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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.

Rackspace CTO: Gartner is missing the point about OpenStack

Posted Dec 05, 2012 - 11:55 am

Update: Lydia Leong, the Gartner analyst who wrote the report about OpenStack, refuted some of Engates comments. Via Twitter, she said that Gartner's clients aren't only enterprises, but include tech companies of all sizes, even start-ups.
Is your cloud provider snooping?

Posted Jan 24, 2013 - 04:35 pm

I was skeptical after reading a recent article so I talked to a lawyer and he agrees: it's unlikely your service provider is examining your usage for competitive advantage
Cloudyn tackles out-of-control AWS cloud storage spending

Posted Feb 06, 2013 - 10:00 am

Cloudyn is offering some new features aimed at giving customers better insight into their AWS storage usage so that they can cut costs.
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Rackspace hopes OpenStack opens doors to enterprise

Posted Feb 13, 2013 - 07:30 pm

During its fourth quarter earnings call, Rackspace execs revealed just how much new territory they are tackling with the shift to OpenStack
Sure, Amazon should be worried about private clouds, but it can't continue to ignore IaaS competitors

Posted Nov 28, 2012 - 05:38 pm

During the opening keynote for Amazon Web Services inaugural developer conference, Andy Jassy, senior vice president for AWS, spent a surprising amount of time addressing the enterprise market.
Little fanfare for important cloud standard OVF

Posted Nov 21, 2012 - 07:17 pm

I was suspicious earlier this week when both Citrix and Microsoft blogged about their support of Open Virtuali
See how well cloud apps are working for your peers

Posted Nov 26, 2012 - 07:19 pm

Ever wish you could find out if your application is running in the cloud as efficiently as those your peers are running?
A new feature added today by Boundary -- which neglected to mention it in a press release announcing other new capabilities -- could let you do just that.
StackMob goes after enterprise customers with new marketplace

Posted Feb 19, 2013 - 02:00 pm

StackMob is among a handful of backend-as-a-service providers hoping to appeal to enterprises

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