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Red Hat Joins The Crowd On Google Cloud
The cloud is making for strange bedfellows, which may turn out to be another of its attributes as prices decline. Case in point: Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) is ...Full Article
Federated Cloud Services Offer Response To Commodity Pricing
As cloud services rapidly become a commodity, smaller local service providers are feeling the heat as market leaders Amazon Web Services, Google, and Microsoft engage in a price war ...Full Article
Greenpeace Sees Progress Toward ‘Green’ Datacenters
We can't do much without power, and cloud computing services are using a growing share of the world's electrical power. That trend is expected to accelerate as emerging markets ...Full Article
Microsoft Turbocharges Transactions With ‘Hekaton’ In-Memory
Microsoft is joining the in-memory database party with the release to manufacturing of SQL Server 2014 and its "Hekaton" feature. The new SQL engine has been optimized for in-memory ...Full Article
New CEO Nadella Reshuffles Microsoft’s Exec Deck
Microsoft's new chief Satya Nadella finished up his first month as the head of the software giant with some internal restructuring. Two of the company's top executives, Tony Bates ...Full Article
Financial Firms Ask Red Hat To Bring .NET To OpenShift Cloud
Red Hat is going to be bringing application runtime and database servers of Windows platforms to its OpenShift platform cloud, and some big financial services companies are, as it ...Full Article
Microsoft Installs Direct Line To Azure Cloud
A public cloud is only as good as the networks it links into, and so Microsoft has begun to offer dedicated connections to the Windows Azure public cloud. The ...Full Article
Enterprise Guru Nadella Takes The Helm At Microsoft
The search is over, and perhaps a calmer and more focused era is beginning for Microsoft now that it has tapped insider Satya Nadella to become its next chief ...Full Article
Sneak Peeks At Some Future Open Compute Servers
Events like the Open Compute Summit are like show-and-tell for hardware geeks. It is a chance for system designers, builders, and in this case customers to give their peers ...Full Article
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
