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Picking the cloud’s winners and losers: From SaaS to SDN

— At Structure, a panel of IT execs and investors discussed the enterprise IT winners and losers of the past few years. Here's what they had to say.

Jun 20 01:34:09 am GMT / GigaOM � Cloud Computing»

30 Days In, Bitcoin Angel Group BitAngels Doubles Network To 120, Puts First $100K Into Seasteading Venture, Blueseed

— As has been written ad nauseam, we've seen a lot of activity in the wild and wacky world of cryptocurrency of late, thanks primarily to the tech industry's new obsession with Bitcoin. Depending on whom you ask, digital currency like Bitcoin will either be worth nothing in 10 years, or its value will make Warren Buffet ...

Jun 19 11:23:57 pm GMT / TechCrunchIT»

What Storage Might Look Like In Five Years

— Once in a while, I get someone who challenges me to really think outside the box, and speculate what things might look like farther out beyond the typical 12-24 month horizon. When that gauntlet goes down, there's always an awkward moment in the room: the sales rep squirms a bi...

Jun 19 09:02:36 pm GMT / EMC Feeds »

GE thinks it's time to put industrial data in the cloud

— Internet tools are just starting to be applied to industrial tasks such as maintaining equipment and optimizing operations, but the wealth of data being produced by industrial systems could make this a major focus of development in the coming years.

Jun 18 10:52:00 pm GMT / Computerworld Cloud Computing News»

Red Hat Plays Its Trump Card

— Red Hat made its power play Wednesday. One it’s been itching to make for a couple of years. One that it hopes will ultimately jam a stick through the spokes of VMware’s front wheel. And to make sure that happens it’ll be telling everybody who’ll listen that its widgetry is a third the price of VMware’s vCloud...

Jun 18 02:00:00 pm GMT / Latest News from Cloud Computing Journal»

What Does Doorstep Milk Delivery Have in Common with Subscriptions?

— Some of our customers and billing industry contacts are somewhat intrigued (or even bemused) by the upsurge in attention being given to the concept of “subscriptions”. Some are concerned that they’re missing something because, after all, subscriptions have been business-as-usual for most of us for years. So why a...

Jun 16 09:00:00 pm GMT / Latest News from Cloud Computing Journal»

Five years in the making, Citrix finally releases Project Alice ("Reverse Seamless") functionality

— Eight years ago I sat in a hotel in Dublin and listened to Jeroen van de Kamp and Dennis Damen talk about a tool they were building called " Project Scheveningen ," something more commonly known as "reverse seamless windows." You all know what seamless...(read more)

Jun 14 04:03:00 am GMT / Brian Madden»

Ex-Yahoo CTO launches Altiscale, hardcore Hadoop as a service

— Raymie Stata spent seven years working on the guts of Hadoop as a VP, chief architect and CTO at Yahoo. His new Hadoop startup, called Altiscale, has raised a $12 million from some prominent investors.

Jun 13 01:40:45 pm GMT / GigaOM � Cloud Computing»

Brocade CEO: Why we are eating our own young

— Network fabrics have long been central to Brocade's business model. The company is currently on its sixth generation of fibre channel fabric, and since launching its Ethernet fabric two years ago the company claims to have 1,200 customers with over 200 devices deployed.

Jun 11 03:00:00 pm GMT / Techworld.com Data Centre»

How Virtualized Systems Provide a Strong Platform for Business Continuity

— Today's virtualized systems provide a sound platform for business continuity because the platforms and networking are stronger and more agile than they were even a few years ago.

Jun 11 01:58:00 am GMT / Virtualization - RSS Feed»

Banging the Drum for Proactive Customer Service

— I’ve been a drummer since I was 10 years old. In high school, a fellow drummer and I made an annual pilgrimage from Connecticut to Modern Drummer Magazine’s spring festival in Montclair, New Jersey. At the festival, attendees would be exposed to some of the world’s best drummers, such as ...

Jun 10 06:37:23 pm GMT / EMC Feeds »

Focusing on IT Regions and Cities

— State and regional efforts toward economic development and creating innovation are often as important as national initiatives. We're starting to examine some of these with the same eye we've been taking for the past two years with national environments. This is not to diminish the importance of a healthy national env...

Jun 09 09:49:00 pm GMT / Latest News from Cloud Computing Journal»

Database as a Service: Agility vs. Control

— Over the last few years there has been an increase in the number of database as a service (DBaaS) offerings that have entered the market place. IaaS providers like Amazon have released solutions such as RDS that automates database administration tasks in the area of scaling, replication, failover, backups, and more. Th...

Jun 07 12:41:46 pm GMT / The Virtualization Practice»

Five Years of Cloud Musings!!

— http://kevinljackson.blogspot.com/2008/05/hello-world-april-18-2008.html "Sunday, April 18, 2008 Hello World ! - April 18, 2008 I've been toying with the idea of doing a blog for about six months now. Initially I didn't see how any of my contributions to the blogosphere would matter to the world. The ...

