To share or not to share memory, that’s the question that sparked the most heated debate in a Structure panel on next-gen architectures for the cloud. Though the panelists agreed that cranking out more code at higher speeds is a top priority for the web. Read more »
One of the biggest challenges AMD faces as a chip manufacturer, according to Rick Bergman, who heads up the company’s processor and computing platforms initiatives, is that old problem of predicting the future. Read more »
Salesforce.com chairman Marc Benioff said his company has spent more than half of its research and development budget developing social features like the recently launched Chatter, and is trying to bring Facebook-style features to enterprise software in the same way it originally learned from Amazon. Read more »
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Creating an Internet that will serve us well into the future demands a new, open approach to data flows and networking, according to Nick McKeown, professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Stanford University. Read more »
As the use of cloud computing grows, this issue emerges: mo’ servers in the cloud, mo’ problems. That’s one of the reasons why cloud computing users are increasingly relying on more sophisticated analytics to fine-tune the way the systems are working. Read more »
Werner Vogels, Amazon’s chief technology officer, said at GigaOM’s Structure conference that the biggest change in cloud computing over the past year is that “we went from talk to action.” Instead of just thinking about implementing cloud solutions, companies are rolling them out aggressively, he said. Read more »
With an ownership stake in VMware, a tight alliance with Cisco and consistent placement at the top of IDC’s external disk-based storage revenue list, EMC is widely seen as the 800-pound gorilla of the storage space. So how does EMC see it evolving? Read more »
Cloud computing is often seen as beneficial for companies primarily because it lowers information technology costs, but panelists at GigaOM’s Structure conference said that this is a misconception, and enterprises that focus solely on using cloud computing to cut costs will miss the point. Read more »
CloudSwitch today launched the commercial version of its flagship product to help enterprise customers seamlessly move applications into the cloud. The startup claims that using it, applications from stack components to security protocols run in the cloud just as they do within the data center. Read more »
If you have not heard of a job description called Cloud Admins, soon you will. Makara CEO Issac Roth thinks that cloud admins will be the new new version of the IT sysadmins. Today’s sysadmins are going to become cloud admins and their role will be […] Read more »
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The big buzz at our Structure 2010 pre-event event was about Lew Tucker, Sun Microsystems’ CTO & VP of Cloud Computing, joining Cisco Systems as the new CTO of Cisco’s fledgling cloud efforts. I’m being told the news is going to be announced very soon. Read more »
NorthScale, a Mountain View, Calif.-based web infrastructure startup, along with social gaming giant Zynga and a South Korean search and gaming portal are joining hands to launch Membase, a new open-source database that joins a fast-growing list of NoSQL databases that includes MongoDB and CouchDB. Read more »
Makara, a Redwood City, Calif-based startup that’s developed a cloud application platform for the Java world, is launching Makara Cloud for JBoss tomorrow at JBoss World. And while it supports LAMP-based applications and public clouds, Makara sees its future inside the enterprise. Read more »
Since an API alone is not going to get the enterprise to the cloud, a new crop of companies are aiming to bridge this divide with familiar enterprise-style storage interfaces and bridge them to the cloud, or in some cases to a choice of cloud providers. Read more »
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Tilera, the maker of a massively multicore chip, has signed a deal with hardware manufacturer Quanta to offer a server designed especially for the cloud, becoming one of several startups aiming to meet worldwide demand for compute-based services and amid concerns about energy efficiency. Read more »
Selling cloud computing to established businesses is no easy feat. They understand the potential benefits, but they’ve just spent years on virtualization efforts, and they have their own specific problems that aren’t easily addressed by one-size-fits-all cloud offerings. As a result, many cloud companies are turning to channel partners to remedy these sales obstacles. Read more »
The story of Amazon creating a cloud computing business to take advantage of capacity left over from the peak holiday season has settled into the Internet apocrypha, but blogger Carl Brooks claims he’s uncovered the real reason the online bookstore got into the cloud. Read more »
SeaMicro’s server reveal this week reverberated across three distinct groups of techies: the green IT crowd, cloud computing devotees and computer server market watchers. Not that they’re mutually exclusive, but it’s rare to get all three to sit up and take notice at once. How did […] Read more »
VMware is among those companies duking it out with incumbents such as Microsoft and Oracle thanks to cloud computing. VMware CEO Paul Maritz will join me onstage at our upcoming Structure conference to talk about, among other things, his vision for the future of cloud computing. Read more »
