September 1, 2010 8:23 AM PDT
by James Urquhart
While much of the global economy struggles with creating jobs, the high-tech industry has had a better record than most. Yes, there are conflicting reports about IT job growth overall. But in general, the market remains quite strong for technologists.
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Within high tech itself, [...]
September 1, 2010 9:14 AM PDT
by Dave Rosenberg
The results of a new survey from application performance management provider AppDynamics shows that despite all the hype around virtualization, most companies haven’t yet virtualized their mission-critical applications.
Despite widely acknowledging the benefits of virtualization, most companies noted that they need more evidence that mission-critical [...]
August 26, 2010 8:36 AM PDT
by Dave Rosenberg
Red Hat made several announcements Wednesday related to the development of public and private clouds, including updates to its Cloud Foundation portfolio, the effort to make its Deltacloud a standard API, a flagship cloud customer, and a new platform-as-a-service (PaaS) offering.
The company is [...]
August 12, 2010 6:01 AM PDT
by Dave Rosenberg
The browser war continues.
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Some of the most highly trafficked interactive systems today are accessed through the Web: Amazon.com, Facebook, Google, Zynga just to name a few. These apps have to work flawlessly across any browser or risk losing eyeballs and audience consistency.
The browser [...]
August 2, 2010 7:48 PM PDT
by Dave Rosenberg
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Lately, you can’t talk about business without talking about “big data,” which, incidentally, is the focus of the latest package from Revolution Analytics.
Revolution Analytics, which commercialized the open-source R statistics language, emphasizes expanding the use of R beyond its academic roots to business.
On [...]
July 28, 2010 6:00 AM PDT
by Dave Rosenberg
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A new start-up called Whamcloud is coming out of stealth mode Wednesday with $10 million in private funding and a notion to disrupt the often academic world of supercomputing by leveraging the Lustre open-source project.
According to CEO Brent Gorda, the company is targeting the [...]
July 19, 2010 12:01 AM PDT
by Dave Rosenberg
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Data center and cloud infrastructure service provider Rackspace is expected to announce Monday the release of a new open-source offering that will allow users to build and launch their own internal and hosted clouds.
Dubbed OpenStack, the new Apache-licensed project will feature several cloud [...]
July 9, 2010 1:51 PM PDT
by James Urquhart
commentary Last month, as a part of the Structure conference in San Francisco, I had the privilege of moderating a panel on the subject of hybrid cloud computing. The panelists were some of the early pioneers of cloud computing, and included the likes of [...]
July 6, 2010 8:21 PM PDT
by Dave Rosenberg
Free NoSQL and data scalability cheat sheet
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NoSQL databases and associated operational-data technologies based on nonrelational approaches to data management and manipulation continue to be top of mind for big Web shops and are slowly starting to make their way into enterprise IT infrastructure.
This means [...]
June 18, 2010 6:31 AM PDT
by James Urquhart
Understanding the economics of cloud computing is critical to driving the right operations decisions for IT organizations of all sizes.
Some months ago Joe Weinman, vice president of corporate strategy at AT&T, posted a primer of sorts explaining the mathematics of computing utilities. When [...]