The recent major reboots of cloud-based infrastructure by Amazon and Rackspace has resurfaced the question about cloud instability. Days before the reboot,…
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Holiday shopping guide: Public cloud for SaaS companies
What should a SaaS company put on its wish list for cloud infrastructure? It takes one to know. Here's how Stackdriver looks at the challenge.…
Read MoreRackspace readies OpenStack for prime time
The big hosting provider that, along with NASA, launched the open-source cloud infrastructure project two years ago, will start beta testing the software, running tens of thousands of computing instances as opposed to the hundreds under test now, said John Engates, Rackspace's CTO.…
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Cloudability, which pitched at GigaOM Structure back in June, and launched last month, has raised $1.1 million in seed funding. The company…
Read MoreArchiving our cultural heritage in the cloud
DuraSpace, a not-for-profit consortium of universities, libraries and museums, just launched a SaaS solution to simplify the preservation of digitized cultural objects in…
Read MoreIBM’s SmartCloud for Education: compelling parts, a disjointed whole
IBM recognizes that there is a role for specific solutions that target market segments facing unusual regulatory, legislative or other restrictions. Last…
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Earlier this month, Microsoft announced that customers would no longer be charged to load data into Windows Azure. Amazon followed suit today,…
Read MoreThe challenges of shaping the future of the cloud
Enterprise IT departments struggle when it comes to selecting the best cloud solutions for their needs. All too often, those departments want…
Read MoreWhat Ubuntu’s Move to OpenStack Means for Eucalyptus
This week, the Ubuntu project announced that "future versions of Ubuntu Cloud will use OpenStack as a foundation technology," apparently replacing Eucalyptus as the enabling infrastructure behind Ubuntu's cloud capabilities. Eucalyptus does not (yet) appear to have been dropped completely, and existing deployments will definitely be supported for the next few years. But this is the latest in a series of setbacks for the platform, and it is becoming increasingly unclear whether it has a compelling future.…
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