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Report: How to resolve cloud migration challenges in physical and virtual applications
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VMWare on AWS is really cool!!! (or not?) #VMWonAWS
Just a few days before VMWorld, VMWare announced VMWare on AWS partnership. I struggled a bit to understand what it was and…
Read MoreJay Greene on Cloud Computing May Be Hampering Tech Spending
The transition to cloud computing – at the current snail pace doesn’t warrant ‘transformation’ rhetoric – may be getting a goose because of…
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The Dell-EMC deal is huge, but where’s it headed?
I forget about Dell. It happens all the time — I see that cheerful, round, delightfully dated logo and have something of an…
Read MoreWhy boring workloads trump intergalactic scale in HP’s cloud biz
Although having a laugh at so-called “enterprise clouds” is a respected pastime in some circles, there’s an argument to be made that…
Read MoreMicrosoft faces specter of shelfware in the cloud era
The notion that pay-as-you-go cloud computing will eliminate shelfware — paid-for but unused computing resources — has always been suspect. Last year I wrote…
Read MoreGoogle’s new service will ease real-time communications for applications
Google has a new real-time messaging system available in beta for its cloud service called Google Cloud Pub/Sub, the company said on…
Read MoreGoogle gets chatty about live migration while AWS stays mum
On Monday, Amazon wanted us to know that its staff worked day and night to avert planned reboots of cloud instances and updated…
Read MoreBox buys small security startup to court more risk-averse clients
Fresh off its IPO in January, Box has made its first acquisition of the year, buying a small security startup called Subspace,…
Read MoreGetting the real dope on your cloud deployment
Lots of companies can perform cost analysis of cloud-based instances; Krystallize Technologies promises to do more. The Austin, Texas–based startup said its technology…
Read MoreIntel, Alcatel-Lucent unveil their cloud mobile network
A year after forming their wireless partnership, Intel and Franco-American network builder Alcatel-Lucent say they’re ready to start moving the mobile network…
Read MoreAdd IBM cloud to the list of reboots to come
The latest Xen hypervisor vulnerabilities are forcing IBM to reboot some customers’ cloud instances between now and March 10. The vendor sent out an alert…
Read MoreFor retailers the buy-or-build cloud decision looms large
If you need proof that cloud deployment stories can touch off religious disputes, my recent report about @Walmartlabs deploying 100K cores of OpenStack to run the…
Read MoreXen security issue prompts Amazon, Rackspace cloud reboots
Amazon Web Services and Rackspace are warning their customers of upcoming reboots they’re taking to address a new Xen hypervisor security issue.…
Read MoreMicrosoft joins Docker in announcing new container services
Docker’s suite of orchestration services that the container-management startup first detailed in December are now available in beta for the public to…
Read MoreSooooo, what’s new with HP’s cloud strategy?
Look! Hewlett-Packard is doing something with Eucalyptus after all, at least according to a new web page touting HP Helion Eucalyptus, the “Open.…
Read MoreRemember when machine learning was hard? That’s about to change
A few years ago, there was a shift in the world of machine learning. Companies, such as Skytree and Context Relevant, began…
Read MoreA massive database now translates news in 65 languages in real time
I have written quite a bit about GDELT (the Global Database of Events, Languages and Tone) over the past year, because I think it’s…
Read MoreHeroku’s new app-development product line is meant for the enterprise
Heroku, the Salesforce-owned company that powers the application-development process of hot startups like Lyft and Upworthy, announced a new product line Thursday…
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ScienceLogic lands $43M to monitor the hybrid cloud
IT monitoring-specialist ScienceLogic just landed $43 million in a Series D funding round, which will give it more resources as it continues…
Read MoreAWS maintains lead in public cloud, but Azure inches forward
Amazon Web Services continues to dominate public cloud usage across the board, but Microsoft Azure is making strides at least in business accounts,…
Read MoreThis startup’s software can manage your storage, all inside the server
Although we’re still a ways away from seeing the data deluge that’s sure to come as the internet of things becomes more…
Read MorePrivate cloud? Public cloud? Rackspace erases the difference
Rackspace is going to stop distinguishing between the money it makes from public cloud and what it derives from “dedicated” cloud, a category that encompasses a…
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