Cloud wars: what happens when one vendor outs another?
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Update: It’s messy when one tech vendor claims a major competitive win without the customer around to validate it. So, is Workday using HP Cloud or not? Read more »
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Cloud security market landscape, 2013–2017
Cyber threats are now a critical issue affecting the national security of nation countries worldwide. At the same time, the IT world is witnessing a wave of new innovation, and there are numerous business opportunities for technologies built around the emerging market sectors of mobile and cloud computing. These technologies and the companies creating with them will form the future of cloud security over the next several years. Read more at GigaOM Pro »
Coming from Amazon — lots of Mini-Me clouds for government work?
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Amazon’s GovCloud targets U.S. state, federal and local government workloads. Here’s betting AWS will replicate that model abroad. Read more »
T-Mobile’s plan to supercharge LTE: A whole lot of antennas
Exclusive to GigaOM: Over the next 12 months, T-Mobile USA will bolt thousands of new LTE antennas to its cell towers, utilizing a technique called 4X2 MIMO. It’s not LTE-Advanced, but it will create a faster and more resilient network. Read more »
Why IBM desperately needed to buy SoftLayer
Can IBM use SoftLayer as a way to fend off Amazon Web Service incursions? Or is it already too late? Read more »
The week in cloud: Can Windows Azure disrupt Amazon’s cloud? Stay tuned.
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The public cloud computing landscape gets more interesting with Microsoft pushing its new Windows Azure infrastructure services vs. Amazon (and Google.) Read more »
Verizon’s new supersized LTE network will be bigger and badder, but not faster
Verizon will make most LTE device compatible with the new 4G network it’s building in the AWS band. For consumers, this doesn’t necessarily mean faster speeds, but their mobile data experience will certainly improve. Read more »
Say hello to Netflix Conformity Monkey
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Conformity Monkey, as its name implies, finds badly behaving compute instances, in the Amazon public cloud. Read more »
Amazon spreads net wider by federating Facebook and Google (and Amazon) identities
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If you’re a developer, chances are you use Amazon Web Services for something. Now if you want to authenticate Google and Facebook users for your app, you can do so. Read more »
How Amazon’s cloud competitors are trying to find cracks in AWS’s armor
News flash: The public cloud “ain’t all that,” says every cloud provider in the universe (except for Amazon Web Services.) Read more »
Cloudcheckr boosts support for Amazon GovCloud
Amazon’s GovCloud presents its own special demands on users and service providers who work with it. CloudCheckr says it’s the only third-party AWS monitoring company that can help agencies assess their GovCloud workloads. Read more »
FedRAMP seal of approval clears Amazon for more government work
AWS is the first major cloud provider to get its FedRAMP certification which should make it easier for government agencies to put more workloads on Amazon’s cloud. Read more »
The week in cloud: Google and Microsoft spar while IBM and SAP play hot hands
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Google and Microsoft slapfest continues; IBM pushes Watson for third-party apps; SAP bets big on HANA for ERP. Read more »
As Amazon, Google, Microsoft beat each others brains in, who wins? The user
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It may not be pleasant for the competitors, but cloud competition is nothing but good for cloud consumers — whether they’re startups or Fortune 100 companies. Read more »
So Google Compute Engine is out, your move Amazon
Now that GCE is available to all — complete with by-the-minute charges and a new NoSQL database service, we eagerly await Amazon’s response. Make no mistake, there will be one. Read more »
Amazon cloud watcher Newvem now watches Azure too
With Amazon beefing up its own AWS monitoring tools, it makes sense for companies like Newvem to take on other clouds. That’s just what Newvem is doing. Read more »
Google I/O: Arming for the battle of the public cloud stars
Whether or not Google officially rolls out its GCE public cloud to all takers this week, GCE will take on AWS and Windows Azure for market- and mind-share going forward. Read more »
Laggard Rackspace growth sparks concern: is there enough cloud biz to go around?
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There are lots of potential cloud workloads out there but there are also about a zillion clouds. Is there really enough paid work to support them all? Read more »
MadeiraCloud nets $1.5M to paint a pretty picture of your Amazon cloud
Startup says its visualization tool is an easier way to see all AWS resources associated with a given application and will use its new money to advertise that feature. Read more »
From Amazon’s cloud guy: 6 hiring tips for startups
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Amazon Web Services’ Andy Jassy knows a little something about staffing an internal startup; he shared lessons learned with entrepreneurs Wednesday morning. Read more »
SAP to world: We’re a cloud company, no really!
