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| September 25, 2013

Citrix Tuesday updated its cloud computing strategy, saying that its platform --which is based off the Apache CloudStack project -- can span both private on-premises deployments and public clouds and is the only one in the market that takes an application-centric approach to architecting clouds. Citrix officials say that the company's chief competitors, VMware and Amazon Web Services, "pigeon-hole" users into architecting clouds a certain way. VMware is ideal for virtualized legacy applications,...

Amazon | May 01, 2013

Before turning to the world of cloud computing, let's pause to remember the crazy days of the 1970s when the science of the assembly line wasn't well-understood and consumers discovered that each purchase was something of a gamble. This was perhaps most true at the car dealer, where the quality of new cars was so random that buyers began to demand to know the day a car rolled off the assembly line. Cars built on Monday were said to be a bad risk because everyone was hung over, while cars slapped...

Amazon Web Services | July 25, 2013

Amazon Web Services (AWS) filed a complaint Wednesday with the US Federal Claims Court in response to the US Government Accountability Office (GAO) sustaining part of a protest by IBM against the awarding of a CIA cloud computing contract.IBM filed a protest with the GAO in February this year after the CIA awarded a cloud computing contract to AWS reportedly worth roughly $600m.The company challenged the evaluation process which led to AWS initially securing the contract, but in its June 6 rulin...

sdxcentral.com | January 23, 2020

Arista Networks bought SDN vendor Big Switch Networks, according to sources familiar with the deal.The purchase is Arista’s largest acquisition to date, according to a source. It’s also the networking vendor’s third acquisition Arista in 2018 snapped up cloud-managed WiFi firm Mojo Networks and then a month later bought Metamako, a provider of low-latency field programmable gate array (FPGA) products.While Arista ultimately won, Big Switch had a long list of suitors that wanted...