x86 Cloud Franchise Under Attack
Tilera stuck its low-power Linux-running 64-core processor to Intel and AMD Tuesday in a head-on challenge to the x86’s infrastructure dominance, particularly in Web 2.0 and cloud accounts, where Tilera’s many-core design is supposed to excel at executing their millions of small parallel tasks simultaneously. Way better, it says, than the high-power legacy processors with their minimal …

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How Microsoft’s Azure and cloud services are shaping up
Cloud computing and Azure services will become integral parts of a Microsoft enterprise agreement, the company’s developer and platform evangelist Mark Taylor tells ZDNet UK

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Rackspace to Expand Cloud Services into UK
May 19, 2010 — Web hosting provider Rackspace Hosting announced on Wednesday it plans to bring two cloud infrastructures including SMB public cloud services and VMWare-based enterprise private cloud to the UK by the end of the year.

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Rackspace brings cloud services to the UK
Daniel Robinson, V3.co.uk , Wednesday 19 May 2010 at 12:10:00 UK datacentres to deliver public cloud to SMEs and hybrid offering for enterprises Hosting firm Rackspace is preparing to bring its cloud services into the UK with a Xen-based offering for the SMB market, and hybrid public-private services based on VMware for larger enterprise customers. Due in the fourth quarter of 2010, the services …

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