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Big Data Prefers Bare Metal
Benchmark testing of a database running on bare metal versus virtual public cloud servers found that the physical machines outperformed the virtual machines in terms of throughput and latency ...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
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
Microsoft Pressuring AWS In The Clouds
A closely watched assessment of the cloud computing industry again ranks Amazon Web Services (AWS) as the leading cloud infrastructure-as-a-service provider (IaaS), but notes that rival Microsoft is slowly ...Full Article
Oracle Gains U.S. FedRAMP Cloud Approval
Oracle's managed cloud services have received the U.S. government's seal of approval. The software giant said this week it has been approved under a federal IT program to deliver ...Full Article
Rackspace Hires Bankers To Explore Its Options
The potent combination of OpenStack cloud computing software, Open Compute Project minimalist hardware designed explicitly for hyperscale datacenters, and fanatical support may not be enough to allow for Rackspace ...Full Article
Eucalyptus Scales Out AWS Cloud Clone
Cloud controller pioneer Eucalyptus Systems is sticking to its plan to provide a private cloud alternative that mimics Amazon Web Services and with the 4.0 release of its eponymous ...Full Article
