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 »
In two weeks, GigaOM’s flagship conference, Structure 2010, will return to San Francisco — for two full days. While you could stay in your office and read about cloud computing, here are eight reasons why you should attend Structure 2010 instead. 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 »
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When Zynga launched FarmVille, it hoped for 200,000 daily active users in the first two months. For each of the first 26 weeks FarmVille added 1 million new users. The story of Mark William’s last two years has been trying to support such unpredictable growth. Read more »
Office Web Apps — Microsoft’s free online version of its Office suite — is now available to users in the U.S., the UK, Canada, and Ireland via Windows Skydrive. To try it out, just head to office.live.com (you’ll need a Windows Live account). Read more »
Printing to a remote device from a handset or laptop can be a challenge if you can’t locate a web-connected printer. As is often the case, the simplest solution the best and HP thinks it has it — new printers with dedicated, simple email addresses. 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 »
Structure 2010, which will feature VMWare CEO Paul Maritz, Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff, Akamai CEO Paul Sagan, and CA CTO Dr. Donald Ferguson, is focused on giving you insight into the next three years. Tickets are nearly sold out, so register today! Read more »
Apple, met with limited success of the Apple TV, has called its device “a hobby” but Google, with its Google TV, is forging ahead with what it believes could revolutionize the industry. So how do they compare? Read more »
Apple’s billion dollar data center being constructed on a 225 acre site near Highway 321 and Startown Road in Maiden, NC could play host to a number of services. So, what are the likely candidates for what Apple will be doing with this new facility? Read more »
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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 »
Next month will see our cloud computing conference, Structure, returning for its third year, which got me thinking about the impact of cloud computing on web working. It is amazing how cloud computing has revolutionized the web working landscape in such a short space of time. Read more »
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 »
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 »
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 »
Structure 2010, the GigaOM Network’s flagship conference devoted to delivering the best insights into the cloud computing industry, returns this year as a 2-day event. One of the core underlying themes will be to challenge the assumptions about the infrastructure on which to build a cloud. 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 »
At Structure 2010, to be held at the Mission Bay Conference Center on June 23rd & 24th in San Francisco, you will learn about all the latest cloud computing opportunities and how to make them work for you. Register today and get $300 off your ticket. Read more »
Structure, GigaOM’s flagship conference, returns on June 23rd and 24th with deep insight into the cloud computing industry. Here are some reasons why you should submit your startup for the LaunchPad, where our selection of the 10 best startups or major product launches take the stage. 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 »
GigaOM’s flagship conference, Structure, returns on June 23rd and 24th for two days of deep insight into the cloud computing industry. Taking place at the Mission Bay Conference Center in San Francisco, Structure 2010 promises to be our best edition yet. 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 »
Proprietary next-generation databases, which lock customers into one vendor, could limit the openness associated with cloud computing. To ensure continued adoption of the cloud, the industry needs to support an open cloud by using open-source database technologies such as Cassandra and Drizzle. Read more »
NetApp’s move to acquire Bycast this week was just the latest investment by a major systems provider in scale-out storage — but are they really ready to ride the commodity hardware cost curve embraced by large web and cloud providers? Read more »
GigaOM’s flagship conference, Structure, returns on June 23rd and 24th for two days of deep insight into the Cloud Computing industry. Register now and receive $100 off your ticket. Read more »
Structure, our premier conference devoted to Internet infrastructure and cloud computing, has been expanded to two days in order to fully explore both the progress the industry has made and how things are expected to evolve going forward. And discounted tickets are on sale now! Read more »
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