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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

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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.

Newvem joins competitors, offers free tier

Posted Feb 19, 2013 - 03:54 pm

Newvem is offering some free data about customer AWS usage in hopes of breaking into the small and medium size business market
cloud computing, Newvem
Mirantis deals point to complexity behind deploying OpenStack

Posted Jun 12, 2013 - 12:30 pm

A couple of recent announcements from Mirantis show just how difficult it is to build an OpenStack cloud
cloud computing, OpenStack
Moonshot to run HP's OpenStack distribution

Posted Jun 12, 2013 - 01:30 pm

HP is talking up the ease with which customers can shift applications across its public and private clouds
HP, OpenStack
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
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.
cloud computing, networking
Physicists link OpenStack, Nimbus clouds around the world to share resources

Posted Apr 18, 2013 - 12:28 pm

Particle physicists need huge computing resources but for relatively short periods of time. They've already started linking their clouds so they can better share those resources when they aren't being used.
cloud computing, OpenStack
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
cloud computig, OpenStack
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.
AWS, cloud
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
Dell dumps its public cloud offerings

Posted May 20, 2013 - 12:16 pm

Dell said it will start offering public cloud services only through partners, dumping its own offerings
cloud computing drivers, Dell

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