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VMware Hybrid Cloud Plans: Time For Amazon Answer

May 20, 2013 09:40 AM

VMware doesn't like the degree to which customers and partners have been implementing cloud using its products, and it's taking matters into its own hands. Will it truly compete with Amazon?

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Tale Of 2 ServiceNow Users: Problem Solvers

May 17, 2013 10:00 AM

ServiceNow users share their experience with the SaaS offering. One uses IT service management for compliance and IT automation; the other has moved beyond IT into business services.

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ServiceNow Revamp Stars Cloud Provisioning

May 15, 2013 09:55 AM

Cloud Provisioning acts as a virtual machine orchestrator for VMware and Amazon Web Services cloud environments.

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Amazon To Cloud Rivals: Try To Catch Us

May 14, 2013 12:22 PM

Amazon Web Services VP Adam Selipsky sits down to talk about Amazon.com's DNA and its low-margin approach to cloud services vs. competitors.

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3M Uses Azure For Image Analysis Service

May 13, 2013 09:30 AM

3M Manager Bill Smyth wanted to launch a new business without plunging into the company's capital budget allocation process. So he used Microsoft's Azure cloud services.

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Why IT Is Struggling To Build Private Clouds

May 13, 2013 08:00 AM

Think private clouds offer all the flexibility and none of the risk? IT is missing out if it doesn’t prepare for public cloud use.

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Google's Cloud Drops Custom Linux For Debian

May 11, 2013 09:06 AM

Google cloud workloads have had to use Google's customized version of Linux. Now, Google is moving to a more standard form: Debian Linux.

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Amazon Expands Private Cloud-Like Options

May 10, 2013 09:40 AM

Amazon Web Services offers more customers Direct Connect private-line access to AWS data centers. Move shows how public clouds can become direct extensions of enterprise data centers.

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Boundary Tracks App Performance, Even In AWS

May 09, 2013 09:15 AM

Monitoring service uses an analytics engine to detect changes in application performance. It tracks apps inside the data center and those using cloud providers such as Amazon Web Services.

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VMware Users Gain Bluelock Recovery Option

May 08, 2013 09:29 AM

As VMware prepares for the public cloud market, compatible suppliers like Bluelock add services.

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BMC To Go Private: Echoes of Dell

May 07, 2013 09:16 AM

Bain Capital and three others will buy management tool vendor BMC, in a move that parallels Dell's effort to go private. Look for focus on cloud and self-service IT tools.

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Dell Buys Enstratius, Extends Cloud Reach

May 06, 2013 05:36 PM

Dell buys Enstratius to gain ability to deploy workloads to 23 major and secondary cloud service suppliers.

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Facebook's Frank Frankovsky: Open Compute Update

May 06, 2013 10:18 AM

Facebook's hardware design chief previews his Interop keynote by explaining why he decided to open source the company's data center designs.

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Eucalyptus Adds Netflix Tools, Amazon Options

May 02, 2013 09:52 AM

Eucalyptus builds Netflix tools into the upcoming 3.3 release of its software for building an Amazon-compatible private cloud.

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Amazon Cloud Revenue Mystery Persists

May 01, 2013 09:46 AM

Will AWS cloud revenues soon stop appearing under Amazon's "other" column? And are they large enough to finance AWS's future on their own?

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Cloud Survey Has Warning For Amazon

April 30, 2013 09:33 AM

RightScale's State of the Cloud survey finds Amazon the public cloud leader -- but IT is looking to Rackspace, Google and Microsoft for added testing and experiments.

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VMware Adds Interoperability With Ubuntu OpenStack Cloud

April 18, 2013 09:51 AM

The next Ubuntu release, coming soon, will include VMware plug-ins for the Quantum networking platform in OpenStack.

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Intel Buys Mashery For API Management Expansion

April 18, 2013 09:32 AM

Mashery manages APIs for Aetna, Best Buy and The New York Times.

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Cloudscaling Updates OpenStack, Supports Amazon APIs

April 17, 2013 09:54 AM

Aggressive OpenStack vendor partners with Juniper for virtual networking, declares Amazon "de facto standard."

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Red Hat Enters OpenStack Rodeo

April 17, 2013 09:19 AM

Red Hat Distribution OpenStack (RDO) comes in free and commercially-supported versions for private cloud builders.

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Bio

Charles Babcock is an editor-at-large for InformationWeek, having joined the publication in 2003. He is the former editor-in-chief of Digital News, former software editor of Computerworld and former technology editor of Interactive Week. He is a graduate of Syracuse University where he obtained a bachelor's degree in journalism.

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Articles

VMware Hybrid Cloud Plans: Time For Amazon Answer

Tale Of 2 ServiceNow Users: Problem Solvers

ServiceNow Revamp Stars Cloud Provisioning

Amazon To Cloud Rivals: Try To Catch Us

3M Uses Azure For Image Analysis Service

Why IT Is Struggling To Build Private Clouds

Google's Cloud Drops Custom Linux For Debian

Amazon Expands Private Cloud-Like Options

Boundary Tracks App Performance, Even In AWS

VMware Users Gain Bluelock Recovery Option

BMC To Go Private: Echoes of Dell

Dell Buys Enstratius, Extends Cloud Reach

Facebook's Frank Frankovsky: Open Compute Update

Eucalyptus Adds Netflix Tools, Amazon Options

Amazon Cloud Revenue Mystery Persists

Cloud Survey Has Warning For Amazon

VMware Adds Interoperability With Ubuntu OpenStack Cloud

Intel Buys Mashery For API Management Expansion

Cloudscaling Updates OpenStack, Supports Amazon APIs

Red Hat Enters OpenStack Rodeo

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