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Enterprise Cloud Services
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  •  OpenStack grows up: But is it grown up enough for enterprise IT?
  •  Cloud's worst-case scenario: What to do if your provider goes belly up
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Top Blog Posts
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    Alan Shimel

    Companies looking to DevOps to automate and save time

    Survey results confirm that time constraints force us to automate.

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    Application Performance = Response Time

    Using Apdex to measure and ensure user satisfaction

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    Mark Bowker

    Microsoft Cloud OS Network Strengthens Weak Link

    Microsoft's Cloud OS strategy includes Windows Azure, on premise Windows Server with Azure pack and service providers running on the Microsoft platform

  • Tom Henderson
    Tom Henderson

    Windows Server 8: The Microsoft Server Fork

    There's an argument to say that Windows Server is now Microsoft Server with Optional Windows. If it's what Microsoft has described, it's a hard left turn for Microsoft

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Cloud Case Studies
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Cloud News

  • SDN in action: Pertino service lets users turn up a network without buying a switch, router or server

    Pertino Networks wants to make accessing networking services just as easy as spinning up and using...

  • GoGrid wants to be your open source alternative to Amazon's cloud databases

    Amazon Web Services is a juggernaut in the infrastructure as a service market, but GoGrid, a...

  • How DevOps Can Accelerate the Cloud Application Lifecycle

    In the past, infrastructure deployment and application updates both slowed the development...

  • Cloud optimization tools go hybrid

    One of the hottest categories of tools to help manage your cloud computing deployment has been...

  • Oracle software on Microsoft Azure gets a general availability date

    Oracle's database, WebLogic application server and Java programming language will soon be...

  • Amazon Web Service now offers R on demand

    Amazon Web Services now offers a hosted version of the R programming language, providing an easy...

  • Rackspace CEO Napier retires

    Rackspace announced Monday that CEO Lanham Napier is retiring and that co-founder and Executive...

  • The Skyfence security gateway monitors and protects cloud apps

    As companies move more of their applications to the cloud, they need a new enforcement point to...

  • HCM software is 'all about the people,' Larry Ellison says

    Oracle CEO Larry Ellison relied on a time-tested bromide to sell a conference crowd on the...

  • 5 things to consider when weighing public cloud against private cloud

    Private clouds address a prevalent set of challenges and issues that public clouds cannot and can...

  • Verizon denies throttling Amazon's cloud, Netflix services

    Verizon is denying a charge leveled by a security expert – and seemingly acknowledged by its own...

  • 23 Signs Your Cloud Project May Be in Trouble

    On many an old map, unknown territories were marked, 'Here be dragons!' Sure, it's...

  • Microsoft's Scott Guthrie takes over Satya Nadella's previous role

    Microsoft technologist Scott Guthrie has been appointed to lead the company's cloud and...

  • What new CEO Nadella's promotion means for Microsoft's cloud

    Microsoft just appointed its cloud guy to be the company's next CEO. Satya Nadella has impressively...

  • Cloud availability trumps security concerns when it comes to Shadow IT

    As pressure mounts to deliver value with ever-increasing speed, lines of business (LOB) are often...

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Enterprise Cloud Services
  • Gartner: Amazon is still the public cloud's leader by a long shot
  • OpenStack grows up: But is it grown up enough for enterprise IT?
  • Cloud's worst-case scenario: What to do if your provider goes belly up
  • Why Netflix is one of the most important cloud computing companies
  • THE ARCHIVE: Enterprise Cloud Services

 

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