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Why Rackspace Is Focusing on the Hybrid Cloud Market

By Chris Preimesberger | Posted 2013-10-05 Email Print NEWS ANALYSIS: Rackspace believes that all cloud roads eventually lead to hybrid, and it's willing to prove its point. At this early point in the wild, wild west of cloud computing, there are lots of opinions about whether private, public or hybrid clouds will eventually become dominant in enterprise IT.

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Shutdown doesn't hurt us? That's bull

Economists may say the government shutdown is having only a slight impact on the economy, but for thousands people, the closure means a real loss of jobs, income and security. Military families Lawmakers patted themselves on the back for ensuring the military would be paid on time during the shutdown.

http://economy.money.cnn.com/2013/10/04/shutdown-doesnt-hurt-us-thats-bull/

play conference 2013

Facebook is is the world's largest social network, with over 1 billion monthly active users. Facebook users' passion to the site is unparalleled: more than half use the product every single day. Facebook CIO, Tim Campos, is a pioneer at the intersection of business intelligence and technology and is an evangelist for an IT-focused growth strategy.

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US stocks seen steeply lower in second week of shutdown

"We continue to believe that the bigger risk event for markets remains a potential breach of the debt ceiling (around the 17 October) and expect such an event to be broadly risk negative," said Barclays analysts in a morning research note.

http://cnb.cx/18JzUFD

A Federal Budget Crisis Months in the Planning

WASHINGTON - Shortly after President Obama started his second term, a loose-knit coalition of conservative activists led by former Attorney General Edwin Meese III gathered in the capital to plot strategy. Their push to repeal Mr. Obama's health care law was going nowhere, and they desperately needed a new plan.

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/06/us/a-federal-budget-crisis-months-in-the-planning.html?smid=tw-share&_r=0

Cloud Platform Blog

Today's guest post comes from Dr. Chandra Krintz, co-founder and CTO of AppScale Systems. AppScale Systems is the team behind AppScale, the open source cloud platform that brings portability and failover to App Engine applications. Recently, there have been interesting discussions around lock in and Google App Engine.

http://googlecloudplatform.blogspot.co.uk/2013/09/appscale-brings-choice-to-google-app-engine-developers.html

Reshaping the future: Cities of tomorrow

By 2050 the number of people living in cities will double, creating problems that governments and citizens must adapt to in order to survive forcing urban planners to come up with new ways to tackle these growing pains.

http://cbsn.ws/1gjEWwv