I can’t open my email without see a new cloud-based startup pitch (or three), which is why this year at Structure 2010, we’re adding a new feature: the Launchpad. See which 11 companies you could meet this June in San Francisco. Read more »
Allied Fiber today said it has begun construction on the first phase of a nationwide wholesale fiber network that will span 11,548 miles.By combining the pipe, the data centers and cell towers the Allied network could fundamentally change the economics of providing bandwith and encourage competition. Read more »
The SaaS model offers two distinct competitive advantages for software developers — massive economies of scale and sustainable profit streams –- over the traditional model. Yet astoundingly, many firms take the plunge into providing SaaS without understanding the underlying requirements necessary to ensure success. Read more »
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I wrote recently that the time may be right for AWS to launch its own PaaS offering, if only to preempt any competitive threat from other providers’ increasingly business-friendly PaaS offerings. The time is indeed right, now that Google has introduced App Engine for Business. Read more »
Salesforce.com and VMware recently unveiled a Java-focused platform-as-a-service offering, VMForce.com. Meanwhile, Microsoft has Azure, a PaaS offering focused on the .Net stack, and startups Heroku and Engine Yard both deliver Ruby-on-Rails cloud platforms. But who’s going to offer a PaaS for LAMP? Read more »
We’re once again in the homestretch of preparations for our web infrastructure and cloud computing conference, Structure. This year, the event’s third, we have expanded it to two days in order to accommodate an even more diverse range of topics. Read more »
Google has tweaked its App Engine platform as a service to make it palatable for business customers. Today at its developer conference Google launched App Engine for Business, but Google still has a ways to go before it can offer a truly competitive platform. Read more »
Amazon will offer a lower-priced, less reliable storage tier of its popular Simple Storage Service for folks who don’t need the full redundancy of the traditional S3 service, the retailer said today. The service is another way Amazon is changing its pricing as cloud computing matures. Read more »
Nvidia today said its graphics processors will be in a new IBM server used for high-performance computing and webscale deployments. IBM’s iDataPlex servers will combine CPUs with GPUs for faster compute using less energy. As ARM eyes the data center, Nvidia’s success should be a lesson. Read more »
NorthScale, a Memcached-focused start-up based in Mountain View, Calif. says it has raised $10 million in Series B funding from Mayfield Fund. Previous investors Accel Partners and North Bridge Venture Partners also invested. NorthScale has also hired a new president & CEO – Bob Wiederhold. Read more »
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It’s taken a full year and upward of $700 million in acquisitions, but CA Technologies (yes, it’s a new moniker) finally delivered on its cloud-computing strategy with several major product announcements. With these products, CA has set the bar for how management software must act within cloud-connected organizations. Read more »
The PaaS segment of the cloud computing market is hot. Just look at the ado VMware and Salesforce.com created with their VMforce announcement, or the attention Heroku is attracting with its Ruby-centric service. Could Amazon be the next cloud player to enter this market? Read more »
Business Intelligence is a multibillion-dollar market made up of enormous software projects from the likes if various IT giants — think high barriers to entry, long enterprise sales cycles and expensive software licensing. But several cloud-based solutions are in the process of disrupting that market. Read more »
Organizations going down the private cloud path have some tough decisions to make. Most cloud management solutions are merely works in progress at this point, leaving customers with a Catch-22-like situation. Read more »
Marvell, in an effort to cut the power consumption inside enterprise data centers, plans to ship chips for servers that use the same type of processors that power cell phones. Marvell’s ARM-based chips will deliver a five-fold reduction in power compared to the x86 architecture. Read more »
Heroku, a platform provider built on top of Amazon’s EC2 compute infrastructure has raised $10 million for its second round of funding. The money will help Heroku create a partner program to handle the influx of vendors who use the platform on behalf of their clients. Read more »
Michael Capellas, the former CEO of Compaq and the former CEO of MCI, has taken the helm of the Acadia joint venture between Cisco and EMC Corp., which was created last year with VMware to help the three companies market their unified computing system. Read more »
Netronome, which makes networking chips, today said it raised $23 million in an oversubscribed fourth round of funding. As broadband speeds get faster and cloud computing grows, the need for Netronome’s speedy processors, which can route bits despite the tsunami of information, grows. Read more »
We managed to create 800,000 petabytes of digital information last year, according to a study released today by IDC and EMC. The creation of digital data will increase to 1.2 million petabytes by the end of this year, which means we need fatter pipes. Read more »
Clustrix, a Y Combinator grad from 2006, launched today with claims that it has built a transaction database with MySQL-like functionality and reliability that can scale to billions of entries. This is big stuff as scaling databases is a key bottleneck for web services today. Read more »
