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Alibaba’s Cloud Arm Set for Centerstage as E-Commerce Plateaus

It’s not the e-commerce business that’ll command the most attention when Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. posts earnings Wednesday. It’s the nascent cloud computing division that investors will scrutinize instead. Continue reading

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Microsoft Unveils Server Design Aimed at Speeding Cloud Setup

The new design will be submitted to the open source Open Compute Project for others to work on and use, while Microsoft itself plans to deploy it in data centers by the middle of next year. Continue reading

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CenturyLink to Buy Level 3 for $34 Billion in Cash, Stock

Level 3 is one of the largest providers used by internet services including Netflix Inc. and Google to route traffic across the web, operations that would bolster CenturyLink’s core offerings to businesses. Continue reading

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Google’s Alphabet Experiment Misses Goal: Keeping Executives

On Tuesday, Craig Barratt, chief executive officer of Alphabet’s Access unit, which runs Google Fiber, announced his departure along with a wave of staff cuts and significant retrenchment of the broadband service’s strategy. Continue reading

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Report: OpenStack Deployments Move Beyond Test and Dev

OpenStack deployments are getting bigger and are being used for all kinds of enterprise workloads, a new study by 451 Research says. Continue reading

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