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Treat Your Cloud Like a Piece of Software, Part 1: Building Clouds that are Modular, Versioned, and Frequently Changed

At this point, most IT leaders understand the benefits of Infrastructure-as-code. But many still expect that migrating to the cloud will rid them of scalability issues, IT debt and convoluted system logic – forever. Continue reading

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Facebook Data Centers: Huge Scale at Low Power Density

When Facebook was launching the first data center it designed and built on its own, the first of now several Facebook data centers in rural Oregon, Jason Taylor, the company’s VP of infrastructure, expected at least a little fallout from the new power distribution design that was deployed there. Continue reading

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Out of the Office: WP Engine Founder Jason Cohen on Why Enterprises Love WordPress

The WHIR visited WP Engine in its office in downtown Austin and sat down with founder Jason Cohen to talk about why enterprises have fallen for WordPress, how marketers have taken over the driver’s seat of tech decisions, and what’s next for hosting, even if hosting providers aren’t acting fast enough. Continue reading

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Rackspace OnMetal Cloud Server Updates Target Performance, Security

Rackspace has updated its OnMetal Cloud Server line this week to deliver enhanced connectivity and performance to customers with intensive data processing, compute power, and quick scaling and deployment needs. Continue reading

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Clouds Over Seattle? Amazon and Microsoft Don’t Own the Sky

What kind of cloud are SMBs seeking – and what do they deserve? Continue reading

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