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• Rackspace CEO, Lanham Napier, retires

  Rackspace CEO, Lanham Napier, is retiring and that co-founder and executive chairman, Graham Weston, is filling the role for now.

• A10 revamps lineup on multiple fronts

  Application delivery controller manufacturer A10 Networks rolled out new hardware, pricing and connectivity with a range of SDN and cloud services today, in an announcement that serves to underline the company's recent recovery.

• VMware taps its R&D chief for vacant CTO role

  VMware has named Ben Fathi as its CTO, filling a prominent executive position that has been vacant for more than a year.

• Cisco takes TV to the Cloud

  Cisco has extended its Videoscape Internet TV services platform into the Cloud by adopting OpenStack orchestration to allow content providers to offer video "as-a-service."

• As Unix fades away from data centers, it's unclear what's next

  Gartner says that its clients have started planning to migrate from Unix. For some of them, it may take two or three years, and for others, five years. A few may still be running Unix 10 years from now, but nonetheless, Gartner believes the operating system is on a path to insignificance.

• Gartner analyst slams OpenStack, again

  Gartner analyst Allessandro Perilli recently attended his first summit for the open source cloud platform OpenStack and he says the project has a long way to go before it's truly an enterprise-grade platform.

• Verizon cozies up with Cloud Foundry as PaaS market heats up

  Verizon, which just recently launched a major overhaul to its cloud platform, today announced plans to integrate the VMware/EMC-backed Cloud Foundry open source platform as a service (PaaS) initiative into its offering.

• AMD sows the seeds for hybrid CPU/GPU systems before January launch

  AMD's new "Berlin" server APU will bring an innovative technology called HSA, or heterogeneous system architecture, when it launches in early 2014, and the company is already working hard to lay groundwork for its adoption.

• 5 things to watch for at Amazon's Cloud show

  Last year some 6000 attendees trekked out to Las Vegas for the first customer conference of what many consider to be the leading public IaaS Cloud provider: Amazon Web Services. AWS re:Invent 2012 saw the launch of a new data analytics and warehousing product, price drops on its services, and lots of tips and tricks for how to use Amazon's cloud.

• Rightscale launches analytics on top of multi-cloud management tool

  RightScale today came out with new functionality for its cloud management portfolio that helps customers not only control resources from multiple public clouds but also provide analytical insight about how those resources are being used.

• How NeCTAR's OpenStack cloud boosts research collaboration

  The National eResearch Tools and Resources Project (NeCTAR) has used a community cloud platform to help researchers across Australia share data ranging from computer science to marine biology research.

• Yahoo Japan embarks on data centre transformation program

  Yahoo Japan is set to roll out 50,000 virtual machines (VMs) next year as part of its data centre transformation program.

• Cloud news: Amazon targets high-speed graphics; Rackspace boosts VM performance

  Two of the leading Cloud computing providers have announced significant revisions to their on-demand virtual machines, with Rackspace rolling out new higher performing SSD-based VMs, and Amazon Web Services reducing the prices on one class of its VMs and introducing a service for graphics processing.

• ShutterStock uses OpenStack to reduce network latency issues

  Online photo marketplace ShutterStock has used OpenStack software to create a cloud environment which manages several petabytes of digital photos while reducing its network latency issues.

• Cisco puts its unified computing servers into OpenStack clouds

  The top executives leading Cisco's OpenStack efforts today said customers can run the open source cloud computing platform with its Unified Computing System (UCS) and Nexus hardware devices, and that the company will provide advanced support to help customers deploy OpenStack clouds.