Hadoop World: Cloudera Makes More Big Data Friends
Credit Suisse Spawn DynamicOps Enters Private Cloud Game
Assessing the Risks of Cloud Computing
One of the great unknowns about cloud computing is the level of security associated with a cloud platform. To address this issue, Agiliance has launched Cloud Risk Management, a service that IT organizations can deploy on their own private cloud infrastructure or on the IT infrastructure of a public cloud computing provider.
NoSQL Startup NorthScale Becomes Membase Inc.
Facebook’s Jonathan Heiliger to Advise Clustrix
Citrix starts fresh cloud attack on VMware
Can Open Converged Infrastructure Compete?
Book: Behind the Cloud
Now that Do More Faster is out and I appreciate how hard it is to write and publish a book, I read every book through a different (more appreciative) lens. This morning, I spent three hours on the coach and plowed through Behind the Cloud: The Untold Story of How Salesforce.com Went from Idea to Billion-Dollar Company-and Revolutionized an Industry. It was excellent.
Takeaways From the Facebook and Foursquare Outages
Poor data quality ‘concerning many businesses’
A large number of organisations are concerned about the effects poor data quality could have on their business.
According to recent research conducted by global independent software industry analyst the Business Application Research Center (BARC), data quality was named as the issue most concerning business intelligence application end users.
Barney Finucane, a BARC analyst and lead author of the survey, told the Computing website this year’s study is the first time in the annual report’s history that data quality has been in the top position.