Grazed from SeekingAlpha.  Author: Amit H. Shah.

The rivalry between Google (GOOG) (NASDAQ:GOOGL) and Amazon.com(NASDAQ:AMZN) started when Google began to scan and digitize books about a decade ago, and has accelerated as each company tries to compete in the other’s main domains.

Arguably, competition is healthy and Amazon.com’s own efforts to digitize books and sell e-books on Kindle may well have been reactionary to the threat that Google posed. Since then, the rivalry between these two e-giants has accelerated as Google encroaches into e-commerce and cloud computing and Amazon.com encroaches into selling hardware that competes against Android devices (while using a modified version of Android itself) and into online advertising…

Bangs has built and led sales organizations in OEM, end user direct and channel sales models in Europe and the Americas from early-stage beta wins through high-volume, transaction channels for both VC-backed startups and Fortune 10 companies. He comes to Tegile from Fusion-io, where he served as vice president of global partner programs and vice president of ioControl sales.  Prior to Fusion-io, Bangs was senior vice president of worldwide sales at NexGen Storage.  He has also held senior sales management positions at Hewlett-Packard, LeftHand Networks and Quantum Corporation.  Bangs graduated with honors from London South Bank University with a degree in business.

Grazed from Datamation.  Author: Sean Michael Kerner.

The cloud business has often seemed like a race to the bottom in terms of pricing, with Amazon and Google constantly aiming to make cloud computing resources cheaper. It’s a race that Rackspace doesn’t want to win — instead Rackspace is aiming to find a niche in the managed cloud services market. It’s a market that is showing growth.

Rackspace reported its second quarter fiscal 204 earnings on August 11, with Net revenue coming in at $441 million for a 17 percent year-over-year gain. Looking forward, Rackspace provided third quarter guidance for revenue to be in the range of $454 million to $461 million…

Grazed from InvestorsBusiness Daily.  Author: 

Chip designer Cavium (NASDAQ:CAVM) is back above its 50-day moving average and appears to be working on the right side of a base.  If so, it would be a base-on-base pattern. The stock has been moving basically sideways since 2011. During that time, earnings growth slowed, but it has since revved up, thanks to new products and increased sales of chips used in new technologies.

Cavium designs systems-on-a-chip for the networking, telecom, storage, wireless, security and video markets. The company is best known for its core embedded chips and encrypting security processor chips. Its biggest customer, Cisco Systems (NASDAQ:CSCO), accounted for 19% of sales last year…

Grazed from WRAL.  Author: Editorial Staff.

SAS, the world’s largest privately held software firm, already offers clients use of secure data housing and "cloud" computing services, but the company is expanding its global footprint in an agreement with Amazon.  The deal was announced Tuesday.  Financial terms were not disclosed.

However, one big customer was identified as using the new Amazon Web Service-SAS offering: Lenovo, the world’s top PC manufacturer which operates its global executive headquarters in Morrisville.   SAS executives say that ‘Deal will "absolutely not" affect SAS’ own cloud and data hoisting services…

Grazed from MarketWire.  Author : PR Announcement.

 Today SwiftStack, the leader in software-defined storage for the cloud, proudly announced it won two industry awards, validation of the company’s strong momentum and innovation in the world of cloud storage. CRN declared SwiftStack one of 2014’s hottest emerging storage vendors and The Business Intelligence Group named SwiftStack a finalist in its Stratus Awards.

"The cloud storage market is crowded with public storage competition and large legacy storage players. Standing out underscores the market’s desire for software-defined storage," said Joe Arnold, CEO of SwiftStack. "Our vision is to simplify integration, scalability and management of storage for today’s modern data centers. Being recognized among other cloud innovators in the industry is a reflection of our team’s relentless work to keep our customers competitive."…