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Rackspace’s New President Talks Customer Obsession, AWS Cloud, and Plans for 2017

A veteran with Rackspace, newly appointed president Jeff Cotten has a lot to say about the cloud and where it’s going. Continue reading

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Panzura Raises $32M to Make Cloud Storage Feel Like On-Prem NAS

Panzura, a nine-year-old Silicon Valley company whose technology makes it easier for companies to combine storage in their own data centers with enterprise cloud storage services by the likes of Amazon, Microsoft, and Google, has closed a $32 million funding round led by private-equity investor Matrix Partners. Continue reading

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Microsoft Wants to Patent an Underwater Data Center Reef

Microsoft has filed an application to patent an Artificial Reef Datacenter, adding it to the list of applications describing other elements of its underwater cloud. Continue reading

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Google Moves Into Augmented Reality Shopping With BMW, Gap

As virtual and augmented reality technology rapidly improves, analysts predict the retail industry may be one the biggest beneficiaries. Continue reading

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One-Third of AT&T’s Network is Now Virtualized

More than one-third of AT&T’s customer-facing network is now virtualized, which means the company can provision services for that portion of the network as simply as downloading them from an app store instead of buying and installing hardware appliances. Continue reading

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