Rackspace is going to stop distinguishing between the money it makes from public cloud and what it derives from “dedicated” cloud, a category that encompasses a bunch of options. Well that’s one way to sidestep… Read more »
For those skeptics who still think OpenStack isn’t ready for prime time, here’s a tidbit: @WalmartLabs is now running in excess of 100,000 cores of OpenStack on its compute layer. And that’s growing by the… Read more »
More AWS perks for business users Amazon Web Services has beefed up its identity management and access control capabilities so that businesses can more easily apply permissions to users, groups and… Read more »
Many news cycles have been burned on the debate over whether OpenStack-based cloud providers should or need to support the major Amazon Web Services APIs. Cloudscaling and its co-founder Randy Bias have long advocated that such… Read more »
Pity your private cloud, if you have one. If cloud analysts are to be believed, private cloud is losing ground as public cloud providers — chiefly Amazon Web Services, Google, and… Read more »
There are a couple of seemingly contradictory memes rolling around the deep learning field. One is that you need a truly epic amount of data to… Read more »
Microsoft wants to boost its cloud’s profile among startups so it’s making $500,000 in Azure credits available to Y Combinator-backed companies. The credits start rolling with the Winter 2015 class and will… Read more »
The week in cloud The past few weeks were not great for IBM but they did not bring the bloodbath — 110,000 job cuts or about 26 percent of total headcount — predicted by… Read more »
Server monitoring gets hot SolarWinds, which monitors multi-vendor technologies running in house, last week bought Librato to extend its reach into the cloud. Librato is noted for its ability to watch workloads… Read more »