Eucalyptus Systems has launch which support for Windows virtual machines (VMs), that allows Eucalyptus users to run Windows images and applications. Eucalyptus now supports all major hypervisors. The new software allows easy switching from Amazon’s EC2 to VMware-based cloud offerings. Read more »
So far this week two storage startups offering a hardware product have launched in as many days, both offering variations on the theme that more data requires more storage and faster networks require faster access to stored data. The trend has been building for years. Read more »
IBM is reportedly close to buying Israeli-American storage startup Storwize for about $140 million. Such an acquisition could indicate the start of consolidation in the cloud storage sector, as predicted by industry insiders and venture capitalists. Read more »
SeaMicro, a startup building a low power-server using Atom chips and its own specially designed silicon to handle the networking, has finally unveiled its hardware, which is pretty darn impressive. But can its $139,000 box containing more than 2,000 CPU cores win over data center operators? Read more »
While at some point, dynamically moving VMs inside a single data center or between two data centers will be a seamless process, it’s not now. In the meantime, however, there are numerous opportunities for startups to offer solutions that will help make such seamlessness a reality. Read more »
Public clouds are the new storage service providers. So for those keeping an eye on the enterprise storage future, it makes sense to consider whether the infrastructure challenges being faced by these large service providers today indicate what the largest enterprises will face tomorrow. Read more »
VMware, the company that took the hypervisor mainstream and still controls the virtualization of some 80 percent of servers worldwide, is indulging in some retail therapy as it seeks to change its image from the provider of commodity hypervisors to become a concierge of the cloud. Read more »
Pew Internet says the future of computing is Internet-based. One doesn’t need a survey to figure that out. Just look at how we, our families and kids already use computing devices. Nevertheless, 71% of those surveyed say that by 2020, we will be cloud computing. Read more »
VMware is continuing its acquisition spree as it looks to raise its profile in the platform-as-a-service market, and sources tell me its latest target is EngineYard, the Ruby on Rails platform that’s raised $37 million from the likes of Amazon and Benchmark. Read more »
Amazon’s Import/Export Service, which allows companies with large data sets to mail their files to Amazon’s cloud is now available to all. The success of the service points to several business opportunities when it comes to optimizing bandwidth, cloud portability and creating markets for big data. Read more »
Morgan Stanley analyst Mary Meeker says the mobile market is growing at a phenomenal rate, that online advertising could finally be entering its “golden age,” and that online commerce is also slated to take off, thanks in large part to mobile devices like the iPad. Read more »
Certain cognitive biases should be of particular interest to cloud service providers, as they can be intangible barriers to cloud computing acceptance, and to customers, who can recognize these behaviors and moderate their impact. With that in mind, I offer the 10 Laws of Behavioral Cloudonomics. Read more »
When all is said and done, Google, Microsoft and Salesforce.com might be battling it out for PaaS (and SaaS) dollars against a whole slew of smaller providers operating within the infrastructural confines of AWS, Rackspace, Terremark and Savvis. Read more »
Amazon Web Services was the first source of cloud computing available and ended up at the forefront of the trend. A post today at Elastician attempts to relay how hot Amazon’s services are using the number of postings and participants in forums for individual AWS products. Read more »
Want to know how Apple’s Genius song recommendation system for iTunes works? A post telling folks was deleted without explanation, but it’s worth reading since recommendation engines are the key to shoving the web onto devices like mobile phones and for creating a hyperpersonalized surfing experience. Read more »
With its new accelerated processor unit AMD is following its rival Intel down a path to keep x86 chips both powerful and power efficient as computing goes mobile for consumers and requires millions of processor cores running a “cloud” on the server side. Read more »
Hewlett-Packard said today that it would cut 9,000 jobs and take a $1 billion restructuring charge spread out through Oct. 2013 as it seeks to automate its data centers so it can deliver enterprise business services, which I read as HP’s transition to delivering cloud computing. Read more »
With the web and cloud computing generating new data sources and consumption patterns, a fresh crop of software solutions and companies have emerged to tackle big data. In order to better understand the trends, let’s take a look at some of the popular solutions. Read more »
If you’ve been following the data center hardware space for the past year, you might be under the impression that integrated stacks are the future of IT. But it doesn’t look like customers are buying into the promise of having just one throat to choke. Read more »
BroadVision, an enterprise software company that went public not long after Netscape and then spent almost a decade recovering from the Web 1.0 boom and bust, is launching a new SaaS offering called Clearvale, which it says is designed to bring social networking into the enterprise. Read more »
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