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OpenStack Sees Widespread Enterprise Adoption
As a recent attendee and speaker at the OpenStack Summit in Atlanta, I was amazed at what a difference a year makes in the life of the OpenStack project. ...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
Oracle Revs Virtual Compute Appliance
The engineered systems that Oracle is best known for are used to accelerate databases and middleware, but the company also peddles machines that are preconfigured to run basic cloud ...Full Article
Cloud, Engineered Systems Offset Oracle Software Slump
The cloud business at Oracle is now almost as large as the engineered systems business that underpins it, and both are growing considerably faster than the rest of the ...Full Article
IBM Unveils High-Speed Link To SoftLayer Cloud
IBM is offering a dedicated connection to its SoftLayer cloud platform as a high-speed link between an enterprise's existing IT infrastructure and cloud services. The SoftLayer cloud division of ...Full Article
FedRAMP Enlists Industry Vet To Oversee Clouds
The U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) has appointed a tech industry veteran to help oversee its uneven cloud rollout. Jennifer Kerber, former president of the industry group TechAmerica Foundation ...Full Article
Some Cloud Vendors Will Miss FedRAMP Deadline
A June 5 deadline for federal agencies to comply with government cloud security and other U.S. standards could leave some major cloud vendors on the outside looking in. That ...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
Atos Buys Bull To Commercialize HPC, Build Out Cloud
Atos, the European IT services giant based in France that is the amalgam of a dozen companies that have been brought together over the past several decades, is getting ...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