May 14 05:03:00 pm GMT / Cloud Musings by Kevin L. Jackson»

Data Center Uptime: Why 0.1% Makes a Difference

— I finally decided to upgrade to a PlayStation 3 last summer after six years of quality video game time with my PS2. I was amazed at the awesome new features the PS3 offered, but what I liked the most were the cool things you can downloa...

Apr 29 04:52:00 pm GMT / ServerTech Blog - Information for the Data Center Equipment Manager»

The End of the Universe! - maybe? And a lot of data to boot.

— Some of you, my fellow nerds, were very excited when the Higgs Boson was evinced in July of last year. This past week, the LHC at CERN was shut-down for a 2-year maintenance and Mark Hoffman over at Science World Report has posted a nice article on the 75 petabytes of data recorded in its short three years of operati...

Feb 20 12:27:00 am GMT / ServerTech Blog - Information for the Data Center Equipment Manager»

Where will all these pixels go?

— I love photography. I love cameras. I love the fact that an 8-megapixel camera is seamlessly integrated into my cell phone. The convenience of a camera phone, which takes decent photos, is something I would have never imagined possible five years ago. And the fact that Nokia has a “41-megapixel” camera is c...

Feb 13 05:05:00 pm GMT / ServerTech Blog - Information for the Data Center Equipment Manager»

An Album for Each Year - 2012 Version

— About 5 years ago I joined a challenge to list "a favorite album for every year of your life." The challenge has two restrictions: only one album per year and there can be no repeats of artists. I added for myself the restriction that I should actually own the album, which restricts the set to choose from sig...

Dec 23 02:00:00 am GMT / All Things Distributed»

Redshift: Data Warehousing at Scale in the Cloud

— I’ve worked in or near the database engine world for more than 25 years. And, ironically, every company I’ve ever worked at has been working on a massive-scale, parallel, clustered RDBMS system. The earliest variant was IBM DB2 Parallel Edition released in the mid-90s. It’s now called the Database Partitioning F...

Nov 28 05:37:51 pm GMT / Perspectives»

Moving at the Speed of Cloud

— The majority of my work in the last three years or so has been all about receiving, getting, pushing, pulling, and generally wrangling streams of data (mostly social data) for the purposes of analytics, comparison, or saving across a broad range of products and services for startups (one of my own) and fortune 500 comp...

Oct 23 03:47:39 pm GMT / ProductionScale RSS Feed»

Cloud in five years' time

— Here are my thoughts on the outlook for cloud in the next few years. Growth, disruption and regulation all loom large.

Oct 17 04:49:04 am GMT / Software as Services Blog RSS | ZDNet»

HP plots its recovery

— In its 73 years, Hewlett-Packard has had bad quarters, but perhaps none like the one it posted Wednesday. Its $8.9 billion loss was huge, but there was little drama about it.

Aug 23 10:00:00 am GMT / Computerworld HP News»

Data Goes Through Phases on the Way to Insights

— Over the last few years I've been primarily building medium to large scale custom real time analytics platforms for clients. It's kept me pretty busy. I've done some for startups and even one for a big Fortune 50 client. This is been awesome in a variety of ways. Much of that work is finally about to see sunlight ('net...

Jun 15 05:42:39 am GMT / ProductionScale RSS Feed»

ARM V8 Architecture

— Years ago, Dave Patterson remarked that most server innovations were coming from the mobile device world. He’s right. Commodity system innovation is driven by volume and nowhere is there more volume than in the mobile device world. The power management techniques applied fairly successfully over the last 5 yea...

Jan 02 05:21:02 pm GMT / Perspectives»

Holistic Approach to Energy Efficient Datacenters

— A little over three years ago, I joined Microsoft to lead the hardware engineering team that helped decide which servers Microsoft would purchase to run its...

Aug 02 08:00:00 am GMT / ms datacenters»

I went home and cried realizing that I was about to spend all of the money I'd made

— Two years ago I sat down with John Keagy and David Hecht from ServePath (most widely known for GoGrids.com now). Unfortunately later that day I had a hard drive failure, with little recovered. About six months ago I found a VIM swap file of my notes with them, and today decided I should post what I have. My hope is t...

Jun 09 11:04:46 pm GMT / mhalligan's blog»

when architects worship the model and methodology

— In the last 4 years of IT architecture, I’ve seen a movement to promote modeling and taxonomy discipline into the profession. This has promoted consistency where more and more IT architects can model systems with less confusion...(read more)

Apr 29 05:36:39 pm GMT / Thoughts from the raised floor. Lewis Curtis Blog site»

Silicon Architecture will change the way we work

— I've been exposed recently to some incredible developments in the silicon world. Some that I cannot mention. However, I do want to share with you an opinion about how this world will impact our world. Over the years, servers, storage and network systems...(read more)

Feb 26 09:10:00 pm GMT / Thoughts from the raised floor. Lewis Curtis Blog site»

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