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Inside IBM’s SoftLayer Cloud Build Out
Big companies like to orchestrate their announcements, and it is probably not a coincidence that IBM announced its plan to build out its SoftLayer public cloud just ahead of ...Full Article
Cloud Price War Rages As Microsoft Cuts Azure Storage Prices
Microsoft promised last year it would compete head-to-head with Amazon Web Services for compute and storage capacity on its public cloud, and it has made good on that promise ...Full Article
AMD Etches “Warsaw” Opterons For Financial Services Friends
AMD is taking a trip down the Opteron 6300 lane one last time with the launch of the "Warsaw" variants of its high-end server processors. The company has been ...Full Article
Google Compute Engine Gears Up to Take On AWS
Search engine juggernaut Google is taking the beta label off its Compute Engine cloud infrastructure services, taking on Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Windows Azure, IBM SoftLayer, and other public ...Full Article
ScaleXtreme Reins in Clouds with Orchestration
Cloud management software provider ScaleXtreme is puffing up its third major release of its cloud management tools, adding a workflow and orchestration engine that can reach up into the ...Full Article
Fat and Fast C3 Server Slices Unveiled for AWS Cloud
Rackspace Hosting just announced its own high-performance, flash-based server instances on its public cloud, and Amazon Web Services has answered with EC2 compute cloud instances that have the latest ...Full Article
Rackspace Profits Squeezed by Cloud Competition
Number two has to try harder, and it is not easy being the second-largest public cloud operator behind Amazon Web Services. This is why Rackspace Hosting continues to innovate ...Full Article
Who Is Using OpenStack, And How?
The OpenStack Summit is underway in Hong Kong this week, and the foundation behind the cloud controller project has released the results of a survey that was done to ...Full Article
Rackspace Jacks Up Memory, Adds SSDs on Public Cloud
If you want to charge a premium price for a product, you have to offer a premium service. Rather than get into a price war with Amazon Web Services, ...Full Article
Pitting Bare Metal Against Amazon, Rackspace Clouds
Cloud Spectator, which offers cloud performance monitoring services, has put together some interesting benchmark tests that pit bare metal cloud capacity from Internap against virtual machine slices from Amazon ...Full Article
