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Eucalpytus: Bought. Metacloud: Bought. Enovance: Bought. What does the future hold for Cloudscaling, Piston Cloud, Mirantis et al? Read more »
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Amazon Web Services (AWS) is a collection of remote computing services (also called web services) that together make up a cloud computing platform, offered over the Internet by Amazon.com. The most central and well-known of these services are Amazon EC2 and Amazon S3. The service is advertised as providing a large computing capacity (potentially many servers) much faster and cheaper than building a physical server farm.
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Red Hat needed to fill the mobile app gap in its portfolio, so it’s buying FeedHenry to add its mobile smarts to OpenShift. Read more »
Server Density, which already monitors servers in AWS, Rackspace and IBM SoftLayer clouds, now adds Google to the mix as the search giant turns up the heat on partner recruitment. Read more »
Rackspace took itself off the block, but don’t expect the acquisitions (and acqui-hires) in cloud to stop. Latest example: Cisco’s announced plans to buy OpenStack player Metacloud. Read more »
Looks like there may be a data center building boom coming in Germany as Microsoft reportedly weighs a German-only facility. Read more »
Company’s goal is to bring public cloud flexibility to private cloud. It’s not there yet, but more flexibility is coming. Read more »
The cloud monitoring company will use new funding to delve even deeper into customer cloud deployments and optimize them. Read more »
The week in cloud: If you don’t like the cloud status quo, hold on, a new attraction will be out in a second. In the center ring this week, Google rolling… Read more »
On this week’s Structure Show: Marten Mickos, Martin Fink and Bill Hilf talk about HP’s acquisition of Eucalyptus and what it means to HP’s OpenStack-focused clouds. Read more »
Now that the deal’s done, here comes the nitty gritty. Did HP buy Eucalyptus to get the keys to the Amazon Web Services kingdom? Or is it an aqui-hire? Read more »