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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.

Facebook shakes up switch market with new Open Compute Project

Posted May 08, 2013 - 04:48 pm

The new project will describe a switch that disaggregates the hardware and software. The result could lead to more options and better prices, even for non-Web scale businesses.
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
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
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.
HubSpot latest to leave Amazon Web Services -- mostly. Should Amazon worry?

Posted Apr 17, 2013 - 09:00 am

HubSpot announced at the OpenStack Summit that it built a private OpenStack cloud to take over some work it was running on Amazon Web Services
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
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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It’s the network, stupid

Posted Mar 28, 2013 - 09:00 am

Cloud service providers that also own the network will have a distinct advantage over competitors
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
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.

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