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This week Rackspace Cloud, in conjunction with the NASA Nebula project, open sourced some of their Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) cloud software. This initiative, dubbed ‘OpenStack#8217...

James Hamilton’s recent MIX’10 presentation on economies of scale for large cloud providers was quite impressive. James “gets it” like few others in the industry. If you...

From our perspective, it looks like Amazon is winning the cloud race. Amazon and Google pioneered the notion of ‘devops‘, where agile practices are applied to merging the disciplines of...

Not long ago Lawson Software CEO Harry Debes predicted the end of software as a service (SaaS) when he said the SaaS market would "collapse" in two years. Fast forward a couple years and the thinking...

The debate over the viability of a private cloud, as an alternative to using a public cloud, raged on well before the announcement of the Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC). What Amazon's...

Rackspace announced a partnership with FathomDB, which combines the cloud computing infrastructure services of the former with the relational database as a service (DaaS) of the later, to offer...

Amazon has added yet another arrow to its quiver of cloud computing services and options with the launch of Amazon EC2 Spot Instances. The new purchasing option is smart for Amazon, as it provides a...

Microsoft will take the wraps off the Windows Azure Platform, its cloud computing platform as a service (PaaS) offering, during their Professional Developers Conference (PDC) this week. Not to be...

Cloud computing in Asia just got a boost with the announced expansion of Amazon Web Services (AWS) into the region in the first half of 2010. Customers will be able to access on-demand "compute and...

Amazon continues to expand its family of cloud computing offerings with the introduction of the Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) with the aim of strengthening the Amazon Web Services (...