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Last year, the Structure conference confirmed my beliefs that the community had moved beyond asking what cloud computing is, and was moving toward asking how users can best leverage it. This year, I learned even ... Read more at GigaOM Pro »

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The idea that 3-D content is going to become widespread within the next few years thanks to Hollywood and sporting events isn’t likely, according to Paul Sagan, the CEO of Akamai. He said he’s more concerned about mobile traffic than 3-D traffic at this point. Read more »

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Providers of what’s called platform-as-a-service, or PaaS, face a problem: How do you make it easy for users to grasp the idea of paying for “pieces and slivers” of a platform — the layers of technology underlying a software application? Read more »

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Hey guys, we should really work together, was Intel’s message at Structure 2010 in San Francisco, where GM of high density computing Jason Waxman correctly identified himself as the elephant in the room (something at least one panelist had called Intel earlier in the conference). Read more »

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Network engineers from Yahoo, Facebook, PayPal and Zynga said that startups and other companies need to think about how they are going to scale their infrastructure as they grow. However, they also said companies need to recognize their predictions will probably turn out to be wrong. Read more »

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If Facebook VP of technical operations Jonathan Heiliger were a superhero, his name would be “Scaler-man.” Today Facebook has some 500 million users, twice as many as last July. But even so, Heiliger says the company should have planned better for the challenges it faces now. Read more »

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IBM isn’t looking very far to find opportunities in cloud computing. In its first year offering cloud services, the company has been helping existing businesses in health care and other industries move towards service models for their infrastructure and products. Read more »

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Data — massive amounts of it — are emerging more quickly than ever before thanks to always-on networks and sensors, and companies are increasingly turning to new tools to help make sense of it. But how do you know if your company has hit “big data?” Read more »

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Does the rise of cloud computing mean that traditional SQL databases and solutions are dead, or dying? Not according to a panel of database companies at the Structure conference. Although the “noSQL” movement is gaining steam, most agreed there is still a place for traditional SQL. Read more »

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The GigaOM Network is at the Mission Bay Conference Center in San Francisco again today hosting our annual cloud computing-focused conference, Structure. Our live stream of the keynotes, panels and presentations starts at 8 a.m. Enjoy the show! Read more »

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At Structure this afternoon, 11 LaunchPad companies had just four minutes to present its business to a panel of three judges from the venture capital industry and the audience. CloudSwitch won the judges’ vote as well as the audience choice. Read more »

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Dave Wright, who founded the Amazon S3-based Jungledisk storage service, is back in the entrepreneurial saddle with today’s launch of the cloud-focused SolidFire. It’s building a scale-out block storage offering, which will try to address the growing and vexing problem of storing virtual machine images. Read more »

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A panel of GigaOM Pro analysts said the future of cloud computing will likely involve the development of shared standards for interoperability of private clouds, and that “platform as a service” is the inevitable successor to the SaaS industry that most companies have become accustomed to. Read more »

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There have already been 33 cloud-computing related deals close so far this year. So for entrepreneurs hoping to win the next venture capital investments in the cloud, partners from Redpoint Ventures, Norwest Venture Partners, Accel Partners, North Bridge Venture Partners and GGV Capital offered some advice. Read more »

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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 »

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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 »

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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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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 »

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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 »

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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 »

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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 »

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The GigaOM Network is at the Mission Bay Conference Center in San Francisco hosting our annual cloud computing-focused conference, Structure. Our live stream of the keynotes, panels and presentations starts at 8:30 a.m. So even if you weren’t able to make it to the show, enjoy! Read more »

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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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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 »

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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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For more cloud computing research, see GigaOM Pro (sub req’d). Or join the GigaOM Network at its annual cloud-focused conference, Structure, this Wednesday and Thursday in San Francisco. Infographic by Column Five Media Read more »

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There’s a gold rush mentality going on right now when it comes to building data centers in Iceland, according to execs of the companies that have been moving into that market. The latest person to reference this phrase to me is the CTO of Verne Global. Read more »

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Opscode, a two-year-old startup in Seattle has raised $11 million in its second round of funding. The company, co-founded and led by Amazon’s former Master of Disaster Jesse Robbins, offers a new way of configuring software that exemplifies a change in the way IT is handled. Read more »

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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 »

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Intamac Systems has landed £4 million ($5.8 million) to build up its cloud computing-based system for managing home energy devices, and is looking to both utilities and telecoms to reach into homes. The new money will be used to add new products and services. Read more »

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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 »

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