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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.

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.
Amazon Cloud Player, Amazon Web Services
AWS mobile notification service – bummer news for BaaS crowd

Posted Aug 13, 2013 - 02:30 pm

Amazon's new mobile notification service competes with the kind of offering many of the backend-as-a-service providers built their businesses on.
Amazon Web Services, BaaS
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.
Amazon AWS, cloud automation
Azure steps up its game with per-minute billing

Posted Jun 03, 2013 - 02:40 pm

Microsoft joins Google Compute Engine in offering per-minute billing. Will Amazon follow?
Azure, cloud computing
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
cloud computing, KPMG
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.
cloud servers, Quanta
CloudSigma tries to stand out with new hybrid services

Posted Sep 18, 2013 - 07:00 am

It's offering private lines for customers between public and private clouds
CloudSigma, hybrid cloud
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.
AWS, Cloudyn
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.
cloud computing, OpenStack
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
cloud computing, RightScale

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