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Nancy Gohring wrote Eucalyptus CEO: Cloud services are double-edge sword for traditional vendors

Marten Mickos says that the traditional vendors, despite their established relationships with enterprises, face big hurdles in the cloud services market

8 weeks 5 days ago
Nancy Gohring wrote Salesforce: Before 'mobile first' comes 'cloud first'

Salesforce marketing and UX chief Kendall Collins talks about the nuances of going 'mobile first'

9 weeks 2 days ago
Nancy Gohring wrote Building an internal cloud? Forget HP and Dell, think Quanta

Quanta has quickly shifted its business away from an ODM model to selling direct to cloud service providers. It plans to target enterprises next.

9 weeks 3 days ago
Nancy Gohring wrote Cloud services can save you money -- if you're careful

Calculating the real ROI of cloud apps requires the analysis of a lot of factors, and cutting corners on that process means you might not save money.

9 weeks 3 days ago
Nancy Gohring wrote Top cloud news of the week

Amazon cuts more prices, Cloud Foundry lives, IBM still backs OpenStack, eBay measures data center pay-off, and more.

10 weeks 1 day ago
Nancy Gohring wrote How many is too many public OpenStack cloud services?

There's enough competition on the horizon that I predict soon enough we'll be wondering if there's too much competition

10 weeks 2 days ago
Nancy Gohring wrote Public cloud battle for the enterprise heats up

VMware this week signaled it plans to get more serious about the public cloud

11 weeks 1 day ago
Nancy Gohring wrote Private clouds go down as often as public, Rightscale found

RightScale surveyed public records to take a pulse on cloud outages from 2012 and the findings might surprise you.

11 weeks 4 days ago
Nancy Gohring wrote Newvem joins competitors, offers free tier

Newvem is offering some free data about customer AWS usage in hopes of breaking into the small and medium size business market

12 weeks 4 days ago
Nancy Gohring wrote StackMob goes after enterprise customers with new marketplace

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

12 weeks 4 days ago
Nancy Gohring wrote Rackspace hopes OpenStack opens doors to enterprise

During its fourth quarter earnings call, Rackspace execs revealed just how much new territory they are tackling with the shift to OpenStack

13 weeks 2 days ago
Nancy Gohring wrote New call for AWS spinoff

Oppenheimer analyst Tim Horan said that an Amazon Web Services spin off is "inevitable due to its channel conflicts."

13 weeks 4 days ago
Nancy Gohring wrote Cloudyn tackles out-of-control AWS cloud storage spending

Cloudyn is offering some new features aimed at giving customers better insight into their AWS storage usage so that they can cut costs.

14 weeks 4 days ago
Nancy Gohring wrote Piston CEO: loads of companies are switching from public to private clouds

Piston's CEO said that companies are leaving public cloud services because they aren't that cost effective and the customer service stinks.

14 weeks 4 days ago
Nancy Gohring wrote Rackspace changes course, won't support third party OpenStack distributions as part of private cloud offering

Last year Rackspace said it would support OpenStack distributions from other providers as part of its private cloud offering. Now it says times have changed and it'll stick with its own OpenStack distribution instead.

15 weeks 1 day ago
Nancy Gohring wrote Cloud services aimed at enterprises finally starting to appear

IBM and Oracle talked up their services this week. Combined with other enterprise services in the works, from the likes of Dell, and those already available, from companies like HP, 2013 is shaping up to be an important year for enterprise cloud.

15 weeks 2 days ago
Nancy Gohring wrote Speed up mobile app-dev with back-end as a service

Vendors offer code drop-ins that standardize common mobile features, including messaging and payment, so your in-house developers can focus on the functions that are most important to your business.

15 weeks 3 days ago
Nancy Gohring wrote BaaS: It's a crowded (and young) market

Back-end as a service offers standard features to drop into your apps, so your developers can spend their time on the most strategic pieces.

15 weeks 3 days ago
Nancy Gohring wrote Is your cloud provider snooping?

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

16 weeks 1 day ago
Nancy Gohring wrote Cloudyn points out AWS billing surprise

AWS bills for a certain type of reserved instance in advance, which can make it challenging for customers to track spending spikes

16 weeks 3 days ago
Nancy Gohring wrote AWS East might get more reliable, if reports of new data center are accurate

Reports say that Amazon is working on new data centers in Virginia to shore up its outage-prone East region

17 weeks 3 days ago
Nancy Gohring wrote SkyTap invites users to dip a toe into big data

Customers can try out a 50-node Cloudera Hadoop cluster for free

17 weeks 4 days ago
Nancy Gohring wrote Dell, Intel investment in Mirantis represents a vote for open OpenStack

Dell, Intel Capital and WestSummit Capital are investing $10 million in OpenStack systems integrator Mirantis

18 weeks 1 day ago
Nancy Gohring wrote AWS rolls out automation feature -- should vendors be worried?

AWS is now letting customers set rules that will automatically shut down instances that go unused, for example.

18 weeks 3 days ago
Nancy Gohring wrote Does Cloud Sherpas cash infusion mean cloud is too complicated?

Cloud Sherpas received $40 million in funding to help grow its business that helps companies implement and integrate Google Apps and Salesforce

21 weeks 1 day ago

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