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Inside IBM’s SoftLayer Cloud Build Out
Big companies like to orchestrate their announcements, and it is probably not a coincidence that IBM announced its plan to build out its SoftLayer public cloud just ahead of ...Full Article
Cloud Price War Rages As Microsoft Cuts Azure Storage Prices
Microsoft promised last year it would compete head-to-head with Amazon Web Services for compute and storage capacity on its public cloud, and it has made good on that promise ...Full Article
AWS Cloud Expands Into China, C3 Instances Sell Out
The Amazon Web Services subsidiary of the online retailing giant is expanding its cloud into China, one of the more difficult markets for any IT vendor to crack. China ...Full Article
Dell Pushes Clouds With Red Hat, Microsoft, and Google
Like all IT equipment suppliers, Dell had aspirations of building its own public cloud. But unlike its peers, Dell decided earlier this year to mothball its public cloud and ...Full Article
Server Sales Pinched in Q3 by Hyperscale Datacenters
It is not an easy time to be one of the big incumbents in the server market these days. There is competition on new fronts and an expectation from ...Full Article
Google Compute Engine Gears Up to Take On AWS
Search engine juggernaut Google is taking the beta label off its Compute Engine cloud infrastructure services, taking on Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Windows Azure, IBM SoftLayer, and other public ...Full Article
Amazon Web Services Outgrows And Dwarfs Cloud Rivals
Amazon Web Services had first-mover advantage when it launched its EC2 compute cloud back in March 2006, and that was by no means a guarantee of success. But incumbent ...Full Article
Microsoft to Drive RDMA Into Datacenters and Clouds
Software giant Microsoft has been using InfiniBand networking technology in its Azure cloud for a few years now, and has also been working with Mellanox Technologies to tune up ...Full Article
VMware Defies Competitive Pressures in the Datacenter
The server virtualization gravy train just keeps rolling for VMware. Despite ongoing and large investments in research and development, the company has been able to grow its net income ...Full Article
Natural Gas Datacenter Makes Home on the Range
After three years of land acquisitions, zoning applications, and the attainment of a license to generate its own electricity from the local natural gas supply, the Niobrara Data Center ...Full Article