Cloud computing has played a starring role in the technology press for two or three years, but it’s now moving from the haven of startups or random corporate side projects to the enterprise, so get ready for another round of acquisitions and investments. Read more »
Much has already been written about this week’s VMforce announcement, but my biggest question still hasn’t been answered: Who’s the biggest winner in this partnership -– Salesforce.com or VMware? And who’s the biggest loser? Read more »
Advances in computing and communications are changing the world — enabling huge changes in the way we can develop new materials and derive energy, but as they bring innovation to other areas of the economy those providing the computation and bandwidth must become more efficient. Read more »
ARM plc today confirmed that within the next 12 months its architecture, which is used today primarily in cell phones and consumer electronics, will also be used in servers. Such a move upmarket, will pit the ARM architecture against the lifeblood of Intel’s chip business. Read more »
Building webscale applications is hampered by figuring out how to spread tasks out over thousands of computers without slowing things down or requiring too many people to keep things running. A Berkeley researcher hopes to solve some of those issues with a programming language called Bloom. Read more »
Salesforce.com and VMware have teamed up to offer an enterprise Java cloud called VMforce. The offering, which combines Salesforce.com’s infrastructure with VMware’s software is an indication of a larger trend for infrastructure and platform-as-a-service providers to sell the application, rather than the platform. Read more »
Microsoft this week rolled out its CampaignReady suite of services, anchored by the Windows Azure-hosted TownHall. Especially for local or regional campaigns without the resources to build specialized tools, Microsoft’s pitch should be appealing. But Microsoft’s SaaS-plus-PaaS business model has legs beyond politics, and beyond Redmond. Read more »
Any debate between open or closed systems has to touch on open-source software and the ways companies are attempting to build code as a community effort while profiting off of it in some way. I talked to Mark Shuttleworth about how Ubuntu walks that line. Read more »
MorphLabs made available in the U.S. today its cloud computing solutions, which are designed to let managed service providers enter the cloud provider market as they try to fend off cloud-based competition from the likes of Amazon Web Services and others. Read more »
Google has purchased a stealthy startup called Agnilux. Agnilux was founded by engineers who formerly worked at chip startup PA Semi, and it is supposedly making some type of server. This might prove for webscale there’s nothing like tweaking your infrastructure– from the silicon up. Read more »
Microsoft Research is the first commercial customer of a new optical equipment module made by a seven-year-old tech startup called Lightfleet, which hopes to sell gear that will enable a faster way for servers to send and receive information in highly dense computing environments. Read more »
As much as we hear about virtualization, it can be surprising to get actual numbers on deployments and realize how low they remain — just 18-19 percent of workloads on enterprise x86 servers have actually been virtualized, according to new data released by Lazard Capital Markets. Read more »
Fusion-io, a maker of specialty solid-state storage drives, has raised $45 million in a third funding round, bringing its total investment to $111.5 million. The company is succeeding because webscale businesses and cloud computing need its gear that speeds up access to stored data. Read more »
Cloud computing — where mega-data centers serve up webmail, search results, unified communications, or computing and storage for a fee — is top of mind for enterprise CIOs. But cloud adoption will depend less on the technology involved and more on strategic and economic factors. Read more »
Google announced plans for it’s Cloud Print service, but the whole idea appears foggy at best. When you look at the idea from the perspective a mobile user, it’s clear that Cloud Print could be the next major advancement in the printer industry. Read more »
Marvell is going to Hollywood next week in an effort to show the film industry what it’s missing because the U.S. has such slow broadband speeds. The chip firm wants the film industry to agitate for broadband speeds of up to 2.5 gigabits per second. Read more »
Twitter will move into its own data center soon as it seeks to scale its social messaging service. Speaking at the Chirp developer conference yesterday in a session on scale, John Adams, a Twitter engineer, laid out Twitter’s strategy to keep the fail whale at bay Read more »
When talking about cutting-edge topics like cloud computing and web infrastructure, it can be easy to let startups and niche vendors dominate the discussion. In the first quarter, however, the IT infrastructure market was all about the big boys. Read more »
Microsoft may be testing servers that use cell-phone chips instead of Intel or AMD silicon in addition to solid-state storage drives for its online services division, which operates sites like Bing, most likely in an effort to drive down energy costs without sacrificing performance. Read more »
The Florida State Department of Juvenile Justice will use predictive analytics software from IBM to predict which of its juvenile offenders are likely to return to crime. Sounds like Minority Report, but get ready for cloud computing and real-time data analytics to usher in new surveillance technologies. Read more »
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