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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
Microsoft Adds Beefy Compute, File Service To Azure
It was a cloudy week for Microsoft at its annual TechEd shindig, which was held in Houston, Texas, this time around. The consistent theme of the announcements has been ...Full Article
OpenStack Dominated By Tire Kickers, Code Testers – For Now
There is no question that OpenStack has momentum behind it and that organizations of all types and stripes are thinking about how they might deploy the open source tool ...Full Article
NIH Preps $20 Billion IT, Cloud Contract
The National Institutes of Health is launching a massive IT acquisition program that will include commodity cloud and managed services. NIH released a request for proposals for its $20 ...Full Article
Red Hat Opens Up CloudForms Hybrid Cloud Manager
The final big chunk of software that commercial Linux juggernaut and virtualization and cloud player Red Hat has not yet open sourced after making a big acquisition has been ...Full Article
OpenStack Cloud Rebels To Mimic Linux Strategy
OpenStack is up against some pretty big odds, taking on the likes of Amazon Web Services, Google, and Microsoft to determine the future of cloud computing. And it thinks ...Full Article
Juniper Survey Shows Networks In Cloud Transition
The shift to cloud services increasingly requires changes in network infrastructure to support the rollout, a networking industry-sponsored study found. Juniper Networks commissioned the hybrid cloud study earlier this ...Full Article
Microsoft’s Azure Cloud Is About More Than Being Hyper
The funny thing about the largest cloud computing providers is that they are all bragging about the scale at which they can provide compute, storage, and networking capacity. But ...Full Article
HP To Invest $1 Billion In Helion Cloud Infrastructure
Hewlett-Packard said it expects to invest more than $1 billion over the next two years to deliver and support a "converged infrastructure" that includes cloud products and services geared ...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