If you need proof that cloud deployment stories can touch off religious disputes, my recent report about @Walmartlabs deploying 100K cores of OpenStack to run the retail giant’s e-commerce operations is Exhibit A. This is,… Read more »
Customers of Google’s Compute Engine can use the SSD storage to boost the performance of data-processing applications and apps that are attached to heavy duty databases. Read more »
The week in cloud: Amazon Web Services and Rackspace both acknowledged that they needed to re-start a big chunk of their public cloud infrastructure due to a non-disclosed Xen issue. 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 »
The story of the cloud is often told via hardware and code, but behind the shift in IT are people. We found 10 of them who are rethinking infrastructure. Meet our… Read more »