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  • The Nasty Truth Around Public Cloud Ecosystems

    May 6, 2013

    Business
    cloud computing, google, Google Reader, Mongolia, OfficeDrop, rackspace, ReadWrite, Xeround
     

    Recently there have been a few high-profile examples of small cloud providers turning off support for one or another public clouds. First came AppFog who made the mysterious decision to cut off all support for their PaaS running on…

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  • GreenQloud and Xeround Launch Cloud Database on 100% Renewable Energy

    October 29, 2012

    Business
    AWS, cloud computing, Giza Venture Capital, GreenQLoud, Iceland, Information technology, Verne Global, Xeround
     

    A year or two ago a minor storm circled around the cloud community after a report was published questioning the environmental impacts of cloud computing. The report was pretty flawed – it omitted to take into account the generally…

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  • Xeround Rolls out Database as a Service Further

    May 14, 2012

    Business
    AWS, cloud computing, Database, EngineYard, MySQL, PHP, rackspace, Xeround
     

    Xeround, the database as a service offering is today announcing an integration that sees it power MySQL applications running on both AppHarbor’s .Net platform as well as AppFog’s PHP platform. As developers increasingly look to PaaS as the first…

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  • Xeround Offers DBaaS on Rackspace Cloud

    September 20, 2011

    Business
    Amazon EC2, Application programming interface, cloud computing, Heroku, MySQL, rackspace, Rackspace Cloud, Xeround
     

    Xeround the database service (more on them here) that is brining high levels of flexibility to cloud database users, is today rolling out availability on the Rackspace cloud. Formerly available on Amazon EC2 and Heroku, Xeround is moving in…

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  • Xeround Goes GA with Cloud Database

    June 13, 2011

    Business
    Amazon EC2, Amazon RDS, cloud computing, Database, Heroku, MySQL, rackspace, Xeround
     

    Xeround today announced the general availability of its Cloud Database for MySQL Applications. Xeround is a pay-per-use cloud database service that enables customers to only pay for actual resources consumed and not by server/instance size. This can be contrasted…

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  • Xeround Still Has Faith in Heroku

    March 15, 2011

    Business
    Amazon EC2, Database, Heroku, MySQL, Salesforce.com, SQL, Xeround
     

    Late last year salesforce.com announced its acquisition of PaaS product Heroku. At the time there was a smattering of concern from users of Heroku as to what the acquisition would mean for Heroku – would salesforce play nice with…

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