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Google Drive already referenced in Google Docs code

By Feb. 9, 2012, 12:45pm PT 2 Comments

Google is getting ready to launch its very own cloud storage product, and the actual launch could happen very soon: Code referencing the Goole Drive has already popped up in Google Docs, where users can soon add shared items to their own Drive. Read More »

Cloudscaling wants to make OpenStack webscale

By Feb. 9, 2012, 12:33pm PT 4 Comments

Cloud computing consultancy Cloudscaling is realigning its business around the open-source OpenStack framework, and it has a message for the world: If you want to use open-source software but operate like Amazon Web Services, we’re your man. Read More »

Report: Google gets Drive cloud storage ready to roll

By Feb. 8, 2012, 9:41pm PT 11 Comments

Google is close to announcing its own long-rumored cloud storage service for consumers, according to a report in The Wall Street Journal. The new Google Drive — which would offer some storage free — would compete head on with existing services like Dropbox. Read More »

Which companies will EMC’s Project Lightning strike?

By Feb. 7, 2012, 1:00pm PT 2 Comments

With its Project Lightning server-side flash cache, aka VFcache, EMC hopes to show itself as a forward-looking storage provider. But until it loses its big box, scale-up mentality, it won’t be much of a factor in webscale data centers that go for scale-out everything. Read More »

What it really means when someone says ‘Hadoop’

By Feb. 6, 2012, 12:12pm PT 9 Comments

Hadoop features front and center in the discussion of how to implement a big data strategy, one of the biggest trends in IT. There’s just one problem that keeps cropping up: many people don’t seem to know exactly what it means when somebody says “Hadoop.” Read More »

Startup takes on cloud overprovisioning

By Feb. 5, 2012, 9:10pm PT 1 Comment

As more companies put workloads on Amazon Web Services or other public cloud platforms, many are paying for more cloud than they need. That overprovisioning is the problem Cloudyn, an Israeli startup, is taking on with its new software as a service. Read More »

How the law dictates data gravity in the cloud

By Feb. 5, 2012, 9:00am PT 1 Comment

For the most part, cloud-related laws on the books or in the works right now are almost entirely about data, and data has “gravity.” The more important it is, the more likely services and applications are going to move to the data, rather than vice versa. Read More »

More Must Reads
Want to build a business? You need an IT ecosystem.
By Mark Thiele, Switch Feb. 4, 2012, 12:00pm PT 18 Comments

Just thirty years ago, innovation in almost any category was measured in years, but today it’s measured in weeks or months. That cycle will continue to accelerate, especially in IT. So here’s how to build an IT ecosystem that can keep up. Read More »

Why is Amazon hiring like a drunken sailor?
By Feb. 1, 2012, 7:10am PT 10 Comments

The most striking thing about Amazon’s Q4 filing was that head count was up a whopping 67 percent to 56,200 full- and part-time employees, compared with 33,700 from a year ago, according to Amazon’s 8-K filing; 67 percent is a very big number — even for… Read More »

SaaS valuations come back to earth — sorta
By Feb. 1, 2012, 5:14am PT No Comments

It looks like some of the bloom is off the SaaS rose. New numbers show the booming growth in valuations of SaaS companies is slowing after a long run-up as pure-play SaaS companies face more competition from legacy players. Read More »

Why 2013 is the year of ‘NoOps’ for programmers [Infographic]
By Jan. 31, 2012, 3:00pm PT 12 Comments

AppFog CEO Lucas Carlson isn’t shy about touting PaaS as the ideal way for developers to access cloud computing resources, but he also knows it’s not mainstream. In this inforgraphic illustrating the evolution of cloud computing, Carlson says PaaS will hit its stride in 2013. Read More »

EMC delivers on Isilon-Hadoop bundle
By Jan. 31, 2012, 9:28am PT 2 Comments

As promised, storage kingpin EMC has integrated its Isilon NAS product with Hadoop in a way that will bring Isilon’s OneFS file system to bear on data. EMC isn’t alone. Vendors from Amazon to Oracle are trying to tame this big data beast. Read More »

Node.js head takes a breather, will momentum stall?
By Jan. 30, 2012, 3:09pm PT No Comments

Ryan Dahl, the creator of Node.js, says he is taking a break. Dahl said he is stepping back from day-to-day Node.js gatekeeping duties, which will now be handled by Joyent’s Isaac Schlueter. Will this leadership change dampen momentum? Read More »

While Amazon courts enterprises, Microsoft eyes startups
By Jan. 30, 2012, 12:00pm PT 3 Comments

Microsoft announced a partnership with TechStars today that will allow it access to more than 400 startups around the world so it can sell its Azure cloud platform. But as Microsoft tries to sell startups on its services, can it compete against Amazon? Read More »

Will the cloud ‘hit the wall’ without good integration?
By Ross Mason, MuleSoft Jan. 28, 2012, 12:00pm PT No Comments

There are currently well over 2,000 SaaS vendors by some counts, and according to Gartner over 95 percent of companies have expressed interest in maintaining or increasing their current SaaS usage. The success of this first generation of SaaS and cloud vendors has sparked a “Cloud… Read More »

The top 10 trends from the year’s big smart grid show
By Jan. 26, 2012, 9:35am PT 5 Comments

One of the year’s largest smart grid conferences — DistribuTECH — closes today in San Antonio, Texas. It’s like the CES for utilities, power companies and the vendors that are trying to sell them stuff. Here are the top 10 trends I took away. Read More »

Davos does data
By Jan. 26, 2012, 6:20am PT 2 Comments

Big data has gotten very, very big if the elite talking heads at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, are talking about it. And they are talking about it. Sessions include “Decoding the data deluge” and “Personal data: the ‘new oil’ of the 21st century.” Read More »

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