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Rackspace Beats Wall Street Estimates with Strong Third Quarter Earnings

On the strength of its cloud management and web hosting services, Rackspace quarterly earnings beat analysts’ estimates with an 18.3 percent increase, the company announced at the end of trading Monday. Rackspace also announced that its board has authorized a $500 million buyback over the next two years. Continue reading

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Mirantis Gains $100M in the Largest Series-B Investment Round in Open-Source Software History

Mirantis, which specializes in OpenStack cloud software, has been given $100 million in a Series-B funding round, which will be used to double its engineering investments as well as to accelerate expansion in Europe and Asia-Pacific, hire support engineers, and grow its partner ecosystem. Continue reading

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Standards Organization ISO Takes on Cloud Computing Standards

Given the quality differences in different cloud services and issues of compatibility, ISO, the world’s best known standards body has issued two standards related to cloud computing. Continue reading

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New ‘Juno’ Release of OpenStack Includes Features for Big Data, NFV, Object Storage and More

Today, OpenStack launched its 10th major release, Juno, which includes updates to existing services that increase stability and performance, as well as new features designed to improve cloud computing, storage, identity management, and Big Data applications. Continue reading

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Private OpenStack Cloud Provider Blue Box Given $10M in Series B Funding Round

Blue Box, a cloud startup that aims to deploy private clouds anywhere in the world in under an hour, has completed a $10 Million Series B financing round with investors Voyager Capital and Founders Collective. Continue reading

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