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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.

SLAs from HP and AWS shouldn't make you feel particularly confident

Posted Dec 06, 2012 - 05:41 pm

Gartner took a close look at SLAs from AWS and HP and what it found isn't pretty.
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Rackspace CTO: Gartner is missing the point about OpenStack

Posted Dec 05, 2012 - 11:55 am

Rackspace's CTO says Gartner, which put out a scathing report about OpenStack this summer, is out of touch.
Sure, Amazon should be worried about private clouds, but it can't continue to ignore IaaS competitors

Posted Nov 28, 2012 - 05:38 pm

AWS spent plenty of time trash talking private cloud vendors but it seems to have forgotten about the impending direct competition from up-and-coming IaaS vendors.
See how well cloud apps are working for your peers

Posted Nov 26, 2012 - 07:19 pm

A new feature from Boundary is designed to give you insight into the app performance that your peers are getting on the same -- and different -- cloud service you use.
Little fanfare for important cloud standard OVF

Posted Nov 21, 2012 - 07:17 pm

Microsoft, Citrix and VMware have different motives for supporting the standard
Some AWS partnerships -- like with Oracle and Microsoft -- are just about to get awkward

Posted Nov 20, 2012 - 08:26 pm

Enterprise software vendors like Oracle and Microsoft have made sure their apps can run on AWS, but they're likely to become less friendly with Amazon once their own competitive IaaS services come into their own.
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Cloud analytics market heats up with launches this week

Posted Nov 16, 2012 - 02:19 pm

Both Newvem and Cloudability launched to general availability this week. Will Newvem's subtly different pitch attract users?
Skytap's strategy: Get into the enterprise through test and dev

Posted Nov 15, 2012 - 05:55 pm

Skytap announced new features this week aimed at its test and dev customers. The company's strategy is to get a firm foothold in test and dev with the hopes that customers will choose it for full production when they're ready to move to the cloud.
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