Nadella Pep Talk Stresses Microsoft ‘Ecosystem’
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella delivered a pep talk to the company's partner network this week in which he sought to flesh out the company's strategy for a "mobile-first, cloud-first ...Full Article
Rackspace Unveils ‘Managed Cloud’ Strategy
Cloud services provider Rackspace is unveiling a "managed cloud" strategy built around new service levels and a pricing model aimed at businesses looking for single- or multi-tenant servers, or ...Full Article
AWS Talks Up Enterprise Wins, Adds Zocalo Collaboration
Amazon Web Services, the cloud computing arm of the world's largest online retailer, got the first-mover advantage in cloud computing and has been aggressively innovating for more than eight ...Full Article
Interxion Gets Fast Links To AWS, Microsoft Clouds
Interxion, the Dutch cloud and datacenter services specialist, said its customers could link to Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure from any of its 37 datacenters. The private connections ...Full Article
EMC Buys TwinStrata To Link VMAX Arrays To Clouds
As part of the release of its VMAX3 release, EMC is acquiring cloud gateway startup TwinStrata. EMC said its new embedded cloud access would be delivered through TwinStrata's "cloud tiering" ...Full Article
Amazon T2 Cloud Instances With Burst Capability
Amazon Web Services is shifting down market with a new Amazon Elastic Computer Cloud (EC2) instance type designed for web and database applications that benefit from a performance burst ...Full Article
CIA Testing AWS Cloud for Security Holes
The CIA's chief information officer provided an update on the spy agency's plans to roll out private cloud services – one would guess extremely private – during an industry ...Full Article
Cloud 2.0 Promises To Transform, Disrupt Industries
The growing computational power and pervasiveness of the cloud is generating new applications and services that could transform industries and create new ones, a sunny survey of the future ...Full Article
Debate: How Many Open Source Platforms Are Enough?
Representatives of competing open source cloud controllers debated the merits of each and whether multiple open cloud platforms are even needed. The platform debate often comes down to which ...Full Article
Rackspace OnMetal Gives Bare Metal Oomph, Cloud Flexibility
When is a cloud not a cloud? When it is really dedicated hosting with a new name slapped on it. Rackspace Hosting, which made enough of a mark in ...Full Article
