IBM Preps SoftLayer Cloud Datacenter In Hong Kong
3/31/2014Hong Kong SoftLayer facility will open April 14 and offer Watson, BlueMix, and other cloud services.
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Charles Babcock is an editor-at-large for InformationWeek and author of Management Strategies for the Cloud Revolution, a McGraw-Hill book. 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. He joined the publication in 2003.
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Hong Kong SoftLayer facility will open April 14 and offer Watson, BlueMix, and other cloud services.
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Google Wins In Amazon Cloud Price Battle
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Amazon Counters Google Cloud Price Cuts
3/27/2014Amazon trotted out a wide range of price cuts to Amazon Web Services products one day after Google made a similar announcement.
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Google Turns Up The Heat On Amazon
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Amazon Smoothes Cloud Workload Shutdowns
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Red Hat's Stubbornness Will Keep OpenShift Alive
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Amazon Prime Increases Price To $99
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Red Hat Adds Microsoft .Net To OpenShift
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DigitalOcean Gets $37.1 Million For Cloud Expansion
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Cloud Crossroads: Which Way PaaS?
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IBM Watson Goes On Silicon Valley Grand Tour
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VMware Pursues Federal Cloud Contracts
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