6 companies doing big data in the cloud
Grazed from GigaOM. Author: Derrick Harris.
Cloud computing and big data analytics are a match made in heaven. I’ve explained why before, but essentially it’s because the cloud model lets users leverage a service provider’s infrastructure investment and subject-matter expertise without having to build them in-house. Done right, big data in the cloud is like a marriage of managed services and Software-as-a-Service, only using very powerful software…
8×8 Has Lofty Cloud Ambitions
As one of the handful of VoIP players that survived the market shakeout by offering managed and hosted services to SMBs, 8×8 Inc. (Nasdaq: EGHT) is now seeing the telecom industry rush headlong in its direction, designing cloud-based services for SMBs and enterprises…
Examining Green Cloud Claims
Cloud computing is touted as a "green " technology, but this claim fails to take into consideration the full environmental impact of the scalable resource. The energy savings a school can experience by reducing its hardware can be significant, but other environmental factors such as the e-waste disposal and the sources of energy used by data centers contracted by the schools must also be addressed if the traditional green claims are declared valid…
Business Cloud Summit 2011 – The Practical Cloud
The Business Cloud Summit, December 5, 2011, is dedicated to providing content that enables our delegates to choose and deliver Cloud solutions effectively and efficiently within their organisations. The agenda is devised and led by editorial professionals and analysts to ensure that the conference subject matter and discussions are in touch with the latest developments in the marketplace and that meet the real world end user’s needs…
Cloud Migration Company Announces New VP of Engineering
Racemi, a provider of server imaging technology to automate data center operations and facilitate migrations to cloud computing, has announced that it has hired a new vice president of engineering.
Scott Mewett brings nearly 20 years of experience in software development, which includes more than a decade of experience in the design, implementation and management of enterprise class software and services…
Cloud Computing: Traditional vs Big Data Analytics
Grazed from Sys Con Media. Author: Srinivasan Sundara Rajan.
Major IT companies acquiring analytics software and application providers has been the order of the day. We have seen the words ‘Big Data Analytics’ being used in many solutions for the enterprise.
‘Big Data’ is the general term used to represent massive amounts of unstructured data that are not traditionally stored in a Relational form in enterprise databases. The following are the general characteristics of Big Data…
Skytap Wins ‘Best of VMworld’ Award for Self-Service Hybrid Cloud Solution
Skytap, the leading provider of self-service cloud automation solutions, today announced it was selected by TechTarget’s SearchServerVirtualization as a "Best of VMworld 2011" award winner in the public and hybrid cloud computing technologies category.
The "Best of VMworld" awards program recognizes outstanding cloud computing and virtualization products and solutions released in the last 12 months. A team of expert judges, consisting of editors, independent analysts, users and consultants, evaluated nominations based on innovation, performance, ease of integration into environment, ease of use and manageability, functionality, value, and how the nominated technology fills a market gap…
Cloud Computing Hosting Provider NovelASPect Joins the Citrix Service Provider Program
NovelASPect, a leading innovator of hosted application services – including a full line of QuickBooks applications – is proud to announce its new membership in the Citrix Service Provider (CSP) Program, designed to offer strategic partnerships between hosting service providers and Citrix for dynamic, 21st-century cloud computing….
Morphlabs Raises $5 Million in Series C Financing
Morphlabs, the leader in converged Dynamic Infrastructure solutions for the Enterprise, announced today that it has raised $5 million in Series C funding. The round was led by strategic partners BBT of Japan and a private, Indonesia-based investor group. Morphlabs will use the additional capital to fuel immediate deployments in the ASEAN region as well as select deployments in North America, like the recently announced Alchemy Communications operating partnership…
Choose your cloud with integration in mind
Those already working with public clouds understand that integration links should go into existing enterprises systems. For example, customer data entered into a cloud service should be synchronized with customer data in your enterprise systems. Common sense, right?…