GigaomCisco hopes 30 new Intercloud partners will build more Cisco-based clouds
On Monday, Cisco added BT, Deutsche Telekom, Equinix to a roster of partners building Cisco-based clouds based on — yes — Cisco hardware. Read more »
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On Monday, Cisco added BT, Deutsche Telekom, Equinix to a roster of partners building Cisco-based clouds based on — yes — Cisco hardware. Read more »
You could make the case for CenturyLink buying Rackspace if you don’t mind that the buyer is riddled with the debt and prospects for the seller aren’t all that rosy. Read more »
A report Sunday said CenturyLink is looking to buy Rackspace to beef up its cloud computing story. No one’s talking, but this isn’t the worst idea in the world. Read more »
Verizon’s promised new cloud infrastructure will go live the first week in September. Like some rivals Verizon will offer base-level infrastructure for one price with additional charges for layered services atop… Read more »
The company pushes beyond its telecom roots but also wields networking expertise to offer what it says is a price-competitive private cloud that can burst to its big public cloud brother. Read more »
Rackspace blazed the trail for OpenStack and offers an array of deployment options from bare metal to private and public OpenStack clouds; but will it find a buyer? Read more »
With CenturyLink’s new managed services deployment model customers can pay for things like Active Directory, RHEL, and SQL Server by the hour. Read more »
The week in cloud: Microsoft Azure makes big strides in cloud and AWS gets more aggressive in the enterprise with new portal for VMware admins. Read more »
Gartner’s closely watched Magic Quadrant for cloud Infrastructure as a Service shows AWS in its usual top slot, but Microsoft makes a strong showing. Read more »
The company will also launch its private OpenStack cloud implementation — complete with dedicated hardware — this week at the OpenStack Summit. Read more »