Author: David

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…

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…

Nebula, developers of an OpenStack-based hardware appliance that will allow all businesses to easily, securely and inexpensively deploy large private cloud computing infrastructures, today announced that the OpenStack Dashboard project it is leading is now a core component project of OpenStack as of today’s "Diablo" release, the fourth major release of the open source cloud platform. OpenStack Dashboard is a web-based user interface that manages OpenStack services…