To the surprise of very few, SAP plans to put make its HANA analytical database available as a cloud service. Read more »
How an old-school telco gear maker got the cloud religion. Can it convert the carriers?
Metaswitch is bringing the cloud model to telcos by open sourcing it’s new IMS core software that runs on commodity hardware. IT’s a good first step for the telcos but they must go further. Read more »
Dell snaps up Enstratius to build cloud momentum
With Enstratius, Dell gets enterprise-class cloud management capabilities, says Enstratius CTO George Reese. Read more »
Clustrix nets $16.5M to push its database outside the box
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NewSQL company will use its new cash to make its proprietary database more easily available to developers via their cloud infrastructure of choice, says CEO Robin Purohit. Read more »
API-crazy Amazon adds a new tool to boost support for enterprise AWS customers
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Amazon says its new API will help businesses on support contracts automate how their support calls are set up and handled. Read more »
Xeround pulls the plug on cloud database service
Company tells users of its cloud-based MySQL database service to move their instances by May 8 or else. (May 15 for paying customers.) Read more »
Amazon offers cloud certifications; more proof that AWS is all grown up
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Amazon is following the lead of its IT elders by rolling out technology certifications for developers, solution architects and admins. Read more »
Say what? Microsoft Azure’s a $1 billion business?
Microsoft says it’s sold a billion dollars worth of cloud services. But as is usually the case, the value of cloud sales depends on what your definition of cloud is. Read more »
More fun facts about AWS usage, this time from Cloudyn
Companies like Cloudyn want to make Amazon Web Services less of a mystery to its users, but they have lots of competition — including from Amazon itself. Read more »
Eucalyptus supports Netflix tools to prove its Amazon cloud compatibility
Eucalyptus wants to be the most compatible of AWS-compatible private clouds and says its support of Netflix OSS tools proves it is just that. Read more »
The week in cloud: the argument for lots of clouds; mobility rules; catching up with Dell
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RightScale research says one cloud won’t fit all; mobile development landgrab continues with Facebook-Parse deal; Michael Dell talks up cloud opportunity. Read more »
Joyent says Chef support will make cloud workloads mobile
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The cloud provider is banking that its new full integration of Opscde Chef, which is also supported by Amazon Web Services, will make it easier for AWS customers to move to Joyent Cloud. Read more »
Verizon grows by another 720,000 subscribers, continues shift toward LTE
Verizon’s generated some impressive activation numbers in the normally slow first quarter: 5.9 million LTE devices; 7.2 million smartphones; and 4 million new iPhones, half of which were the LTE-capable iPhone 5. Read more »
New iPhone 5 gives T-Mobile’s MVNOs a network boost, but still no LTE
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Solavei will sell the device for steep price of $700, but unlocked versions of the new iPhone 5 will work with its SIM cards. Solavei resells T-Mo’s service, giving access to its nationwide HSPA+ network, but not LTE. Read more »
Cloud adoption: It’s not about the price, stupid
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Remember when the decision to go to Amazon Web Services was all about saving dough? Smart consumers now know that’s not the real reason to move workloads to the cloud. Read more »
Upstart Server Density sets sights on RightScale with new cloud management goodies
Scrappy London startup Server Density is adding AWS and Rackspace provisioning capabilities to its existing monitoring service, says co-founder and CEO David Mytton. Read more »
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Cloud and data first-quarter 2013: analysis and outlook
Cloud computing is finally starting to add value to business, as those in charge of cloud within enterprises are moving from talking to doing. That much was very evident in the first quarter of 2013. Read more at GigaOM Pro »
The week in cloud: Google and Amazon cut prices (again); OpenStack Grizzly debuts
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Amazon keeps cutting prices of its base level services, but software vendors still say when it comes to deployment in many cases, AWS is still not the most cost-efficient option. Read more »
Google cracks open access to its compute cloud — a little bit
Getting into Google Compute Engine isn’t impossible, but it isn’t super easy either. You sign up and wait. Now Google is opening the door to new users willing to pay for support. Read more »
Setting the record straight: Own an AT&T iPhone 5? It will work on T-Mobile’s LTE network
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There’s a lot of confusing noise out there about whether you can bring an unlocked iPhone 5 over to T-Mo’s network and get it to work properly. Here’s the low-down on what the GSM iPhone 5 can and can’t do. Read more »
