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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.

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.
Skytap, VPN
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.
AWS, SLA
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
backend as a service, cloud computing
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.
Amazon Web Services, cloud computing
Terremark report shows public cloud users are getting more efficient

Posted Aug 29, 2013 - 01:57 pm

The report offers a few stats about usage growth at Terremark over the past year and a half.
public cloud, Verizon
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
cloud computing, private cloud
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
cloud computing, OpenStack
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
cloud computing, OpenStack
Verizon brings cloud offering into self-service era

Posted Oct 03, 2013 - 10:30 am

Verizon is launching compute and storage cloud offerings that will let users sign up online
cloud, Verizon

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