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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.

Cloudscaling's Randy Bias: The time for OpenStack to embrace Amazon is now

Posted Jul 24, 2013 - 11:24 am

Randy Bias has long argued that OpenStack should fully support Amazon Web Services' APIs but says there's a new urgency to the matter.
Cloud Computing, cloud computing, OpenStack
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.
Cloud Computing, OpenStack, TripleO
Microsoft’s one million servers: what it means

Posted Jul 18, 2013 - 12:13 pm

Microsoft's Steve Ballmer recently disclosed that the company has one million servers in its data centers. Turns out, that metric -- kept a secret by some of the big Web companies -- doesn't really tell us a lot.
Cloud Computing, data center, Microsoft
Opinions mixed on whether Microsoft should have shook up Azure in re-org

Posted Jul 17, 2013 - 11:23 am

One consultant bemoans the lack of change to Azure while others say there's no reason to fix what's working
Cloud Computing, Azure, cloud
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
Cloud Computing, China, OpenStack
ENovance the latest cloud managed services company to get funding

Posted Jul 10, 2013 - 02:24 pm

ENovance, which will use any public cloud that suits, is the seventh largest contributor to OpenStack
Cloud Computing, eNovance, OpenStack
Deutsche Borse cloud exchange to have same limitation of those before it

Posted Jul 02, 2013 - 12:58 pm

The exchange will be "vendor-neutral," but most users will want to standardize on a vendor
Cloud Computing, cloud computing, exchange
Rackspace hopes to experiment with continuous deployment in private environment with CERN

Posted Jul 01, 2013 - 09:00 am

Rackspace will help CERN with its hybrid OpenStack implementation
Cloud Computing, OpenStack, Rackspace
Public cloud cost efficiency improves, according to Newvem

Posted Jun 27, 2013 - 01:36 pm

There is plenty of activity in the cloud monitoring market and Newvem's annual report on AWS efficiency shows use of its tools is paying off
Cloud Computing, Amazon Web Services, Newvem
It's true, Rackspace and Red Hat dominate OpenStack contributions

Posted Jun 26, 2013 - 09:00 am

A new data visualization tool makes it easy to see who is contributing to OpenStack
Cloud Computing, cloud, OpenStack

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