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
Amazon SVP Says Outlook for Enterprise Datacenters Is Cloudy
Amazon Web Services doesn't see the world the same way that most system makers do, Andy Jassy, senior vice president of the cloud computing arm of the retailing giant, ...Full Article
Auto Engineering Firm Taps CliQr For Cloud Migration
Cloud computing is making enterprises more flexible than ever. The ability to spin up computing resources, take as much or as little as is needed, and then pay for ...Full Article
IBM Transitions SmartCloud Users to SoftLayer
Last week, IBM notified customers of its SmartCloud Enterprise infrastructure cloud that on January 31, 2014, their accounts would no longer be available and that customers would have 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
IBM Says Uncle to AWS on $600 Million CIA Cloud
After nine months of disputing that Amazon Web Services should not have been awarded a massive contract to build a private cloud for the US government's Central Intelligence Agency, ...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
Eucalyptus Tightens Integration with AWS, VMware Clouds
OpenStack may get a lot of attention these days, but plenty of enterprise customers who are building private clouds choose Eucalyptus Systems and its eponymous cloud controller. The reason ...Full Article
VMware Builds Out Public Cloud In US and Europe
The VMware server virtualization installed base has 40 million virtual machines across its 500,000 customers. Most of those VMware shops will want to run at least some of their ...Full Article
OpenStack Havana Makes Clouds Scale Globally
The OpenStack community that it developing the open source cloud controller by the same name has rolled up the "Havana" release of the tool and made it available for ...Full Article
