The week in cloud: Amazon has said that live migration would not have averted last month’s cloud reboots. But folks are betting it’s working on the technology just the same. Read more »
Both companies said they’ve had to be cagey about the Xen vulnerability until now, but offered a bit more information about the patching process and — in Rackspace’s case — an… Read more »
IBM SoftLayer is addressing the same Xen hypervisor vulnerability that sparked reboots by Amazon Web Services and Rackspace — but it’s doing so days later. Read more »
IBM SoftLayer’s hybrid bare-metal/cloud infrastructure and free internal networking wins some converts, but it still has a long way to go in the AWS-obsessed world of startups. 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 »
The week in cloud: Structure 2014 was abuzz about the impact of NSA spy-gate on cloud adoption; if there’s enough business to sustain umpteen-different providers; and whether security concerns will strangle… Read more »
AWS, Google, Microsoft et al. have a huge appetite for unique IP addresses, but except for Amazon’s ELB, they don’t support IPv6. Expect that to change in the near future. Read more »