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• The Mobile Traffic Explosion and its Impact

  February 7th, 2011 : Olafur Ingthorsson

  Analysts expect incredible growth in mobile data traffic in coming years. What will this mean for mobile network providers, their networks and their pricing? Read More

• CSC Brings Its Cloud to Your Premises

  February 3rd, 2011 : Rich Miller

  CSC today announced its BizCloud, which can deliver an on-premises version of CSC's CloudCompute service in a customer data center within 10 weeks. CSC is among the providers rolling out services that bring a turn-key cloud to the customer premises. Read More

• Time Warner Cable Buys NaviSite for $230 Million

  February 1st, 2011 : Rich Miller

  The cloud computing buyout binge blitz is on. Time Warner Cable (TWC) will acquire managed hosting and cloud services provider NaviSite (NAVI) for $230 million, marking the second deal in a week in which a major network operator has bought a cloud service provider. Read More

• Cloud News: Netuitive, Wyse, Virtela

  February 1st, 2011 : John Rath

  Netuitive announces "predictive analytics" for the cloud, Exodus alum Jagadeesh joins Virtela, Wyse Technology introduces thin client for VDI. Read More

• The Cloud Arms Race: Is it Better to Build or Buy?

  January 31st, 2011 : Rich Miller

  As cloud computing emerges as a key business battleground, a secure platform and global data center network have become the table stakes. Some companies hoping to make big bets on the cloud are finding they'll need to buy their way in. Read More

• Roundup: Hardcore, Internap, Platform, Telecity

  January 31st, 2011 : John Rath

  Sun co-founder Scott McNealy to advise "liquid blade" maker Hardcore Computer, Internap CDN delivers content for Sundance Festival, new cloud management release by Platform Computing, Telecity honored for green Paris data center. Read More

• Amazon S3 Cloud Stores 262 Billion Objects

  January 30th, 2011 : Rich Miller

  How big is Amazon's cloud? It's huge, and getting huger. Amazon Web Services' S3 cloud storage service housed 262 billion objects at year-end of 2010, more than doubling in size from 102 billion objects. Read More

• Browser Advances Key to Mobile Cloud Adoption

  January 27th, 2011 : Olafur Ingthorsson

  To support mobile cloud computing, there is an increasing effort to develop better mobile browsers that closely imitate the execution and user experience of natively-installed applications. Read More

• Cloud News: Gartner, Brocade, Joyent, Amazon

  January 26th, 2011 : John Rath

  Gartner says cloud is top CIO priority, Brocade (BRCD) teams with Dell and VMware on private clouds, Joyent selected by GuardTime, building an HPC cluster with Amazon Web Services. Read More

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