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How To Choose A DBaaS For Database Management
Guest author Baron Schwartz, an expert in MySQL, is the founder of VividCortex and the author of “High Performance MySQL.” He has helped build and scale some of the world’s largest web, social, gaming, and mobile properties. The industry is rapidly embracing Database-as-a-Service (DBaaS), cloud offering for companies looking to rent access to digital data […]
Why Your Private Cloud Will Fail
Invest in building infrastructure or invest in building apps. Choose wisely!
OpenStack’s Dirty Little Secret: It Doesn’t Scale
And solving that problem requires software lock-in.
Pigs Fly And VMware Vaults Into The Top-3 OpenStack Vendors
Mirantis’s Boris Renski on why VMware found an unlikely champion.
OpenStack Is Huge In The Open-Source Cloud—But Maybe Not Huge Enough
$1 billion in private-cloud revenue pales next to AWS.
Can We Please Stop Acting Like Public-Cloud Cost Comparisons Matter?
They completely miss the point.
OpenStack Gets A $100M Vote Of Confidence—But Amazon Is Waiting
The Amazon cloud is everywhere.
Why The Internet of Things Has To Be Open Sourced
Developers aren’t going to go for proprietary standards.
A Database David Takes On The Amazon Goliath—Minus The Slingshot
Tesora hopes its OpenStack contributions will give it an edge on Amazon, but this may be wishful thinking at best.
The Open-Source Cloud Takes A Step Toward Simplicity
Mirantis launches the notoriously complicated OpenStack as a turnkey, pay-as-you-go service.
OpenStack Deployments Are Up, And So Is Ubuntu—But Will It Stick?
Ubuntu hopes it can maintain its OpenStack lead against Red Hat.
Red Hat May Be Stacking The Deck Against Its OpenStack Rivals
It may be pulling a Microsoft-style lock-in to promote its own version of OpenStack at the expense of open-source rivals.
HP Wants To Be Your OpenStack Vendor
A billion-dollar investment says HP is getting serious about the cloud.
Opening OpenStack: A New Certification Initiative Challenges Red Hat
A new OpenStack compatibility initiative could open the cloud-software project further—while also possibly undermining Red Hat.
The Enterprise Strikes Back On Open Source Contributions
The future of data is being open sourced by Facebook, Twitter and other Web giants, who are building upon open infrastructure laid by IBM, Red Hat and others.
Red Hat’s Love-Hate Affair With The Cloud
Red Hat’s Linux dominance doesn’t count in the cloud, but that may change soon.
Why Red Hat Needs OpenStack … And AWS
OpenStack needs a leader like Red Hat to succeed, but Red Hat desperately needs OpenStack, as well as AWS. Here’s why.
Why OpenStack Needs Red Hat
OpenStack has a lot going for it, but not leadership. Red Hat may change this.
Can OpenStack Be Saved From Itself?
OpenStack is the leading community-driven cloud technology. Which may be its biggest problem.