Tuesday, March 31, 2009

Accelerating the cloud: Akamai, OpSource partner

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Accelerating the cloud: Akamai, OpSource partner

Ann Bednarz By Ann Bednarz
Everyone is talking about the cloud lately, and this week brings news of a partnership designed to help ISVs quickly deploy and accelerate new hosted software products. Read full story

Ann Bednarz is associate news editor at Network World.

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