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Ken Oestreich (@Fountnhead)
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- Cloud and IT marketer; Citrix, EMC, Egenera, Cassatt, Sun. EE by training, wanabe physicist. Husband to @monicafo +2 munchkins. Opinions herein my own.
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- SF Bay Area
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- http://fountnhead.blogspot.com
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A photo Google released last week showing servers in one of its facilities. Click for larger version of the image. (Photo: Google)
It’s been a while since we’ve had a good look at the inner realms of a Google data center, where the company houses its servers. Oh sure, we’ve seen networking rooms, chillers and piping and
Amazon.com (AMZN) is likely to spin off its cloud computing arm, Amazon Web Services, says Oppenheimer.In a report on the cloud industry released Monday, Oppenheimer analyst Tim Horan says Amazon's cloud computing unit would be better off as a publicly traded subsidiary."We believe an ultimate spinoff of AWS is inevitable due to its channel conflicts and the need to gain scale," Horan wrote. " We see the business as extremely valuable on a stand-alone basis, possibly even operating as a REIT (real estate investment trust)."To date, public cloud users, including online retailers, have had few alternatives when utilizing the cloud, other than to
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