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Intel Leads $100M Round for OpenStack Cloud Heavyweight Mirantis

Looking to help make OpenStack a more accessible management platform for a much broader number of IT organizations, Mirantis announced it will apply $100 million in additional funding from investors toward making the open source framework much simpler to deploy and manage. Continue reading

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Linux and Windows Servers to Be Cogs in One Data Center OS Wheel

While Mesosphere may or may not become part of Microsoft – that anonymously sourced report hasn’t been denied or confirmed – the two companies are certainly working to blend their technologies. Continue reading

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Why QTS Dished Out $326M on Carpathia Hosting

Scale and breadth of services offered appear to be two of the key attributes a data center provider must have to succeed in today’s market, and it’s both of those things that QTS Realty Trust was after when it acquired competitor Carpathia Hosting in a $326 million deal announced in May. Continue reading

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Project Hosts Launches Azure Application Management Service for Enterprises, Government Agencies

Ahead of SharePoint Fest in Seattle this week, managed cloud services provider Project Hosts has launched an Azure Application Management Service designed for enterprises and US government agencies. Continue reading

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Cisco Delivers Custom Web-Scale Platform to "Cloud Titan"

In an apparent effort to demonstrate to analysts that Cisco is not losing the web-scale data center market to white-box or Taiwanese design manufacturers, its new CEO Chuck Robbins revealed that the company recently designed and delivered a custom high-end networking platform for one of the “cloud titans.” Continue reading

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