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Barb Darrow Oct 16, 2012 (Jun 9, 2020) -- Blog Post

Why cloud washing is evil, or at least annoying and potentially harmful

European hosting companies and service providers are hurting their cause by offering the same old services but with the word "cloud" attached, according to Flexiant founder Tony Lucas.…

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Cloud & Infrastructure, Europe, Technology
Chris Albrecht Jul 23, 2012 (Jun 9, 2020) -- Blog Post

Why VMware bought Nicira? Two videos to watch

VMware is paying a whopping $1.26 billion for Nicira Networks in an attempt to get a piece of the emerging markets - software defined networks and software defined data centers. Two video from our Structure conference archives get you upto speed on those two trends.…

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Technology
Derrick Harris Jun 29, 2012 (Jun 9, 2020) -- Blog Post

PaaS providers, ThroughPuter wants to parallelize your cloud

A startup called ThroughPuter has a message for the world's cloud computing providers: Come talk to us, we can make your cloud fly for serious applications. The company has built a hardware platform designed from ground up to run parallel-processing applications in a multitenant environment.…

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Cloud & Infrastructure, Technology
Om Malik Jun 29, 2012 (Jun 9, 2020) -- Blog Post

As clouds multiply, ComputeNext, a cloud marketplace, emerges

The founders of ComputeNext had a simple idea - soon there would be growing number of cloud service providers, and as more cloud services came online the marketplace would become rife with inefficiency. So they started ComputeNext and launched at our Structure event.…

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Cloud & Infrastructure, Technology
Stacey Higginbotham Jun 28, 2012 (Jun 9, 2020) -- Blog Post

Tempo wants to be the database at the center of the Internet of things

Once we connect 50 billion devices to the web by 2020, what will those devices talk to? Chicago Startup Tempo hopes those sensors will take to its database as a service — depositing their tiny bits of time series data inside its custom database.…

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Cloud & Infrastructure, Technology
Stacey Higginbotham Jun 27, 2012 (Jun 9, 2020) -- Blog Post

GarantiaData and the lure of infinite scalability

Many popular sites use memcached and/or Redis as part of their back-end infrastructure. Both technologies are popular ways to store data that needs to be easily accessible, and both require compromises. GarantiaData, a Tel Aviv-based startup wants to eliminate some of those compromises.…

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Cloud & Infrastructure, Technology
Katie Fehrenbacher Jun 26, 2012 (Jun 9, 2020) -- Blog Post

Cluttr dials down data center energy on demand

Data centers don't have to be powered by a solar farm to be smart about their energy consumption -- often times it's the far less glamorous choices that can lead to energy savings. Those are the choices that Belgian startup Cluttr is helping data center operators make.…

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Cleantech, Cloud & Infrastructure, Science & Energy, Technology
Eliza Kern Jun 25, 2012 (Jun 9, 2020) -- Blog Post

Cirro makes big data manageable with smart set of tools

For companies looking for easier solutions for managing big data, Cirro offers an interesting set of products that allow non-technical analysts to manage large sets of data and access them through basic desktop applications like Microsoft Excel. Their mission is to "bring big data to the desktop."…

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Cloud & Infrastructure, Technology
Mathew Ingram Jun 25, 2012 (Jun 9, 2020) -- Blog Post

Stormpath wants to add plug-and-play security to your cloud

Running a business that stores data in the cloud is becoming popular, but many of the security aspects of a large user base are things that companies still want to do on their own. Stormpath, which won the "people's choice" award during the Launchpad competition at GigaOM's Structure conference, was founded to solve that problem.…

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Cloud & Infrastructure, Technology
Barb Darrow Jun 22, 2012 (Jun 9, 2020) -- Blog Post

Microsoft’s Nadella to Rackspace: Let’s talk cloud interoperability

Satya Nadella, who leads Microsoft's Azure effort, said he would welcome the chance to sit down with Rackspace president Lew Moorman to hash out how to make it easier to move workloads between the companies' respective clouds and ease cloud lock-in fears.…

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Cloud & Infrastructure, Technology
Derrick Harris Jun 22, 2012 (Jun 9, 2020) -- Blog Post

Meet Launchpad winner Keen: Big data for little devices

The thinking behind Keen.io is pretty simple: No one should have to build their own analytics infrastructure, especially not mobile developers. So Keen built an analytics infrastructure for them -- well enough to win over the judges at GigaOM's Structure Launchpad competition on Wednesday.…

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Apple, Cloud & Infrastructure, Mobile, Technology
Janko Roettgers Jun 21, 2012 (Jun 9, 2020) -- Blog Post

Will using Dropbox put your CEO in jail?

