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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.

Big data: what’s it good for?

Posted Sep 25, 2013 - 06:00 am

A couple of new surveys indicate that while businesses are moving full steam ahead toward big data, they don't have a firm grasp on what it can do for them.
big data, mainframe
Eucalyptus becomes first private cloud provider to support Netflix tools

Posted Apr 29, 2013 - 06:00 am

With its 3.3 release, Eucalyptus becomes the first private cloud software that allows users to take advantage of tools that Netflix open sourced for managing cloud deployments.
Eucalyptus, Netflix
OpenStack’s Hong Kong summit could be effort to keep China from going rogue

Posted Jul 11, 2013 - 09:00 am

By reaching out to its growing base of supporters in China, OpenStack could keep China from splintering from the main trunk
China, 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
Public cloud battle for the enterprise heats up

Posted Mar 01, 2013 - 10:00 am

VMware this week signaled it plans to get more serious about the public cloud
public cloud, VMware
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
Oracle’s Nimbula integration bolsters enterprise OpenStack cred

Posted Sep 24, 2013 - 02:50 pm

Businesses will be able to use Nimbula with a whole suite of Oracle products
OpenStack, Oracle
Government shutdown could impact bottom line for cloud providers

Posted Oct 02, 2013 - 10:56 am

Many cloud providers have touted their abilities to serve federal agencies. But federal contracts might not seem like such a good deal during the shutdown.
cloud, government
OpenStack project TripleO speeds deployment, may threaten some third party tools

Posted Jul 23, 2013 - 02:32 pm

TripleO, which aims to ease OpenStack deployments, is now an official OpenStack project. It's uncertain how it will co-exist with current tools from Puppet Labs and Opscode.
OpenStack, TripleO
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

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