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 »
AWS is the McDonald’s of the cloud. Who’s the Burger King?
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It’s easy to characterize the cloud computing market as being Amazon Web Services’ to lose, but that doesn’t tell the whole story. McDonald’s dominates the fast food world, but life isn’t exactly bad for its dozens of competitors. 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 »
The TechStars startup empire expands to Austin with new program
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TechStars has opened a new startup accelerator program in the capital of Texas, roughly 90 miles up the road from its TechStars Cloud program in San Antonio. With SXSW and Google Fiber, Austin is hot. Read more »
Cloudant snares $12M from Rackspace and others to build awareness for its cloudy database
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Cloudant will use its new cash to build out staff and offices in the U.K and Asia and to build awareness of its NoSQL database-as-a-service worldwide. 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 »
Cloud providers seek to become “arms dealers” to telco, carrier clouds
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Tier 3, Dell, Rackspace — all would very much like to sell their cloud wares to telcos, carriers, managed service providers and are rolling out packages to attract those companies. Read more »
Inktank gears up Ceph storage with support for Red Hat Linux
Ceph is an open-source storage fan fave and now Inktank is buffing it up with Red Hat Linux support. 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 »
Stackdriver opens its cloud monitoring service for business
If you run your applications in AWS or Rackspace clouds, you probably want to monitor their performance and get real-time alerts should things go awry. Stackdriver says it has a service for you. Read more »
AppFog drops Rackspace support
So much for running your AppFog apps on any cloud: The PaaS provider is dumping Rackspace support completely this week. 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 »
Forecast for the cloud: it will come in a million varieties
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The cloud is dominated by massive, super-scale providers like Google and Amazon. But that is going to change, and eventually every business big or small will have a cloud suited specifically to their needs. Read more »
Rackspace to telcos: build your OpenStack cloud on us
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Telcos and service providers wanting to compete with Amazon in public cloud services can jump-start that effort by tapping Rackspace, says Rackspace. Read more »
The week in cloud: Bezos rationalizes AWS feature churn; OpenStackers cue up news
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Amazon’s chief vows to keep up the AWS feature race; OpenStack gets two more big backers as vendors cue up news for the OpenStack Summit. Read more »
Rackspace fights patent troll in the name of every mobile developer everywhere
Rackspace is taking one for the team by trying to invalidate a patent that an alleged patent troll claims covers the ability for mobile displays to rotate as the device turns. Read more »
Scoop: Juniper, Ericsson go for OpenStack gold
The two networking powers have applied to become Gold members of the foundation that governs the OpenStack open-source cloud effort. Read more »
Cloud wars to rage on with dueling OpenStack, AWS events next week
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Can’t get enough cloud? Just wait till next week when OpenStack and Amazon Web Services host simultaneous events 3,000 miles apart. 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 »
Salesforce.com and Rackspace gear up for mobile developers
Industry giants are adding more development and platform goodies for mobile app developers. This may have the more targeted MBaaS providers a little perplexed. 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 »
Can big tech overcome its love-hate relationship and destroy patent trolls once and for all?
Almost every tech company claims to hate patent trolls, but they certainly don’t always back up their words with actions. Recent patent activity around the Hadoop big data platform might show how companies can effectively battle trolls — if they really want to. Read more »
Man bites dog: Rackspace sues “notorious” patent troll
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Rackspace will see Parallel Iron and IP Nav in federal court where it will ask for damages in a bid to stop patent troll abuses Read more »
OpenStack Grizzly adds scale, storage options. Now, bring on the users
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With the new release, OpenStack continues to add features and perks to its cloud infrastructure stack. What it needs to start showing now is real end-user customers outside the tech bubble. Read more »
Amazon is the cloud to beat, but Google has the cloud to watch. Here’s why.
So who will be number two in public cloud after Amazon Web Services? Smart money is now on Google Compute Engine. With caveats, of course. Read more »
Rackspace cozies up to developers with Exceptional Tool Services acquisition
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Its latest acquisition of error-tracking and Redis To Go services illustrates Rackspace’s desire to offer more developer-friendly goods and services. Read more »
RightScale says its free price-tracking service can wring the most out of cloud deployments
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Don’t like the cost of your cloud deployment? Wait a second, it’ll change. And Rightscale says it can help you make sense out of all those changes and cut your costs. Read more »
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How the mega data center is changing the hardware and data center markets
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Mega data centers’ innovations in serviceability, automatically detecting and recovering from failures, procurement practices, and so forth will become standard practice in all modern data centers. Read more at GigaOM Pro »
The week in cloud: VMware fesses up; Amazon adds features; Newvem watches Amazon
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It was a busy week in cloud as VMware took the wraps off its public cloud play; Newvem added still another way to watch your Amazon account; and Amazon itself churned out a ton of new AWS features. Read more »
EMC is just not that into SoftLayer, but IBM may be
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EMC is not in the race for SoftLayer, the cloud services provider, but IBM is on the prowl for cloud expertise and has looked at both SoftLayer and Rackspace, sources say. Read more »
Vagrant gets busy with VMware Fusion, Rackspace support
Version 1.1 of Vagrant, an open source tool for creating virtual development workspaces, is adding support for VMware Fusion and Rackspace Open Cloud. Read more »
Who’s the biggest cloud of all? The numbers are in
Synergy Research ranked the top Iaas, PaaS and CDN providers by revenue for the fourth quarter. Some of the findings might surprise you. Read more »
Rackspace gussies up private cloud with new OpenCenter dashboard
Rackspace says its new dashboard, part of its latest OpenStack-based private cloud release, will speed up cloud rollouts and configuration tasks by adding point-and-click capabilities for enteprise users. Read more »
Rackspace buys its way into MongoDB market with ObjectRocket
NoSQL databases are hot and MongoDB may be the hottest of the NoSQL databases, which is why Rackspace is buying ObjectRocket and its MongoDB expertise. Read more »
Exclusive: RightScale is first to resell, support Google Compute Engine
The RightScale-GCE deal gives RightScale early lead on capturing Google cloud customers and gives Google infrastructure credibility — and support — for business customers. Read more »
This week in cloud: Cloud as job creator, crazy times for Microsoft Azure storage
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IT folks who worry that cloud computing adoption will kill jobs, may be surprised by the results of a new survey; Amazon unveils OpsWorks; Rackspace makes price changes. Read more »
Rackspace: Hey Amazon, we can cut prices too
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Rackspace, perhaps deviating from its “fanatical support mantra” is cutting prices on its CDN services and rolling out a new tiered price structure for other services Read more »
Who’s the best cloud storage provider? Microsoft, says Nasuni; but it still likes Amazon
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Evaluation of five cloud storage providers showed improvement across the board, but Microsoft leapfrogged the rest — including Amazon S3 — in some criteria, says Nasuni’s Connor Fee. Read more »
Is Amazon yesterday’s cloud?
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ProfitBricks, which goes head-to-head with Amazon for the IT budgets of startups with a new promotion, says the time is ripe to disrupt the disrupter. Read more »
ComodIT takes on autoscaling as it moves towards being a ‘cloud brokering enabler’
The Belgian IT automation startup is now trying to address the scaling needs of its users. But before it leaves beta, it also wants to figure out the billing piece of the cloud broker business. Read more »
