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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.

Top cloud news of the week

Posted Mar 08, 2013 - 01:22 pm

Amazon cuts more prices, Cloud Foundry lives, IBM still backs OpenStack, eBay measures data center pay-off, and more.
How many is too many public OpenStack cloud services?

Posted Mar 07, 2013 - 10:00 am

There's enough competition on the horizon that I predict soon enough we'll be wondering if there's too much competition
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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
OpenStack spins up 700 test clouds a day -- on donated HP and Rackspace time

Posted Apr 04, 2013 - 11:00 am

OpenStack is releasing the latest version of the cloud stack this week and is talking about testing, contributors and the future.
Piston CTO: 'Giant explosion of businesses moving off AWS'

Posted Apr 09, 2013 - 06:00 am

Piston co-founder Josh McKenty said businesses are fleeing AWS and while some surely are leaving, 'giant explosion' is surely an overstatement.
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
OpenStack to start cracking down on incompatible clouds

Posted Apr 09, 2013 - 07:18 pm

The OpenStack Foundation is starting to get serious about making sure that cloud services are truly interoperable if they want to call their services OpenStack.
New OpenStack initiative could address interoperability questions

Posted Apr 10, 2013 - 04:00 pm

There is some debate over which OpenStack clouds are truly interoperable, but a new project could help clear up differences
Rackspace launches new business, hopes to build network of clouds around the world

Posted Apr 15, 2013 - 12:01 am

Rackspace is entering a new business that will build and maintain clouds for service providers like telcos
Immaturity holding back OpenStack deployments

Posted Apr 16, 2013 - 02:48 pm

Attendees at the OpenStack Summit say that businesses worry about using OpenStack because it currently takes too much work to implement

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