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Barb Darrow Mar 5, 2015 (Jun 11, 2020) -- Azure Search comes online

Microsoft queues up DocumentDB for broad availability

Microsoft continues to fill in the check boxes for its Azure cloud. Example: Azure DocumentDB, Microsoft’s take on NoSQL databases a la…

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Cloud & Infrastructure
Barb Darrow Mar 5, 2015 (Jun 11, 2020) -- Unused cloud will bite back

Microsoft 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…

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Cloud & Infrastructure, Technology
Barb Darrow Mar 5, 2015 (Jun 11, 2020) -- Adding enterprise cred

New Relic drafts former Oracle exec to lead biz dev

New Relic has named John Gray, a former long-time channel exec for Oracle, as its new SVP of business development. Gray, who…

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Cloud & Infrastructure, Data Infrastructure, AI & Analytics, Technology
Barb Darrow Feb 25, 2015 (Jun 11, 2020) -- Great question!

Sooooo, 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.…

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Cloud & Infrastructure, Technology
Barb Darrow Feb 24, 2015 (Jun 11, 2020) -- Goal: Workload portability

Kubernetes comes to OpenStack this time thanks to Mirantis

For businesses wanting to run the Kubernetes cluster management framework for containers on OpenStack clouds, Google and Mirantis have teamed up to make that happen more…

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Cloud & Infrastructure, Data Infrastructure, AI & Analytics, Technology
Barb Darrow Feb 18, 2015 (Jun 11, 2020) -- Pushing beyond Windows

Microsoft embraces Python, Linux in new big data tools

Continuing its quest to make Microsoft Azure comfy for the non-Windows world, Microsoft just launched a preview of its Hadoop-based cloud tool (HDInsight) that runs…

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Cloud & Infrastructure, Data Infrastructure, AI & Analytics
Barb Darrow Jan 29, 2015 (Jun 11, 2020) -- Sighs of relief abound

Hooray! Amazon will start breaking out AWS numbers

For cloud watchers,  the real news out of Amazon’s fourth-quarter earnings call is that the company will finally break out Amazon Web Services…

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Cloud & Infrastructure, Technology
Barb Darrow Jan 28, 2015 (Jun 11, 2020) -- Monitoring for your cloud(s)

Datadog fetches $31M to beef up sales and engineering

Datadog, which promises to let companies see how well (or badly) their various cloud deployments are performing, now has $31 million in fresh Series…

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Cloud & Infrastructure, Technology
Barb Darrow Jan 27, 2015 (Jun 11, 2020) -- It won't be easy, folks

Microsoft’s big task: Replicating Windows-Office success in cloud

Microsoft turned in pretty good second quarter results on Monday, but its stock still took a hit after hours and into Tuesday. At…

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Cloud & Infrastructure, Data Infrastructure, AI & Analytics, Technology
Barb Darrow Jan 22, 2015 (Jun 11, 2020) -- Startups, check the fine print

In AWS cloud contracts (as in life), read before signing

Lawyers say never to sign (or click on) anything without reading it first, but that rule typically goes out the window when…

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Cloud & Infrastructure, Technology
Barb Darrow Jan 22, 2015 (Jun 11, 2020) -- Onward, onward

AWS boosted cloud reliability in 2014, new stats show

Amazon Web Services is not an organization that rests on its laurels. New stats compiled by CloudEndure show that AWS, the public cloud market leader,…

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Cloud & Infrastructure
Barb Darrow Jan 13, 2015 (Jun 11, 2020) -- Azure taps Edgecast for video

Looks like Microsoft is outsourcing a part of its cloud

CDN expert Dan Rayburn reported Monday that Microsoft is deep-sixing its home-grown content delivery network capabilities and is instead turning to Verizon EdgeCast to deliver…

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Cloud & Infrastructure
Barb Darrow Jan 12, 2015 (Jun 11, 2020) -- Now Amazon really means it

Big, new AWS C4 instances are here — for real

Amazon Web Services pre-announced big, new C4 compute instances in November at AWS Re:invent, apparently re-announced them on January 2 in a disappearing…

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Cloud & Infrastructure
Barb Darrow Jan 8, 2015 (Jun 11, 2020) -- Let no crisis go to waste

Cloud upgrades no big deal if deployment is done right

When Verizon said it might shutter its new Verizon Cloud for 48 hours this weekend for a major upgrade, users were shocked. Some…

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Cloud & Infrastructure
Barb Darrow Jan 8, 2015 (Jun 11, 2020) -- Bolstering public cloud

Microsoft unveils Azure Key Vault and big strong servers

Microsoft caused a bit of a stir in October when it announced plans for big cloud servers with up to 32 cores, 450…

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Cloud & Infrastructure
Barb Darrow Jan 7, 2015 (Jun 11, 2020) -- Not a huge shocker

Amazon Web Services tops list of most reliable public clouds

Google and Microsoft now host public clouds meant to give Amazon Web Services a run for its money, but they still have…

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Cloud & Infrastructure, Technology
Barb Darrow Jan 2, 2015 (Jun 11, 2020) -- Bezos holdings fell $7.4B

After rough year for Amazon stock, will AWS feel the pain?

People who watch Amazon Web Services tend to be cloud oriented and don’t necessarily pay a ton of attention to the Amazon Inc.…

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Cloud & Infrastructure, Technology
Barb Darrow Dec 28, 2014 (Jun 11, 2020) -- The week (er year) in cloud

Yup, 2014 was a big year in cloud

2014 was the year in which both Microsoft and Google got serious about their public cloud options and taking on Amazon Web…

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Cloud & Infrastructure, Technology
Steve Herrod, General Catalyst Partners Dec 20, 2014 (Jun 11, 2020) -- Soothsayer says...

Where is enterprise infrastructure headed in 2015?

The enterprise industry is another year older … and hopefully somewhat wiser. Here’s what enterprise watchers should expect to see in 2015.…

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Cloud & Infrastructure, Technology
Barb Darrow Dec 11, 2014 (Jun 11, 2020) -- Podcast

Mo’ money, mo’ data, mo’ cloud on the Structure Show

  If you want an informed opinion on the state of the cloud and the relative merits of the players, Sebastian Stadil’s…

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Cloud & Infrastructure
Barb Darrow Nov 18, 2014 (Jun 11, 2020) -- Blog Post

Microsoft Azure afflicted again

Microsoft Azure is having troubles again, the company acknowledged Tuesday night. According to a status update, Azure's Traffic Manager was experiencing "a multi-region partial performance degradation."…

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Cloud & Infrastructure
Barb Darrow Nov 16, 2014 (Jun 11, 2020) -- Blog Post

Cloud computing makes for some strange bedfellows

OpenStack backer Rackspace jumps on Azure bandwagon, Microsoft ally Apprenda embraces Amazon Web Serivces. What's going on here? The week in cloud.…

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Cloud & Infrastructure
Barb Darrow Nov 9, 2014 (Jun 11, 2020) -- Blog Post

5 things to look for at AWS Re:Invent 2014

Last week it was Google's turn to strut its cloud stuff; this week it's all about Amazon Web Services at AWS Re:Invent in Las Vegas.…

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Cloud & Infrastructure, Technology
Barb Darrow Oct 31, 2014 (Jun 11, 2020) -- Blog Post

Just how big is Amazon Web Services’ lead? It depends on whom you ask

Amazon Web Services, which debuted in 2006, has a huge lead in public cloud. But it's unclear how long that lead will last, as Microsoft and Google gear up their IaaS efforts.…

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