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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
Pivotal Cloud Foundry Targets Mobile App Development
Expanded enterprise mobile services launched by Pivotal, the enterprise platform-as-a-service specialist spun out of VMware, are intended to help developers and cloud operators speed the delivery a range of ...Full Article
Platform9 Emerges From Stealth To Unify Virtualization Management
The cloud ecosystem continues to expand as a group of ex-VMware engineers have emerged from stealth mode to launch a new software-as-a-service (SaaS) platform aimed at managing private clouds. ...Full Article
Developers Churn Out More Cloud Apps, But Security Concerns Linger
A market survey of more than 400 public cloud developers found that they are releasing applications with greater frequency, the cloud creates more opportunities for collaboration and that security ...Full Article
Zadara Offers Pay-As-You-Go Virtual Storage
The list of Things-as-a-Service keeps growing. Zadara Storage has rolled out the latest entry with the introduction of On-Premise-as-a-Service (OPaaS), targeting private clouds that include managed storage area network ...Full Article
VoltDB Database Put Through The Paces On Clouds
One of the buzzwords for users of cloud services refers to the increasing need for speed and the velocity of data. Datasets are not only growing in size but ...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
Rackspace Adds MySQL Services, More Databases Coming
Rackspace has expanded its managed cloud services, adding two open source variants of the MySQL database along with plans to add another database to its support list by mid-August. ...Full Article
Azure Cloud Lifts Microsoft Revenues
Microsoft's otherwise lackluster quarterly earnings report, weighed down by the closing of its deal to buy the Nokia smartphone business, nevertheless showed sustained growth in its Azure cloud. Revenue ...Full Article
