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Report: IT Focused on Internal Clouds, Skeptical About Public Cloud Savings
While clouds are on every enterprise’s horizon, they’re mostly internal clouds. That’s a key finding in an annual study conducted by 451 Research about the state of cloud computing for businesses. The 2013 Cloud Computing Outlook, from TheInfoPro service of IT research firm 451 Research, found that 47 percent
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Microsoft Launches Private Cloud Tools for Windows Server 2012
Microsoft is continuing its efforts to expand the breadth of its cloud offerings. Last month, the company enhanced Azure with several features, most notably, Linux support. Now Microsoft has its sights set on the private web.
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Microsoft Azure Global Outage Continues
If you are a current user of Microsoft's Azure, the infrastructure and software as a service cloud technology, you already know of the worldwide outage that occurred for over eight hours on the Windows Azure Service Management Component. The glitch that brought the system down began at 1:45 a.m.
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Rackspace Tests OpenStack to Prepare for Expansion
Rackspace has taken the next step in getting two-year old open source cloud, OpenStack, ready for prime time. This week the hosting giant will begin stress-testing its OpenStack implementation by running tens of thousands of instances.
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Amazon's Simple Workflow to Get the Cloud Processes Flowing
Having leaked its own information a couple of weeks back, Amazon has now officially unveiled Simple Workflow (SWF) to control business apps and processes across the cloud and your own systems.
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Amazon Accidentally Leaks AWS Workflow Offering
Amazon had a content management snafu yesterday, accidentally revealing an as of yet unannounced workflow service for Amazon Web Services (AWS). Amazon quickly removed the content, but not before observers took note of the new goodie. Going with the Flow on AWS AWS dominates the public cloud market and constantly
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HP Cloud Services (Beta) Open for Business
It's been described as the "Wild West of Cloud Computing" -- no slick "urban" services like Amazon provides, but HP is in beta with its cloud services, and the time is ripe to make your land grab with free real estate (for now) hosted by the world's second-largest PC maker,
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Open Source Cloud Tier 3 Enters Market, Competes with Azure
Microsoft has been taking big steps to make its cloud platform, Windows Azure, more attractive. Just last week the company announced support for several popular open source development tools including Node.js and Hadoop.
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Gartner Releases First Public Infrustructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) Magic Quadrant
Are you curious how the multitudes of public infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) providers stack up? Thanks to Gartner, there is no longer a need to wonder. The analyst firm has released its first magic quadrant for the public IaaS market. The IaaS Market The IaaS market has been growing rapidly.
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Microsoft Azure Embraces Open Source Technologies
Microsoft is taking big strides to make its Azure cloud service more attractive. The company has announced several updates to the platform aimed at improving its usability. The company, which has long been criticized for a less-than-friendly stance on open source, is continuing to show that giants can change.
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Is an Open Source Cloud Smackdown Coming?
Cloud adoption and open source were just a few years ago considered risky, cutting-edge approaches only pursued by the most confident (or poor) of technology departments. Times have changed. Even the federal government -- definitely not known for its propensity to be early adopters -- has embraced both.
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Amazon Direct Connect: Private, Dedicated Connection to AWS Cloud
Amazon Web Services (news, site ) is taking more even more steps to increase its competitiveness in the enterprise market. The company announced three new offerings that should make AWS cloud products even more attractive to enterprise buyers.
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