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• Consultancy launches DIY cloud, OpenStack-style

  Cloud consultancy Mirantis today released a series of support options to help customers launch test or full-scale deployments of OpenStack-powered clouds.

• Microsoft announces "me too" Cloud price drop for Azure

  Microsoft is the latest to drop the price of its Cloud computing services, following two price cuts each by Google and Amazon Web Services.

• Windows shops now more welcome in Amazon cloud

  Amazon Web Services has announced support for a handful of Windows Server applications in its public cloud, the company's latest move to attract enterprise IT shops.

• What's Amazon's enterprise strategy for the cloud?

  Roaming the floor of Amazon Web Services' first user conference last week, it didn't look like a traditional tech show. Many of the 6,000 attendees were with startups or midsize businesses looking to learn more about AWS services or the public cloud.

• Google, Microsoft watching Amazon's cloud moves

  Among the 6,000 attendees of Amazon Web Services' first user conference were representatives from competing cloud companies Google and Microsoft. But these companies didn't have big booths and announcements like many other companies at the show. In fact, they were being a bit stealthy.

• Tech pros getting MBAs: Necessary or not?

  Earning an MBA can help tech pros to bridge the gap between business and IT, but it's no guarantee of career success, nor does it automatically translate into a bigger salary.

• Amazon, Microsoft and Google targeted by cloud provider Joyent

  Joyent may be the biggest cloud provider you haven't heard of.

• RightScale joins OpenStack, supports Rackspace's open cloud

  RightScale, whose management platform that acts as an integrator for companies using public cloud resources, today announced its official support for the OpenStack project, and announced it will support customer deployments into Rackspace's OpenStack-powered cloud.

• Rackspace offering lets users build customized virtual networks

  Rackspace says it is now offering customers the ability to create customized virtual networks in a public cloud, using software defined networking-like capabilities.

• Moving to the cloud in 2012? Look out for these pitfalls

  Businesses that want to take advantage of the maturing cloud marketplace in 2012 can learn from some common mistakes others have made when moving to infrastructure- and platform-as-a-service offerings, experts said.

• RackConnect gets security, automation features

  Rackspace is making some updates to RackConnect, an offering designed to let businesses securely connect and run applications across private and public cloud services.

• Rackspace to offer support for clouds in other data centers

  Rackspace for the first time plans to extend its support services to OpenStack cloud implementations that reside within the walls of an enterprise or third-party commercial data centers, the company announced Monday.

• The OpenStack juggernaut

  The OpenStack collaborative industry effort to build an <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/subnets/opensource/">open source</a> cloud platform is to be applauded for the remarkable gains it has achieved in a short amount of time. Founded by Rackspace Hosting and NASA in July last year, the organization is now backed by 120 companies, including the likes of HP, Dell, Intel and <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/subnets/cisco/">Cisco</a>, and has already issued four major code releases, the last of which, Diablo, just came out last month and has already been downloaded 50,000 times.

• Microsoft Windows Azure tops Cloud speed tests

  Microsoft’s Windows Azure has come out on top in a year’s worth of Cloud speed tests, beating Amazon EC2, Google App Engine, Rackspace and 20 others.

• OpenStack's secret weapon is modularity

  Although somewhat late to the market for cloud computing infrastructure, OpenStack enjoys an advantage over other cloud stacks in that it has a modular architecture, said one of the first developers of the open-source cloud software.