Rackspace Cuts Open vSwitch From Latest OpenStack Private Cloud
Rackspace Hosting has built two versions of its eponymous Private Cloud, the version of OpenStack that includes hardware and software that it either runs in its own facilities or ...Full Article
Red Hat Looks To Build OpenShift Momentum
Leveraging the "momentum" of its commercial platform-as-a-service, Red Hat says it is looking to expand its OpenShift Online service in Europe with a new hosting offering in Ireland. Red ...Full Article
Verizon Cloud Interconnect Adds AWS
Verizon's Enterprise Solutions unit is expanding connections to its private IP cloud interconnect service to include Amazon Web Services. Verizon's Secure Cloud Interconnect (SCI) service currently works with Microsoft ...Full Article
Harvard Biz Survey Touts IT ‘Pioneers’
A new report by the august Harvard Business Review and its corporate sponsor Verizon sings the praises of early adoption of technologies like cloud computing as the quickest path ...Full Article
U.S. Government Cloud Spending Exceeding Forecasts
As the federal government stumbles toward cloud deployment, an industry watcher reckons that cloud computing nevertheless represents a healthy 5 percent of federal IT spending. The growth is being ...Full Article
Rackspace To Go It Alone, Focus On Managed Cloud
For the past four months, Rackspace Hosting, one of the main driving forces behind the OpenStack cloud controller and Open Compute open source hardware, has been entertaining a number ...Full Article
Cisco Advances ‘Intercloud’ With Metacloud Deal
Cisco Systems is acquiring privately held Metacloud, which deploys and operates private clouds based on the OpenStack cloud controller. The acquisition is intended to accelerate Cisco's intercloud strategy aimed ...Full Article
Navy Looks To Float ‘Tactical Cloud’
As government agencies edge closer to cloud adoption, one of the military services is attempting to take a more proactive approach to leveraging cloud technology to deliver tactical applications ...Full Article
SoftLayer Brings Hourly Billing To Bare Metal Cloud
For plenty of analytics and technical workloads, running on bare metal is still more desirable than running on a hypervisor-sliced cloud. SoftLayer was an early and enthusiastic provider of ...Full Article
CliQr Manages Applications Across Hybrid Clouds
As more hybrid clouds are deployed, the cloud and workload management ecosystem continues to expand. Case in point is hybrid cloud management specialist CliQr Technologies that this week rolled ...Full Article
