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Investors were once tripping over themselves to get into a hot technology called OpenStack. What happened?
Originally developed by NASA and Rackspace Hosting, OpenStack was supposed to let anybody, anywhere…
Matt Weinberger
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In A Dangerous Sign For VMware, PayPal Chooses Rival OpenStack
Initially, PayPal is replacing VMware on about 10,000 computer servers. Those servers will go live …
Julie Bort
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Suddenly, This Founder Has Become A Key Soldier In An $80 Billion Computing Battle
Cloud computing is turning into a modern-day version of the race to build the railroads. Back in th…
Julie Bort
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IBM Just Threw What Could Be A Knockout Punch At VMware
Cloud computing involves delivering computing power, storage, and other resources over the Internet…
Julie Bort
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Why cloud computing leaders must hang together or hang separately
Every vendor was to be free to build the product that they wanted, for the niches they wanted to se…
Matt Weinberger
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VMware Says PayPal Is NOT Ditching Its Software
Our initiative with OpenStack is intended to enable agility, innovation and choice. We’re not inter…
Julie Bort
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Here's the weird part of Intel's $100 million investment in cloud company Mirantis
Including this round, Mirantis has now sort-of-raised $220 million total. This includes a massive $…
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Google's Diane Greene is on the verge of scoring a huge I-told-you-so
That's because, as Business Insider originally reported, a few years ago PayPal quietly made the un…
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In a bad sign for VMware and Red Hat, Volkswagen chooses startup Mirantis
Worse still, this is another case study of a huge company turning to OpenStack to build a private c…
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Mirantis, a startup driving VMware and Red Hat crazy, just bought a 30-person startup for $30 million
Mirantis has raised $220 million total between equity investments and a big joint project with Inte…
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Cisco and IBM each bought a startup in this strange but really important cloud computing market
This juxtaposition became clearer recently when an OpenStack startup called Nebula closed its doors…
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This Rocket Scientist Is Helping Cisco Stick It To VMware-Again
VMware turned Cisco, formerly a close partner, into an enemy last summer when it spent $1.26 billio…
Julie Bort
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Microsoft, Google, and Amazon haven't won the cloud wars yet
But OpenStack's real strength is in providing the tools for even smaller vendors to build their clo…
Matt Weinberger
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Amazon claims another victim as Rackspace finally goes private in a $4.3 billion deal
And last fall, it doubled down and fired up a similar partnership with, of all competitors, Amazon.…
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Amazon is about to announce a deal that should terrify Microsoft
Such a thing on AWS would have been unthinkable just a few short years ago. Microsoft wants to be t…
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IBM, EMC, And Others Are All Trying To Buy The Same $2 Billion Cloud-Computing Company
EMC most likely wants this company to boost its brand new cloud-computing initiative. EMC owns a ma…
Julie Bort
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This Cloud Computing Vendor Is Helping Particle Physicists Unlock The Universe's Mysteries
"Research is not something we’ve targeted as a company yet — we were more focused on pure commercia…
Kevin McLaughlin
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Joyent Is About To Replace Its CEO (Again) With An Executive Poached From Cisco
Still this is another round of change at the 10-year-old company. Wasik had been with Joyent for ab…
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A promising startup founded by former Cisco stars just called it quits
Back in 2011, it was part of a market taking on Cisco loaded with hot startups being acquired as so…
Julie Bort
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You should be terrified that Amazon is going to eat your industry, but there's a secret to surviving it, says a guy who experienced it
During that time, he watched Amazon's fledgling cloud computing business rise in power. By 2014, th…