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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.

Comcast, Best Buy take the wraps off OpenStack implementations

Posted Apr 16, 2013 - 04:58 pm

Comcast and Best Buy are talking about their OpenStack implementations for the first time.
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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Interoperability question shows OpenStack growing pains

Posted Apr 17, 2013 - 07:00 am

A panel discussion during the OpenStack Summit about interoperability issues shows that the community recognizes how important the issue is, but hasn't quite figured out how to handle it
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
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.
Cloudyn points out AWS billing surprise

Posted Jan 22, 2013 - 08:23 pm

AWS bills for a certain type of reserved instance in advance, which can make it challenging for customers to track spending spikes
PayPal dodges VMware question -- again -- but sheds light on OpenStack implementation

Posted Apr 18, 2013 - 02:17 pm

The company didn't clarify recent reports suggesting that it will dump VMware, but it did share some insight into its new OpenStack cloud
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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.
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
Private clouds go down as often as public, RightScale found

Posted Feb 27, 2013 - 10:00 am

RightScale surveyed public records to take a pulse on cloud outages from 2012 and the findings might surprise you.

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