Tag: Cloud
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Open Cloud Initiative and Demo in Züri
Tomorrow, September 12, 2012, 7:00 PM, ETH HG E 1.1
Sam Johnston [1], the president of the Open Cloud Initiative (OCI) [2] will join us for the first session after the summer break.
via Open Cloud Initiative and demo – Zurich FLOSS and IT geeks (Zürich) – Meetup.
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VMware’s OpenStack Hook-up
Some good commentary about Vmware joining OpenStack: VMware’s OpenStack Hook-up.
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IaaS Pricing Patterns and Trends
About Amazon as price dictator in IaaS:
It is also interesting […] to observe the degree to which pricing strategies are clearly built around, or in relation to, Amazon. The data also suggests that exceptions to this pattern are generally enterprise market providers, most obviously IBM, which tend to target customers who historically have had different sensitivities to cost.… Continued
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Rackspace vs. Amazon
Rackspace vs. Amazon:
“it’s not Rackspace’s goal to compete with Amazon for sheer number of developers or market revenue share. “
There’s a large segment of cloud users that want to pay for peace of mind, he said, which is where Rackspace excels.… Continued
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PaaS on Hadoop Yarn
PaaS on Hadoop Yarn – Idea and Prototype is looking at what’s missing to offer PaaS with Hadoop Yarn:
YARN is the next generation Hadoop MapReduce architecture. It is designed to be more flexible architecturally, improve scalability, and achieve a higher resource utilization rate, among other things.… Continued
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VMware/EMC Spinning Out Greenplum et.al. into New Cloud Provider?
What would tech news be without rumours and speculation? Anyway, this could make sense from multiple angles, be it risk mitigation or just a new setup that allows EMC and VMware each to focus on the core infra assets that they sell to the enterprise, and takes a lot of the other stuff into a new cloud provider.… Continued
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Startup Connection Cloud aims to free your SaaS data
Cool idea, difficult to pull off at enterprise quality if the data source providers don’t cooperate and offer stable APIs (but even then…)
It’s not easy to get Salesforce.com data to work with NetSuite data, for example. Connection Cloud is working on connectors for those popular applications as well as for Intacct, Facebook, Eloqua, Google Spreadsheets, Zuora and others, to connect that data to front ends like Jaspersoft, Tableau, Yellowfin, Microsoft Excel and Access, Zendesk scripting, Appcelerator mobile app building tools and Google Appscript.… Continued
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Database Diversity Revisited
According to Monash:
every sufficiently large enterprise needs to be cognizant of at least 7 kinds of database challenge.
via Database diversity revisited. I can relate to that for the Financial Industry (not having had much exposure to other industries).… Continued
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NuoDB Closes $10 Million Series B
NuoDB Closes $10 Million Series B With Gary Morgenthaler. These guys have long been on my “Cloud Database” watchlist, now’s the time for them to reach out and grow. GigaOm has some background about how they’re rooted with Database industry veterans (turned venture capitalists…).