Research: Infrastructure Q1: IaaS Comes Down to Earth; Big Data Takes Flight
Two things stand out above all else when looking back on the first quarter of 2011: Infrastructure as a service (IaaS), the epitome of cloud computing, came down to Earth, while…
View ArticleGigaom: Forrester on Private Clouds: Platform Looks the Best … For Now
Analyst firm Forrester published an assessment report on private cloud software this week, and Platform Computing, with its ISF software, appears to have the most-complete offering based on Forrester's...
View ArticleGigaom: Hadoop may be hot, but it needs to be useful
Hadoop is a very valuable tool, but it's far from perfect. While Apache, Cloudera, EMC, MapR and Yahoo focus on core architectural issues, there is a group of vendors trying to…
View ArticleResearch: Infrastructure Q2: Big data and PaaS gain more momentum
Big data and Platform-as-a-Service offerings highlighted the second quarter, suggesting that we can expect to see a shift in enterprise IT practices around application development and analytics very...
View ArticleGigaom: Meet the new breed of HPC vendor
The face of high-performance computing is changing. That means new technologies and new names, but also familiar names in new places. Anyone that doesn't have a cloud computing story to tell,…
View ArticleGigaom: IBM eyes big data at big banks with Platform buy
IBM on Tuesday acquired Platform Computing, a company that made a name for itself in high-performance computing but recently made a splash in the cloud computing and big data spaces. It's…
View ArticleGigaom: Abiquo gets Chef integration, customizable portal
The next release of Abiquo's enterprise cloud management software will integrate with the Chef configuration management tool and sport a customizable user interface. Before moving workloads to the...
View ArticleResearch: Sector RoadMap: Hadoop platforms 2012
This report examines the key disruptive trends shaping the Hadoop platform market, and where companies will position themselves to gain share and increase revenue. For years technologists have promised...
View ArticleGigaom: The unsexy side of big data: 5 tools to manage your Hadoop cluster
It's neither easy nor glamorous -- data scientists get all the love -- but making sure your Hadoop cluster is properly configured and applications are running optimally is necessary, especially as…
View ArticleResearch: Scaling Hadoop clusters: the role of cluster management
From Facebook to Johns Hopkins University and from Alcatel-Lucent to Procter & Gamble, organizations are coping with the challenge of processing unprecedented volumes of data.
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