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
Verizon Takes On AWS With Homegrown Cloud Code
Here is something you don't see every day: A public cloud operator that starts from scratch and creates its own hypervisor and controller rather than using off-the-shelf software. Amazon ...Full Article
US Government Says Microsoft Cloud Passes Security Muster
Microsoft's Windows Azure cloud has just got the seal of approval from the CIOs of the major agencies of the US government. Under the Obama Administration, the US government ...Full Article
Rackspace Is Open for Enterprise Business On Its Cloud
For all the talk about how clouds are going to take over the world, large enterprises have been typically conservative, waiting for the hype to die down. It has, ...Full Article
SUSE Cranks Cloud Controller Up to 2.0 With ‘Grizzly’ Update
SUSE Cloud, the variant of the OpenStack cloud controller put together by commercial Linux distributor SUSE Linux, is now riding the "Grizzly" release of OpenStack. And that means that ...Full Article
VMware Ships vSphere 5.5 Server Virtualization Wares
Server virtualization giant VMware has started shipping its latest iteration of its hypervisor and the tools that augment it, and is also now peddling further automate and orchestrate the ...Full Article
VCE Vblocks Chase More – And Bigger – Workloads
Partnerships in the IT sector don't always work out, but it looks like the Virtual Computing Environment effort between server upstart Cisco Systems, storage juggernaut EMC, and the latter's ...Full Article
