Hadoop startup Qubole raises $7M for Hive as a Service
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Hadoop experts Qubole have just closed a Series A funding round for their service, which lets users run Hive data warehouse jobs in Amazon’s cloud. Read more »
Data centers are getting more sophisticated, so why aren’t our metrics keeping up?
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As the web giants, co-lo providers and cloud companies add millions of square feet of data center space we need to start getting more sophisticated in how we view these rooms full of servers. Read more »
CA snaps up Layer 7 as API management arena heats up
Last week it was Intel buying Mashery, now it’s CA buying Layer 7. Both Mashery and Layer 7 are in the business of managing application programming interfaces. Read more »
How HBase converted MySpace’s MySQL champion and is driving Hadoop mainstream
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Gravity CTO Jim Benedetto knows his way around MySQL after managing a 600-instance cluster at MySpace, but he has found HBase religion as his real-time content-recommendation platform grew. And he’s not alone. Read more »
IBM buys UrbanCode for its devops chops
Big Blue says UrbanCode’s software works well with its own Worklight mobile application development platfrom to speed up the creation and deployment of mobile (and cloud) apps. Read more »
CDNify launches, based on OnApp’s federated CDN
CDNify, which is based on OnApp’s CDN-in-a-box and the federation that underpins it, is targeting startups that might need to scale up content delivery quickly, with the focus being on price and ease of use. Read more »
From SOA to PaaS: How to create enterprise architectures in the cloud
Join GigaOM Research and Red Hat on May 1 for an analyst-led webinar where you’ll hear leading experts on architecture and development provide their guidance, best practices, and approaches to leverage public and private cloud computing technology. Read more »
Deep thinking on complex systems: A devops reading list
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GigaOM contributor James Urquhart shares some of the best books, blogs and other information on the concepts of devops and complex IT systems. Read more »
Forecast for the cloud: it will come in a million varieties
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The cloud is dominated by massive, super-scale providers like Google and Amazon. But that is going to change, and eventually every business big or small will have a cloud suited specifically to their needs. Read more »
The week in cloud: SAP stakes cloud claim; legacy and new-look vendors arm for battle
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Sometimes we forget: cloud adoption is just in the baby step phase; SAP says it’s profiting from cloud; battle for legacy and new app workloads gets more nuanced. Read more »
Feedly survives the outages from the post-Google Reader rush, adding users, feeds and maybe revenue
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Feedly has faced two outages since adding millions of users in the wake of the announcement that Google will retire its Google Reader service. Now Feedly is accelerating its monetization plans. Read more »
Why IBM might ditch servers and become Intelligent Business Middleware
IBM is reportedly in talks to sell it’s server business to Lenovo. As it ditches commodity hardware again, where is IBM’s fortune going to be made? Mobility and data. Read more »
Digital capitalism is the most Darwinian capitalism: The economics of building a platform
Platform companies from Apple to OpenTable take a commission from developers or merchants. But figuring out how much to take has huge repercussions on the business explains Benchmark’s Bill Gurley. Read more »
Google calls on utilities to sell it clean energy for data centers, starting in North Carolina
Google is asking utilities to create programs that will sell companies clean power if they’re willing to pay for it, starting with Duke Energy in North Carolina. Read more »
Ionic Security raises $9.4M to make BYOD safe
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An Atlanta-based startup called Ionic Security has raised a $9.4 million Series A-1 round to develop its technology that aims to let employees access data on whatever devices and networks they want without fear of having their data stolen along the way. Kleiner Perkins Caufield Byers […] Read more »
Microsoft earnings: Windows wasn’t as bad as expected but it wasn’t good either
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Despite flat year-over-year WIndows revenue, Microsoft logged a 19 percent profit year over year. Not too shabby for the much maligned company. Read more »
Cloud keeps looking good for IBM, and flash storage could help in the months ahead
Despite gains in cloud computing revenue, IBM did not meet Wall Street’s expectations of the legacy technology vendor. Flash storage could help bring more revenue later this year. Read more »
Google’s infrastructure spending spree continues; $1.2B in Q1
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Google spent $1.2 billion on property and equipment in the first quarter of 2013, nearly doubling last year’s first quarter. Read more »
4 networking startups to watch: Open Networking Summit edition
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Investors are still interested in funding software-defined networking plays. Here are four who were on hand at the Open Networking Summit this week. Read more »
Guavus raises $9M more in quest to make telcos smarter
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Guavus makes its living by helping telcos and mobile carriers make sense of what’s happening across their networks. To date it has raised $87 million and is looking to expand far and wide. Read more »
