EqualLogic founder Paula Long talks about how storage could be so much better; why all-flash storage ain't all that and why folks who put all their work on Amazon's cloud shouldn't expect miracles.…
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Europe’s love-hate affair with cloud computing; the week in cloud
The European Commission's Viviane Reding proposes single set of data privacy rules for the whole region and we recap Structure:Europe.…
Read MoreImport.io wins the Structure:Europe 2013 Launchpad
The web is chock full of data, but it's locked away in the form of websites. A startup called Import.io that hopes to unlock that data, won the Structure Europe Launchpad event on Wednesday.…
Read MoreStackdriver nets $10M to keep a wise eye on your Amazon infrastructure
The new cash will help Stackdriver automate not only the monitoring but the remedies to cloud infrastructure snafus, says co-founder Dan Belcher.…
Read MoreLinkedIn open sources stream-processing engine Samza, its take on Storm
Samza is LinkedIn's take on Twitter's Storm engine for stream processing, only built on top of LinkedIn's own Kafka messaging system. It's the latest in a growing line of open source efforts from LinkedIn, and another notch in the belt for Hadoop.…
Read MoreStructure Europe 2013: Is absence of web scale giants a problem for Europe’s cloud ambitions?
When it comes to cloud services, webscale companies such as Amazon, Google, Microsoft, Tencent, and Baidu have an infrastructure advantage, which in turn allows them to sell cloud services to others. What does lack of such giants mean for Europe and European cloud ambitions?…
Read MoreDell mantra: one cloud, not even Amazon’s, doesn’t fit all
For customers fearing ghosts of Christmas cloud outages past, Dell thinks the answer is cloud choice and multi-cloud management.…
Read MoreAmazon goes local with DynamoDB (kinda)
If you're a developer and would like to road-test a DynamoDB app locally without incurring charges, you can now do so, says Amazon Web Services.…
Read MoreXively’s internet of things cloud adds Electric Imp as part of a partner strategy
LogMeIn's cloud platform for sharing data generated by the internet of things has created a partnership program and signed on two new partners.…
Read MoreThe Structure Show: Big data startup edition, from Boston to Burlingame
On this week's Structure Show, Andy Palmer who co-founded Vertica Systems and VoltDB shares what he thinks are the hottest opportunities in the new big data era.…
Read MoreWhen “effortless” is anything but: Today’s cloud washing is all about hybrid
As more companies weigh moves to the cloud, vendors have latched onto the "hybrid" label as a sales tool.…
Read MoreLaunchpad finalist Waymate turns to megacities for transport-booking success
Berlin's Waymate has learned a few lessons since going live earlier this year, chief among them the fact that users need a transport comparison and booking service more for urban situations than for long-distance travel.…
Read MoreWhat do Twitter, Zuora and New Relic have in common? Peter Fenton
Some of the hottest names in technology startups can attribute some of their success to Benchmarks’ Peter Fenton, who has backed Twitter,…
Read MoreJoyent founder Jason Hoffman steps down
Hoffman, a doctor who co-founded the company to help with cancer research, is leaving after ten years.…
Read MoreGoogle reacts to PRISM-induced heebie jeebies; the week in cloud
Google acknowledges new data encryption plan to mitigate PRISM-provoked privacy fears; Aaron Levie sounds off and more in the week in cloud.…
Read MoreDon’t let the lack of press fool you: Europe has a lot of big-time cloud users
It's not just U.S. companies such as Pinterest, Netflix and every SaaS startup under the sun that are running on cloud infrastructure. There are a lot of major European companies and organizations using cloud computing, too. Many of them will be at Structure: Europe.…
Read More4 tips for budding tech startups from New Relic’s Lew Cirne
New Relic, on track to $100M in revenue next year, is the prototypical startup success story. CEO Lew Cirne shares some secrets of its success.…
Read MoreGoogle Apps partner Cloud Sherpas buys into UK market
Cloud Sherpas acquires London-based Stoneburn Software Services to bolster its Google and Salesforce.com application integration business.…
Read MoreBox’s Aaron Levie on mobilizing, conspiracy theorists and who writes his Tweets
On this week's show we talk about Structure Europe, get heebie jeebies over social media stalking and listen to the always entertaining Box CEO, Aaron Levie.…
Read MoreSummer’s over and London’s tech startup scene is heating back up
Bam! The Summer holidays are over. And the East London tech startup scene is back to work, making deals, raising money and throwing parties.…
Read MoreSpanish startup ECmanaged aims to make moving apps between clouds easy
We're counting down to Structure:Europe where ten startups will take the stage and launch. Meet ECManage, a cloud management company that helps you move apps between cloud providers.…
Read MoreCan VMware pull off its second act?
Will VMware be able to replicate the monster success it achieved inside corporate server rooms in the cloud at large? Maybe, but it will have to execute well on many fronts and catch a lot of breaks for that to happen.…
Read MoreTresorit takes on PRISM-provoked worries with encrypted cloud storage
Say hello to Tresorit, a Structure:Europe Launchpad finalist, which says it can lock-down your data and transport it to Windows Azure with no worries about data scooping and snooping.…
Read MorePhysicists spot exploded stars with the help of volunteers’ computers
Around 200,000 volunteered computers donated 17,000 years worth of computing time in an 8 month span, aiding in the identification of 24 pulsars in the Milky Way.…
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