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• Rackspace enhances private Cloud offering

  Rackspace, the major public Cloud provider, is not ignoring private Clouds.

• IBM says OpenStack will be central to its future cloud strategy

  Already a platinum member of the cloud operating system platform OpenStack, IBM officials said open source code from the project will be the foundation of the company's cloud strategy moving forward, including a new product it announced today.

• Huawei launches OpenStack-powered Cloud aimed at service providers

  Chinese telecom giant Huawei today announced FusionCloud, an OpenStack-powered cloud aimed mostly at carrier providers.

• OnApp: The most popular Cloud platform you've probably never heard of

  For a company that has powered 2000 Clouds with more than 500 service providers in 40 countries, London-based OnApp has largely flown under the radar of industry watchers. But that could be changing for OnApp, which has built up an impressive cloud management platform, complete with an integrated content delivery network and a new storage-area network that it released today in the 3.0 version of its product.

• Microsoft Azure overtakes Amazon's cloud in performance test

  Microsoft Azure's cloud outperformed Amazon Web Services in a series of rigorous tests conducted by Nasuni, a storage vendor that annually benchmarks cloud service providers (CSPs).

• DIY Cloud: Choosing your own virtual machine image sizes

  Amazon Web Services, seen by many as the market-leading infrastructure cloud computing provider, has a pretty full shelf of virtual machine (VM) image sizes for customers to spin up in its Cloud -- 17 separate instance VM sizes are listed on the company's website, in fact.

• Startup takes aim at multi-hypervisor management

  An updated version of software from startup HotLink aims to ease the management of multi-hypervisor environments, as well as provision off-premises resources, like VMs from Amazon's cloud, all from VMware's vCenter management console.

• Cloud service partnerships could boom in 2013

  Cloud service providers will seek out partnerships to offer a wider breadth of services that customers are increasingly demanding, a new report from research firm Current Analysis predicts.

• Dell, Intel and Chinese venture firm back OpenStack consultancy Mirantis for $10M

  Two big names in the OpenStack movement -- Dell and Intel -- have thrown money behind a consultancy that has carved a niche out helping users deploy the open source cloud platform.

• Amazon's cloud hiccups, again

  Less than a month after a 12-hour-plus outage on Christmas Eve, Amazon Web Service's Elastic Block Storage (EBS) service in its US-East availability zone experienced elevated error rates for about 45 minutes today.

• Like Cisco, Alcatel-Lucent funding SDN startup

  Like Cisco and its Insieme Networks project, Alcatel-Lucent has invested in a startup company focused on SDNs for cloud service providers.

• Open source cloud battles: OpenStack leveling off as CloudStack interest gains

  OpenStack is the largest and most active open source cloud computing project, but interest in the platform has leveled off in the last quarter as momentum for competing project CloudStack continues to build.

• Dell may wait until end of year to join public cloud market

  Dell may wait until the end of this year to launch its anticipated public cloud, a vice president with the company told Network World sister site ITWorld, a move that puts the company behind other big-name vendors that are already executing on their cloud strategies.

• Gartner: Top 10 cloud storage providers

  According to a Gartner survey, about 19% of organizations are using the cloud for production computing, while 20% are using public cloud storage services.

• Technologies to watch 2013: OpenStack cloud backers hope 2013 is the year of user adoption

  In the cloud computing market, there are a handful of major vendors. Most agree Amazon Web Services is a market leader on the infrastructure as a service (IaaS) side, but Microsoft, Google and younger companies like Joyent are looking to dethrone AWS. And then there's OpenStack, which is for almost everyone else.