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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.

Some AWS partnerships -- like with Oracle and Microsoft -- are just about to get awkward

Posted Nov 20, 2012 - 08:26 pm

A look at some of the presentations scheduled for Amazon's first AWS conference next week made me think about shifting alliances and how Amazon might now just be starting to worry about new competition on the horizon.
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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 takes aim at private clouds

Posted Apr 30, 2013 - 02:32 pm

An AWS executive, speaking at the company's summit in San Francisco, was critical of private clouds, saying that they were created by traditional enterprise vendors looking to protect their businesses.
AWS rolls out automation feature -- should vendors be worried?

Posted Jan 09, 2013 - 03:21 pm

AWS is now letting customers set rules that will automatically shut down instances that go unused, for example.
Big data beats mobile and cloud as expected growth driver

Posted Apr 24, 2013 - 02:30 pm

A new KPMG survey shows shifting priorities but also growing concern with long-term worries like security
Building an internal cloud? Forget HP and Dell, think Quanta

Posted Mar 13, 2013 - 10:47 am

Quanta has quickly shifted its business away from an ODM model to selling direct to cloud service providers. It plans to target enterprises next.
Cloudyn tackles out-of-control AWS cloud storage spending

Posted Feb 06, 2013 - 10:00 am

Cloudyn is offering some new features aimed at giving customers better insight into their AWS storage usage so that they can cut costs.
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Comcast, Best Buy take the wraps off OpenStack implementations

Posted Apr 16, 2013 - 04:58 pm

Comcast and Best Buy are talking about their OpenStack implementations for the first time.
Compute price bottom may be in sight

Posted Mar 27, 2013 - 08:00 am

New data collected by RightScale shows that it's possible margins are slim enough in compute services that future cuts may be harder to come by
Dell's public cloud -- initially scheduled to launch this year -- will run on OpenStack

Posted Dec 13, 2012 - 06:28 pm

Dell snuck a bit of news into a wide ranging press release this week and perhaps according to plan it has largely been ignored.

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