With everything moving to the cloud, companies suddenly find themselves confronted with a whole new set of challenges. For example: Is that stuff even legal? And who calls the shots when companies move to the cloud - IT, or the people that actually need things to work?…

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Cloud & Infrastructure, Technology
Eliza Kern Jun 21, 2012 (Jun 9, 2020) -- Blog Post

Box’s Aaron Levie: The recession has helped enterprise cloud adoption

While the use of cloud technology to manage big data on the enterprise level now seems hugely popular, this technology beenfitted greatly from the recession-era changes in thinking toward the cloud as a whole, said Aaron Levie, co-founder and CEO of Box, at GigaOM's Structure conference.…

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Cloud & Infrastructure, Technology
Ryan Kim Jun 21, 2012 (Jun 9, 2020) -- Blog Post

Vendor lock-in and the challenge to Platform as a Service

Platform as a Service has a bright future but one of the big concerns is vendor lock-in, preventing companies from making their applications portable. That's going to be one of the big challenges for PaaS to grow.…

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Cloud & Infrastructure, Technology
Stacey Higginbotham Jun 21, 2012 (Jun 9, 2020) -- Blog Post

3 things I learned about Node.js at Structure 2012

Node.js the event-driven programming language that is the darling of the real-time web world, is many things but it's not a good business, nor is it applicable for all use cases, according to two panelists speaking in San Francisco at Structure 2012.…

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Cloud & Infrastructure, Technology
Katie Fehrenbacher Jun 21, 2012 (Jun 9, 2020) -- Blog Post

The infrastructure of the future will be programmed

"Infrastructure of the future will be programmed," says Dante Malagrinò, Co-Founder and CEO of Embrane, at GigaOM's Structure conference on Thursday.…

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Cloud & Infrastructure, Technology
Eliza Kern Jun 21, 2012 (Jun 9, 2020) -- Blog Post

When it comes to big data, don’t forget about video

The term "big data" might conjure images of spreadsheets and numbers, but Rebecca Jacoby, CIO and SVP of Cisco(s csco), told audience members at GigaOM's Structure conference not to forget about one important type of that data — video.…

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Cloud & Infrastructure, Technology
Janko Roettgers Jun 21, 2012 (Jun 9, 2020) -- Blog Post

Netflix exec: The master copy of our data is in the cloud

Netflix stores the master copy of its data in the cloud, and the company's director of architecture Adrian Cockcroft thinks that startups should do the same thing. Cockcroft shared some of Netflix's experiences with AWS as part of a guru panel at GigaOM's Structure conference.…

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Cloud & Infrastructure, Media, Technology, Video
Bobbie Johnson Jun 21, 2012 (Jun 9, 2020) -- Blog Post

Is OpenFlow an answer looking for a problem?

OpenFlow may be a hot topic in cloud computing right now, but not everyone believes it is mature enough to be used in real-world networking situations.…

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Cloud & Infrastructure, Technology
Katie Fehrenbacher Jun 21, 2012 (Jun 9, 2020) -- Blog Post

Where in the world is my data center?

Data center operators are looking to differentiate themselves on efficiency and geography, says Kevin Timmons, the CTO of co-location data center operator CyrusOne, at GigaOM's Structure event on Thursday.…

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Cleantech, Cloud & Infrastructure, Science & Energy, Technology
Ki Mae Heussner Jun 21, 2012 (Jun 9, 2020) -- Blog Post

Enterprise CIOs: Have you met your ‘shadow IT’ department yet?

Enterprise CIOs may not think that their company is making use of the public cloud. But little do they know, their business colleagues may already be leaning on a “shadow IT” department supplied by outside service providers.…

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Cloud & Infrastructure, Technology
Kevin Fitchard Jun 21, 2012 (Jun 9, 2020) -- Blog Post

If AWS is the Walmart of cloud, is OpenStack the Soviet Union?

The stage was set for a lively debate between public cloud rivals at GigaOM’s Structure conference. OpenStack co-founder Chris Kemp challenged his Citrix and Eucalyptus on their “closed” cloud implementations and embrace of Amazon Web Services’ API, which he compared to the Walmart of infrastructure.…

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Cloud & Infrastructure, Technology
Barb Darrow Jun 21, 2012 (Jun 9, 2020) -- Blog Post

Microsoft’s Nadella: We will democratize big data

Microsoft plans to bring big data to the little guy, said Satya Nadella, the executive directing the company's gigantic Windows Azure cloud effort. It's backend work with Hadoop is a big piece, but the linkage to Excel will bring big data to the masses.…

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Cloud & Infrastructure, Technology
Stacey Higginbotham Jun 21, 2012 (Jun 9, 2020) -- Blog Post

Like Netflix, Facebook is boosting its edge network

Facebook is boosting its edge network with its own servers to speed the delivery of its photos according to Frank Frankovsky, a VP at the social networking company. Frankovsky outed his plans onstage at the structure 2012 event and explained how he hopes to scale.…

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Cloud & Infrastructure, Edge & Networking, Technology

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