What AWS’ Hybrid Cloud Play Means for Colocation
Amazon’s end game appears to be different from Microsoft’s or Google’s.
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Christopher Tozzi started covering the channel for The VAR Guy on a freelance basis in 2008, with an emphasis on open source, Linux, virtualization, SDN, containers, data storage and related topics. He also teaches history at a major university in Washington, D.C. He occasionally combines these interests by writing about the history of software. His book on this topic, "For Fun and Profit: A History of the Free and Open Source Software Revolution," is forthcoming with MIT Press.
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