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Report: The importance of benchmarking clouds
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Read MoreA massive database now translates news in 65 languages in real time
I have written quite a bit about GDELT (the Global Database of Events, Languages and Tone) over the past year, because I think it’s…
Read MoreApache Hive creators raise $13M for their Hadoop service, Qubole
Qubole, the Hadoop-as-a-service startup from Ashish Thusoo and Joydeep Sen Sarma, has raised a $13 million series B round of venture capital…
Read MoreHadoop needs a better front-end for business users
Whether you’re running it on premises or in the cloud, Hadoop leaves a lot to be desired in the ease-of-use department. The…
Read MoreJust how big is Amazon Web Services’ lead? It depends on whom you ask
Amazon Web Services, which debuted in 2006, has a huge lead in public cloud. But it's unclear how long that lead will last, as Microsoft and Google gear up their IaaS efforts.…
Read MoreLive migration won’t help Google cloud customers moving to new European zone
Google is telling affected customers to start moving their workloads to a shiny new European zone and promises new automation tools to help in similar tasks early next year.…
Read MoreYour move, AWS and Microsoft: Google’s cutting basic cloud compute prices 10 percent
Google's taken another whack at compute pricing; expect Microsoft and Amazon Web Services to respond.…
Read More3 areas where Amazon Web Services might be vulnerable (if the competition can exploit them)
Foundry Group Managing Partner and TechStars Co-founder Brad Feld came on the Structure Show this week to talk about why Amazon Web Services might be feeling the pinch from competitors, and how it and other cloud providers should approach their business models.…
Read MoreMore than 250 million global events are now in the cloud for anyone to analyze
The Global Database of Events, Languages, and Tones is a growing trove of information about meaningful events that have happened across the world in the past three decades. Now, it's available to the public to access and analyze using Google's cloud computing services.…
Read MoreDid Google just doom the lot of small-scale cloud providers?
Google has kicked off a cloud price-cutting war with Amazon Web Services, which is a turn of events that doesn't seem to bode well for small cloud providers that will have a hard time keeping up on price, features and scale.…
Read More5 things you probably don’t know about Google Cloud
Not all cloud infrastructure is the same, as David Mytton discovered when he started looking into Google Cloud. The service differs markedly from AWS and SoftLayer in these five key ways.…
Read MoreWhich is cheaper for your work — Amazon or Google Cloud? Ask Cloudyn
New service promises to help companies weigh which of the two giganti public clouds is most cost-efficient for a given workload.…
Read MoreGoogle aims to make it easier to run Hadoop on its cloud
http://googlecloudplatform.blogspot.com/2014/01/easier-faster-lower-cost-big-data-processing-with-the-google-cloud-storage-connector-for-hadoop.html Developers have been able to run Google Compute virtual machines for Hadoop jobs but it was a little bit of a…
Read MoreMaybe big data is the killer app for Google’s cloud
Hadoop is popular and so is cloud computing, so it comes as no surprise that a battle would break out to establish the best place for running Hadoop. Lately, Google has been scoring some victories on the user side.…
Read MoreGoogle Compute Engine is “generally available” and it’s still not Amazon Web Services
Google probably does need to become feature-competitive with AWS sooner rather than later, but that doesn't mean it necessarily needs to match AWS tit for tat. Maybe being Google will actually pay off in the end.…
Read MoreGoogle nixes DNS load balancing to get its numbers up
By using simple APIs and a single IP address to serve traffic, Google Compute Engine claims it can now handle 1 million requests per second.…
Read MoreCoolaData raises $7.4M for Google-Cloud-based analytic platform
Cooladata has raised a $7.4 million series A round from Greylock IL and Carmel Ventures. The company has developed an interesting behavioral analytics service that's powered by Google's various cloud services.…
Read More5 things you should know about Google’s cloud platform
Google cloud platform manager Greg DeMichillie was on our Structure Show podcast this week to defend Google's position in the cloud computing market. He makes some fair points, but will they be enough to lure in developers and companies en masse?…
Read MoreGoogle adds load balancing, SQL-like queries in hot pursuit of more cloud business
Google has announced the availability of free load balancing for its Infrastructure-as-a-Service product and other new cloud features as it looks to rev up and challenge Amazon Web Services.…
Read MoreAmazon cuts prices by 80 percent on some compute-on-demand offerings
Updated: Amazon Web Services cuts prices again -- this time on dedicated EC2 instances and by as much as 80 percent in some scenarios.…
Read MoreWhy Microsoft’s cloud matters: Hint the reason begins with “A” but it ain’t Azure
Satya Nadella says Windows Azure should be on the short list of public clouds that every company -- including AWS-loving startups -- should consider. Here's why.…
Read MorePsst: Even Amazon’s biggest customer would love more clouds
The fear of cloud lock-in still dogs broader cloud adoption.…
Read MoreRightScale sizes up Google Compute Engine
RightScale, which knows a little something about cloud infrastructure performance, put Google Compute Engine through its paces.…
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