It truly was a busy day in cloud computing, with AWS announcing its DNS service and Cisco forging a partnership with BMC Software, as well as comments on private clouds vs. public clouds, and news that Acadia might be fading into a formal VCE entity. Read more »
Nimbula Director is now available as a public beta release. Nimbula has received lots of attention since emerging from stealth mode in late June, primarily because of its founders’ pedigrees as the creators and builders of Amazon EC2, but now Nimbula’s product has to prove itself. Read more »
Suddenly, it seems, Java PaaS, an area once devoid of options, is swimming with choices. Makara, CloudBees, App Engine, Windows Azure and more all support Java. Now, it’s not a matter of who’ll step up and offer a Java-capable PaaS service, but which approaches are sustainable. Read more »
Further Wikileaks analysis aside, Google was all over tech headlines over the past day. It upgraded App Engine, leaked a secret new consumer storage feature, and bought a data center hotel housing some of the biggest names in data centers and business. Read more »
Amazon Web Services is taking its CloudWatch monitoring service to the next level, announcing on Friday morning a half-dozen new features. Cloud monitoring is becoming big business, so anything AWS can do to keep those dollars in-house is probably worth the effort. Read more »
Chalk another one (two, actually) up for Hadoop. Among the big news today is Apple stepping up its Hadoop development efforts, and Datameer targeting social-gaming companies for its Hadoop-powered spreadsheet application. Elsewhere, data center spending is still high, and IBM is looking to revolutionize high-end processors. Read more »
The story of Wikileaks hosting its Cablegate data on Amazon EC2 strikes me on so many levels. As a journalist, American citizen, and soon-to-be J.D., I’ve thought about freedom of speech, and I’m flabbergasted that Wikileaks hosted the site with a U.S. provider on U.S. soil. Read more »
Every day covering infrastructure forces one to think about what’s next, not just what’s happening right now. Today, that came in the form of thinking about many-core GPUs in mobile devices, and in considering how Big Data tools might find their way to the masses. Read more »
Cisco this morning announced its intent to acquire LineSider Technologies, a purchase that will give Cisco advanced capabilities in managed virtualized network resources. As Cisco evolves its cloud computing capabilities, especially, technologies that make network management more dynamic will make Cisco a more-appealing choice. Read more »
Aside from Red Hat buying Makara, the other big cloud news has to be Wikileaks using Amazon to host its Cablegate repository. The Wikileaks data aspect leads to two other interesting items today: Geostellar’s clean-energy analysis tool and Aster Data partnering to combine analytics and visualization. Read more »
Cloud startup Abiquo has closed a $10 million Series B funding round. Abiquo sells internal-cloud management software, making it one of many vendors fighting to establish a foothold in what many experts think will be a very lucrative market over the next few years. Read more »
The cloud computing world is in for yet another shakeup: Red Hat has acquired platform-as-a-service (PaaS) startup Makara. The purchase immediately vaults Red Hat into the role of cloud provider, but also gives Red Hat the means to sell its PaaS vision across the cloud landscape. Read more »
Today’s news underscores my feeling that 2011 will be a huge year for cloud computing. Aside from CloudBees’ funding, we have Mellanox buying Voltaire, rumors of Oracle buying Salesforce.com, Enomaly continuing to push cloud brokerages, and questions about whether Intel’s Open Data Center Alliance can succeed. Read more »
Boston-based cloud computing startup CloudBees has received $4 million to advance its vision of building a top-to-bottom Java Platform as a Service (PaaS). CloudBees already offers a Java development Platform as a Service, but its plans include a production-ready Java runtime PaaS called RUN@cloud. Read more »
The cloud provides resources that organizations requiring HPC have never had access to before without buying their own clusters. GPUs are everywhere and proving adept at boosting performance. It seems likely that future HPC architectures will be a lot more virtual and a lot less CPU-centric. Read more »
Many groups within the IT organization have significant stakes in the decision-making process when it comes to moving production applications to virtualized servers or to the cloud. One group in particular, the application owners, can take opposing viewpoints when it comes to these two technologies. Read more »
Three years ago, I spent a few post-Thanksgiving hours wondering whether applying the cloud label to everything – now commonly referred to as “cloudwashing” – was a wise idea. In the meantime, marketers correctly decided it was, but concern over the wisdom of overusing buzzwords hasn’t gone away. Read more »
Heading into the long holiday weekend, the news today is all about what’s new: Salesforce.com’s new chief scientist, Google’s new data centers, EMC’s new business and Fujitsu’s new versatile blade server. Read more »
Matthew Aslett at The 451 Group posted some Google Trends graphs showing that searches for “Hadoop” far exceed searches for “big data.” I ran some of my own to dig deeper. Users, it seems, are just concerned with tools to help them ride the big data wave. Read more »
Today’s links demonstrate that there’s a long way to go before we have issues like cloud computing and web infrastructure figured out, but also that we’re making progress: Twitter teaches lessons on scaling, Google runs test queries, and IBM Research is tackling cloud privacy. Read more »
