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Barb Darrow

Boston
As seen in: CNN, CNN Business, Bloomberg News, Business Insider, Forbes, Oracle Magazine, Reuters, TIME, Yahoo Finance, Fortune and
Covers:  cloud computing, infrastructure-as-a-service, platform as a service
Former cloud and enterprise tech reporter at Fortune Magazine and GigaOM then corp comms at Oracle. Opinions are my own

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Barb has covered technology and high-tech companies for longer than she’d care to admit, starting out as a reporter for InfoWorld, covering Boston-area software companies; then moving to CRN where she managed the news staff and covered the business both in terms of technology and how technology is sold. She was also news editor for TechWeb and senior news director at TechTarget before joining GigaOM. Barb enjoys seeing how old-school IT companies are (mis)managing their transition into the clou…

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Will there be an Amazon of Europe?

Will there be an Amazon of Europe?

Can one company dominate the public cloud Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) market in Europe as Amazon has i…

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5 ways to sniff out online fakers

5 ways to sniff out online fakers

The problem of online fraud, fake reviews and sock puppetry is only going to get worse, according to recent r…

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By Barb Darrow
| GigaOM Verified
Amazon.com has opened an online presence on rival Alibaba’s Tmall superstore, according to Reuters and other outlets citing an Alibaba spokesman. [company]Amazon[/company] and [company]Alibaba[/company] are both… Read More
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Move to cloud makes DevOps even more important

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By Barb Darrow
| GigaOM Verified
Stay on Top of Enterprise Technology Trends Get updates impacting your industry from our GigaOm Research Community As companies move more workloads to the cloud, DevOps, the practice where software developers actually work with the operations side of the house — becomes even more important, according to IT executives.
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Red Hat dilemma: Cloud players balk at new support fees

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By Barb Darrow
| GigaOM Verified
Stay on Top of Enterprise Technology Trends Get updates impacting your industry from our GigaOm Research Community Enterprise Linux leader Red Hat(s rht) is changing its support pricing model in a way that opens the door to rival operating systems — at least in the cloud service provider market — and perhaps more broadly. One large cloud provider said the move will more than double his costs, making the Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) option as pricey as Windows(s msft).
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