Rackspace To Go It Alone, Focus On Managed Cloud
For the past four months, Rackspace Hosting, one of the main driving forces behind the OpenStack cloud controller and Open Compute open source hardware, has been entertaining a number ...Full Article
Cisco Advances ‘Intercloud’ With Metacloud Deal
Cisco Systems is acquiring privately held Metacloud, which deploys and operates private clouds based on the OpenStack cloud controller. The acquisition is intended to accelerate Cisco's intercloud strategy aimed ...Full Article
Navy Looks To Float ‘Tactical Cloud’
As government agencies edge closer to cloud adoption, one of the military services is attempting to take a more proactive approach to leveraging cloud technology to deliver tactical applications ...Full Article
SoftLayer Brings Hourly Billing To Bare Metal Cloud
For plenty of analytics and technical workloads, running on bare metal is still more desirable than running on a hypervisor-sliced cloud. SoftLayer was an early and enthusiastic provider of ...Full Article
CliQr Manages Applications Across Hybrid Clouds
As more hybrid clouds are deployed, the cloud and workload management ecosystem continues to expand. Case in point is hybrid cloud management specialist CliQr Technologies that this week rolled ...Full Article
DOD Certifies AWS Cloud for ‘Sensitive’ Data
Amazon Web Services got the green light this week from the federal government to begin rolling out cloud services designed to handle "sensitive" workloads. AWS has announced that the ...Full Article
Microsoft’s Own Five Year Move To The Azure Cloud
Just because you have built one of the world's largest clouds does not necessarily mean that you can easily move your own applications to it. Such is the case ...Full Article
Cascade of Service Outages Plague Azure Cloud
There has been no silver lining behind the Microsoft Azure cloud service during August, according to an outfit that tracks cloud outages and downtime. Meanwhile, Amazon Web Service performance ...Full Article
New Tools From AWS And A Price Cut
Amazon Web Services said it is extending its Domain Name Service called Amazon Route 53 to include support for domain name registration along with management and geographical DNS. The ...Full Article
SoftLayer To Outflank Rivals With Bare Metal, InfiniBand, And Power8
There are many ways for IBM to get to the $7 billion revenue run rate it has promised Wall Street it can hit as it exits 2015. One way ...Full Article
