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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.

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
backend as a service, cloud computing
A cloud for spooks makes sense, but from Amazon?

Posted Mar 20, 2013 - 08:00 am

Amazon is reportedly building a private cloud for the CIA, indicating that the provider of the largest IaaS cloud is ready for the enterprise
Amazon Web Services, cloud computing
Newvem adds Azure monitoring, despite signs of low demand

Posted May 16, 2013 - 09:00 am

Newvem is launching Azure monitoring and Cloudability is close behind, but signs indicate there isn't much demand for the services
Azure, cloud monitoring
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
cloud computing, standards
Next up in public cloud: Tiered SLAs

Posted Apr 23, 2013 - 02:18 pm

Cloud service providers are mulling the idea of offering different levels of SLAs
cloud computing, SLA
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.
Amazon Cloud Player, Amazon Web Services
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
cloud computing, OpenStack
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.
Amazon Web Services, Boundary
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.
Amazon Web Services, cloud computing

October is...
Unified Communications Month

BY THE NUMBERS: UC&C

HOW-TO: Look alive and professional in Web meetings

TIP: Use your cell phone as a WiFi VOIP phone

TOOLBOX: Six alternative tools for small business collaboration

CASE STUDY: Enterprise social network moves ad agency into the future

Change Microsoft Office 2013's default search engine from Bing to Google

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Microsoft's Security Essentials isn't the best antivirus program, according to Microsoft

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AMD pushes forward with new video cards and a few surprises

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Keep your old Facebook posts out of search with this one settings change

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BRIC Nations Plan Their own "Independent Internet"

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