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Microsoft raised some eyebrows when Corporate VP Brad Anderson boldly proclaimed that, “Virtualization is not cloud computing.” While this statement garnered a lot of buzz due to its timing – Anderson said this during the VMWorld annual event – that doesn’t make this statement any less true…
EMC, well, at least its Greenplum unit has put together a thousand-node multi-tenant analytics platform to accelerate the development and testing of the disruptive but persnickety open source Apache Hadoop software.
That’s 1,000-odd hardware nodes or 10,000 nodes when you count virtual machines, along with 24PT of physical storage. In a word, that’s huge…
Grazed from ZD Net. Author: Rachel King.
Design is a sector where cloud computing has the potential to revolutionize multiple industries, according to Autodesk, the 3D design software firm and maker of AutoCAD.
Cloud computing has become “completely pervasive, totally accepted and people don’t really think twice about these things now,” explained Andrew Anagnost, vice president of suite, web services and subscriptions for Autodesk…
As the long-anticipated backlash against cloud computing begins, I want to thank technology journalist and IT consultant Frank J. Ohlhorst for making the strongest case yet for the anti-cloud camp… and in the process making the case for the cloud stronger than ever…
If you’re an IT solution provider not into cloud computing, you’re letting a substantial chunk of change pass you by. Spending on public cloud computing generates $21.5 billion in revenue according to IDC, and that number will balloon to $72.9 billion by 2015. You’ve got to play to win, as the saying goes. Here are five ways to approach that very lucrative market…
The current running joke in the IT industry is that everything is labeled “cloud.” Whether data center customers are leveraging the cloud or not, arguably every technology provider is claiming to either “consume” or provide services in the cloud…
Grazed from American City and Country. Author: PR Announcement.
Facing tighter budgets and increased demands for transparency, worker flexibility and customer service, many states and local agencies are moving government IT functions to the cloud. Exactly how to do that will be the focus of a webinar on Oct. 11, 2011, during the State & Local Government Summit….
Several experts from Microsoft’s State & Local Government team will be presenting a session titled, “Soup to Nuts: Harnessing the Complete Power of the Public Cloud.” During the 45-minute webinar, they will explain how agencies can use the cloud to offer interactive citizen portals, increase collaboration across organizations, reduce government IT costs, and more.
Amazon’s cloud computing unit has taken steps to avoid a repeat of the outage of its cloud services platform earlier this year and customer interest has only grown since, a top company executive said.
The outage in April, which knocked out such sites as Reddit and Foursquare, had raised questions about the future and maturity of cloud computing…
Léo Apotheker’s brief inglorious reign at HP only has hours left to run insiders say.
He will be ousted in absentia since nobody seems to know – or care – where he is. He will be the third HP CEO in a row to be fired and the shortest lived.
The board’s next available window to announce the coup is after the market closes today unless the crisis slops over into Friday…
The San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) at the University of California, San Diego, today announced the launch of what is believed to be the largest academic-based cloud storage system in the U.S., specifically designed for researchers, students, academics, and industry users who require stable, secure, and cost-effective storage and sharing of digital information, including extremely large data sets…