Fresh off a $9 million Series B Round in March, clustered file system startup Scale Computing has closed a $17 million Series C round. It’s yet more proof that spending on scale-out storage software is nowhere near its end. Read more »
Perhaps it’s in the nature of sharing that the Thanksgiving week kicks off with a lot of talk about open source: Novell gets bought, Cisco might be eying up an open source router play, and VoltDB has developed Hadoop integration. Read more »
Menlo Park-based nlyte Software has closed a $12 million round founded on the promise for nlyte’s data center infrastructure management (DCIM) product. In an IT world dominated by discussions about server virtualization and cloud computing, however, I wonder just who is buying into the DCIM vision. Read more »
Attachmate, a privately held software vendor, bought Novell, the once-powerful enterprise networking player, for $2.2 billion. The interesting part of this story, however, is not who bought Novell, but who didn’t – namely, VMware. In fact, bitter VMware rival Microsoft might end up with some valuable assets. Read more »
The analogy goes that with more organizations hosting applications in the cloud, and with data volumes skyrocketing, the data center takes the place of the on-premise server. If that’s the case, the cloud computing management software must be the new operating system, so scalability is critical. Read more »
We’re beginning to see some real shifts in architectures, even for cutting-edge technologies. Today, for instance, IBM Research announced a HDFS alternative, ZT has an ARM-based server on the market, and Cloudscaling takes a look at the relation between grid-, cloud- and high-performance computing. Read more »
It was a bittersweet day: The FCC moved to Terremark’s cloud, while some discussed why users aren’t embracing it; Juniper bought Blackwave, which doesn’t bode well for CDNs; NetApp had a good Q2 but a questionable forecast; and Gear6′s fall means great product for Violin Memory. Read more »
The company that made the PC omnipresent in American homes is now trying to do the same thing with cloud computing. You’ve no doubt seen a frustrated mother on television going “to the cloud” to edit family photos. The Onion contributor Amelie Gillette certainly has. Read more »
Here’s reason to stop doubting the potential of cloud computing: OpenStack is on pace to deliver updates to its open-source platform, HPC in the cloud is a reality, Qualcomm is embracing it, and a new set of security tools is available. The barriers are all crumbling. Read more »
Marc Benioff, Paul Maritz and Andy Jassy shared the stage at Web 2.0 to talk about the democratizing effect of the cloud: a fair word choice when discussing the underlying value proposition for cloud computing, but not necessarily when discussing their respective roles in it. Read more »
The OpSource cloud is built atop VMware, and a switch to vSPhere 4 means customers can now deploy eight-core, 64GB. Large instances are critical for cloud providers targeting enterprises and complex applications, and OpSource is among a small number of providers offering this much performance. Read more »
Today, we have either-or questions, like whether cloud computing kill virtualization, or if NoSQL replace SQL in the cloud. But the news proves the answers lie in the gray area, such as Facebook choosing HBase, AWS getting ISO certification, and another complement to the CPU. Read more »
What’s fascinating to hear how a company that deals in analytics and mobile-device management software approaches these issues within its own walls. For SAP, that means embracing the iPad as a business tool, dumping CRM databases in-memory and tracking carbon emissions down to the molecule. Read more »
AWS’s GPU Instances aside, today is all about money. On top of the $2.25 billion EMC is paying for Isilon, scale-out SAN vendor Coraid closed a $25 million Series B round, and one research firm predicts NoSQL to be a $1.8 billion market by 2015. Read more »
Amazon Web Services upped its HPC portfolio by offering servers that will run GPUs. The move comes on the heels of AWS releasing its Cluster Compute Instances, and validates the idea that specialized hardware may be better suited for certain types of computing in the cloud. Read more »
Cloud storage got a shot in the arm this week in the form of tens of millions in venture capital and research funding. Despite all the talk about applications and servers in the cloud, the real value lies in data, and it must be housed somewhere. Read more »
It’s a big news Friday. On the NoSQL front, Microsoft is giving Membase and MongoDB some love, while CouchOne distances itself from the term. In the cloud world, there was another revenue prediction, Appistry and Dell teaming on cloud storage, and Eucalyptus potentially working with OpenStack. Read more »
When patent troll Acacia sued Red Hat in 2007, Acacia’s patents were invalidated by the court, and all software developers had one less legal risk to cope with. So, why is the outcome of Red Hat’s next tangle with Acacia being kept secret? Read more »
With computing figured out, the next frontier of innovation in cloud computing looks to be a t the network level. Today, for example, we see lots of competition for Akamai, AWS improving the upload process to overcome network reliability, and Extreme Networks winning VMware’s business. Read more »
Cloud application-platform provider Appistry has teamed with Accenture to develop Cloud MapReduce product. Cloud MapReduce is focused on real-time analysis of streaming data, and it complements Appistry’s distributed file system to form a Hadoop alternative for certain applications. Read more »
