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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.

Salesforce exec.: 'Cloud first' should come before 'mobile first'

Posted Mar 14, 2013 - 11:38 am

Salesforce marketing and UX chief Kendall Collins talks about the nuances of going 'mobile first'
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Skytap's strategy: Get into the enterprise through test and dev

Posted Nov 15, 2012 - 05:55 pm

It's a noisy market out there for cloud services, with more service providers starting up than the market can handle. This week, Skytap rolled out a couple of new features that makes clear its strategy for getting a foothold in the competitive market.
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SLAs from HP and AWS shouldn't make you feel particularly confident

Posted Dec 06, 2012 - 05:41 pm

If Gartner's Lydia Leong is right, Amazon and HP have little confidence in the reliability of their own cloud services.
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StackMob goes after enterprise customers with new marketplace

Posted Feb 19, 2013 - 02:00 pm

StackMob is among a handful of backend-as-a-service providers hoping to appeal to enterprises
Sure, Amazon should be worried about private clouds, but it can't continue to ignore IaaS competitors

Posted Nov 28, 2012 - 05:38 pm

During the opening keynote for Amazon Web Services inaugural developer conference, Andy Jassy, senior vice president for AWS, spent a surprising amount of time addressing the enterprise market.
Tier 3: Private cloud offering in the works

Posted May 08, 2013 - 09:00 am

Cloud provider Tier 3, this week launching a new reseller program, is working on a private cloud offering
Turns out, there already is a cloud for spooks

Posted Apr 01, 2013 - 03:26 pm

The NSA revealed it is running an OpenStack cloud
U.S. intelligence agencies embrace OpenStack

Posted Apr 17, 2013 - 01:38 pm

The NSA is already running a production OpenStack cloud and said it's about to share it with all 16 U.S. intelligence agencies

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