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Rackspace: AWS is Clouding the Picture on Dedicated Servers.

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That’s the message today from Rackspace Chief Technology Officer John Engates, who says recent price cuts on dedicated virtual machine instances from rival Amazon Web Services have led to confusion about “dedicated” products. Engates says the current discussion is conflating apples and oranges. Silicon Valley.

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Should the OpenStack Community Embrace Amazon & Google?

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Or should it make it easier to shift OpenStack clouds to Amazon Web Services and Google Compute Engine for companies that want to use both approaches in a hybrid infrastructure? Disaster Recovery. Should the OpenStack community focus on creating an open source alternative to Amazon and Google? Data Center Strategies.

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Latest AWS Price Cuts Target the Enterprise - and the Competition.

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Amazon Web Services announced it is dropping the prices of dedicated instances on EC2 cloud computing by up to 80 percent. Comparing cloud prices is often like comparing apples to oranges; However, these particular cuts appear to be very strategically driven. Disaster Recovery. By: Jason Verge July 10th, 2013.