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Google Opens Registration for Gigabit Fiber Internet in Austin

This week, Google announced a signup list for 1-gigabit-per-second fiber-to-the-home internet connections in the South and Southeast areas of Austin, Tx., offering internet to individuals and businesses that is at least 100 times faster than non-fiber internet. Continue reading

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Heroku Launches Performance Dynos in Europe for Improved Latency, Performance

Web app platform Heroku announced on Thursday the general availability of Performance Dynos in Europe, which will give its European customers more options and reduce latency for international end users. Continue reading

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IBM Wins $1.25B Cloud Contract with London-Based PR Firm WPP

IBM has agreed to a new strategic partnership with London-based advertising and public relations firm WPP which includes a seven year, $1.25 billion cloud services contract. IBM will provide a service delivery and technology platform which will be run on and managed within a global hybrid cloud infrastructure. Continue reading

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Dealing with Storage Challenges in a Virtualized World

In an increasingly virtualized world, spinning disks are reaching the end of their usefulness, but there are more ways that traditional storage is failing new virtualized workloads. Continue reading

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Mirantis Launches Free Hosted OpenStack Tier for New Cloud Developers

Mirantis, a provider of OpenStack software, training and support, has released a new Developer Edition of Mirantis OpenStack Express, which offers a starting point for new OpenStack cloud developers. Continue reading

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