What HP’s new cloud guy wants you to know about HP’s new cloud
Saar Gillai says HP’s darkest days are behind it and with its new OpenStack cloud, the company is hitting its stride. Then again, what else would he say? Read more »
Facebook throws down efficiency gauntlet with real-time data and open-source dashboards
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Following on previous quarterly disclosures on energy and water efficiency, Facebook is unveiling dashboards showing its data centers’ near-real-time performance. Read more »
Amazon S3 goes exponential, now stores 2 trillion objects
Less than year after hitting the 1 trillion object mark, Amazon S3 is now storing more than 2 trillion objects. That’s a lot any way you slice it and highlights AWS’s role as an underpinning of today’s web. Read more »
Sponsored post: Leveraging the cloud for more than file storage
Now that you’ve got all your files stored in the cloud, are you truly leveraging all that stored data? What’s the next step after migration to the cloud? Enabling users to access and collaborate on them in real time anywhere, anytime. Read more »
Welcome to Berkeley: Where Hadoop isn’t nearly fast enough
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Hadoop not fast enough for you? Then you might want to get to know AMPLab, a University of California, Berkeley team developing faster versions of many core Hadoop components. Read more »
Yes, people really are still debating the definition of SDN (software-defined networking)
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If vendors are still debating the definition of software-defined networking, enterprises will be left unsure what products could solve their problems. And that is exactly what’s happening. Read more »
OpenDaylight optimism persists, along with questions
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At this year’s Open Networking Summit, plenty of people acknowledged the news of the OpenDaylight Project. Some asked about the consortium’s viability; others reserved judgment. Read more »
Why OpenStack is like kale — it’s cheap, easy to source and good for you
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OpenStack, like kale, can be baked, roasted, sliced, diced, sauteed and pureed to be made part of anything. Or at least that’s what its backers hope. Read more »
Instart Logic gets $17M to improve mobile site performance with secret SaaS
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To help companies boost the speed of delivery of their mobile sites, Instart Logic is ramping up sales and product development with a new round of venture funding. Read more »
Intel’s switching dreams will be Cisco’s and Juniper’s nightmare
Intel has big plans in the networking –plans that will upset the status quo from merchant silicon vendors like Broadcom to box makers like Cisco and Juniper who are dependent on custom ASICs. Read more »
We are all bandwidth hogs now
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Last year demand for bandwidth rose by 40 percent, and much of that demand is now coming from all over the world, not just in developed countries. Read more »
I bought the fastest server so why is my app slow?
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Buying information technology is complicated and made more so by companies trying to pick the best solution without ever asking themselves what’s best for their business at this point in time. Read more »
Cloudability tool gives Amazon customers more detailed, custom looks at their cloud costs
Cloudability says its new AWS cost analytics tool can handle the deluge of hourly cost data Amazon churns out and help customers nip budgeting and other usage problems in the bud. Read more »
Top 5 lessons learned at OpenStack Summit
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There was lots of hubbub Tuesday at the OpenStack Summit. Actual customers talking about real implementations of the open-source cloud. Here’s what I learned. Read more »
VCs will fund more software-defined networking startups as enterprises sit on the sidelines
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While hype persists around software-defined networking, venture capitalists are looking for more SDN startups to fund. The hype could dissipate and enterprise adoption could come in 2014 or 2015, so founders have time. Read more »
Google’s Vint Cerf explains how to make SDN as successful as the internet
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Vint Cerf is the father of the internet, so its worth listening to what he thinks the next generation of networking might enable. For him software-defined networking might fix some design flaws. Read more »
Sponsored post: Leveraging the cloud for more than file storage
Now that you’ve got all your files stored in the cloud, are you truly leveraging all that stored data? What’s the next step after migration to the cloud? Enabling users to access and collaborate on them in real time anywhere, anytime. Read more »
IDC: Big data alone will drive billions in storage sales
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IDC is predicting a $6 billion big-data storage market by 2016, part of an overall big data market worth nearly $24 billion. Read more »
When it comes to networking, time — and a billion dollars — changes everything
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The networking world is undergoing an epic disruption brought about by Open Flow and software defined networking. At the Open Networking Summit, we can see how the ecosystem has changed in a mere 18 months. Read more »
At long last, Microsoft is ready to compete head on with Amazon Web Services
Microsoft Windows Azure GM Bill Hilf calls Amazon a competitor, a partner and a neighbor: But that won’t stop Microsoft from launching an IaaS price war against Amazon Web Services. Read more »
