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Rackspace Coming to a Full Circle with OpenStack Cloud Launch
Monday was a big day for Rackspace . The web host is one of the founders of OpenStack, an open cloud platform project that it collaborated on with NASA and a few others two…
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HP: webOS won’t Run on Existing Devices
Hewlett-Packard bought out the struggling Palm, and its webOS operating system, in 2010 with the goal of entering the highly-competitive mobile market. The hardware giant put a lot of weight behind webOS under the…
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As Promised, NetFlix Open Sources Chaos Monkey
Content streaming and movie rental service Netflix utilizes cloud computing to power its core operations. In fact, the bulk of Netflix’s infrastructure is cloud-based, and it is one of Amazon Web Services’ (AWS) largest customers. Netflix…
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Enterprise Migration to the Cloud Still Has a Long Way to Go
The public cloud is picking up momentum, but many large enterprises are still hesitant about jumping aboard the public “as-a-service” bandwagon. Dan Lamorena, a director for Symantec’s storage and availability management group, explained, “You may…
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Gartner Raises 2012 Cloud Spending Forecast
Citing a “stabilized” outlook, research firm Gartner expects enterprises to spend 3 percent more on IT, a slight increase from the 2.5 percent growth it noted in a report published earlier this year. Gartner estimates…
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Azure Outage Caused by Networking Glitch, GM Says
Microsoft is one of the latest companies trying to clean up reputation damage inflicted by an outage of its cloud services. Mike Neil, the general manager in charge of Microsoft’s Windows Azure, wrote a…
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appMobi Launches Free HTML5 Packaging Service
appMobi announced openBuild this week, a free cloud service that makes it easier for HTML5 developers to optimize their apps for all the different app stores out there. While HTML5 may be able to…
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Hewlett-Packard Goes All-Flash with 3PAR
Hardware giant Hewlett-Packard announced a new commitment to SSD storage with a new 3PAR configuration, P10000. This variation of the single tier storage array runs on SSDs, and as a result offers several advantages…
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Overdue SAP Trial Invites Developers to Play in their Ecosystem
Business intelligence kingpin SAP is looking to create a mobile ecosystem, and this week the company announced a new initiative that aims to incentivize developers who might be interesting in joining the program. SAP…
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Mobile Big in Travel, and Marketers Got It (Mostly) Right
Mobile ad network operator Millennial Media released its latest SMART report, outlining advertising trends in the travel industry – one of the fastest growing verticals in this space. The travel industry is currently the…