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Now that at least some of the smoke has cleared from the blockbuster news that Citrix is putting its CloudStack technology into the Apache process to compete with former partner OpenStack, here are 5 takeaways emerging from the latest cloud kerfuffle.…
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Over at InformationWeek, Charles Babcock reports on yesterday’s presentation by James Staten of Forrester. Babcock paraphrases Staten’s words and incorporates aspects of…
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