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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.

AWS East might get more reliable, if reports of new data center pan out

Posted Jan 15, 2013 - 08:22 pm

Reports say that Amazon is working on new data centers in Virginia to shore up its outage-prone East region
Dell, Intel investment in Mirantis represents a vote for open OpenStack

Posted Jan 10, 2013 - 08:00 pm

Dell, Intel Capital and WestSummit Capital are investing $10 million in OpenStack systems integrator Mirantis
AWS rolls out automation feature -- should vendors be worried?

Posted Jan 09, 2013 - 03:21 pm

AWS is now letting customers set rules that will automatically shut down instances that go unused, for example.
It's make-or-break time for OpenStack

Posted Jan 04, 2013 - 10:00 am

Rackspace's CTO says there are loads of implementations that we don't know about but will become public in 2013.
Dell to wait for OpenStack to mature, will launch public cloud late next year

Posted Jan 03, 2013 - 10:00 am

A Dell executive said that OpenStack isn't quite there yet and so the company expects to launch its public cloud based on the platform late next year.
FatFractal CEO: Enterprise mobile apps don't need to be so crappy

Posted Dec 26, 2012 - 10:00 am

IT needs a mindshift and should allow new tools like BaaS that would let most anyone in an organization build mobile apps, FatFractal's CEO said.
Does Cloud Sherpas' cash infusion mean cloud is too complicated?

Posted Dec 21, 2012 - 01:02 pm

Cloud Sherpas received $40 million in funding to help grow its business that helps companies implement and integrate Google Apps and Salesforce
As standalone businesses, PaaS providers aren't cutting it

Posted Dec 19, 2012 - 02:18 pm

A Forrester survey shows that the established vendors with PaaS offerings are more attractive to developers than the smaller, standalone service providers.
Dell's public cloud -- initially scheduled to launch this year -- will run on OpenStack

Posted Dec 13, 2012 - 06:28 pm

With little fanfare, Dell announced it will use OpenStack for its public cloud service that presumably won't be launching this year.
In a crowded market, cloud monitoring services expand

Posted Dec 12, 2012 - 09:00 am

Straight cloud monitoring services, like those from Cloudyn, Cloudability and Newvem might be a thing of the past as some service providers team up or add functionality as a way to stand out in a crowded market.

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