses are moving full steam ahead toward big data, they don't have a firm grasp on what it can do for them.
big data, mainframe
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.
Cloud servers are bright spot in otherwise dark server market

Posted Aug 28, 2013 - 02:15 pm

Analyst reports show that the shift to the kinds of servers used by huge web properties and cloud service providers is underway
IDC, Servers
Cloudscaling's Randy Bias: The time for OpenStack to embrace Amazon is now

Posted Jul 24, 2013 - 11:24 am

Randy Bias has long argued that OpenStack should fully support Amazon Web Services' APIs but says there's a new urgency to the matter.
cloud computing, OpenStack
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
Amazon Web Services, cloud computing
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
cloud computing, system integrators
ENovance the latest cloud managed services company to get funding

Posted Jul 10, 2013 - 02:24 pm

ENovance, which will use any public cloud that suits, is the seventh largest contributor to OpenStack
eNovance, OpenStack
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
cloud, OpenStack
How to build a better cloud: do like the big commercial players

Posted Aug 21, 2013 - 02:12 pm

Forrester recommends ways that enterprises can build their clouds like the service providers in order to boost efficiencies.
cloud computing, Forrester

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Unified Communications Month

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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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