Tag: Cloud
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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…
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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. It will always remain competitive on price, but it doesn’t expect to…
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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. Although YARN remains similar to the old Hadoop…
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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…
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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…
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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). I wonder if maybe there should be an 8. challenge, to provide a cost effective…
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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…).
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Tempo, the data layer for the measured world
Cool and innovative idea, makes me want to play with it… if just I had an idea what to use it for? Once we connect 50 billion devices to the web […], what will those devices talk to? Chicago Startup Tempo hopes those sensors will take to its database as a service — depositing their…
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Wipro Building Global Utility Computing Platform for Enterprise Clients
Was about time the global outsourcers got serious about diversifying into IaaS and PaaS. “Last year we began offering multi-tenant, virtual server hosting to our existing clients as part of large, integrated infrastructure management engagements. Clients have quickly adopted the service, and today, 15% of the servers hosted in Wipro’s data centers are delivered in…
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Designing Database Systems for Failure
Inspired by Amazon’s recent downtime: As relates to disaster recovery of databases, public cloud customers need three things: Safe Data Guarantees: To have live, fully up to date and fully consistent copies of all your databases in a location of your own choice. That might be your corporate datacenter, a portable USB drive or an…