By Bernard Golden (from CIO.) “When I was a kid, Miller Lite ran an endless series of commercials in which former sports greats debated the merits of the beer. One would assert that the best thing about the beer is its smooth, rich flavor. No, the other would respond, the best thing about the beer...
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By Charles Babcock (from Information Week.) “Public cloud computing is often discussed in simplistic terms when it comes to a crucial interest group: developers. It’s either plain-vanilla infrastructure as a service (IaaS), or a specialized platform with built-in tools for developers, a.k.a. platform as a service (PaaS). In fact, says Forrester Research, both types...
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By Christopher Mims (from Quartz.) “Amazon is famously reticent about sales figures, dribbling out clues without revealing actual numbers. But it appears the company has left enough hints to, finally, discern how much revenue it makes on its cloud computing business, known as Amazon Web Services, which provides the backbone for a growing portion of...
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By Craig Chapple (from Develop.) “Lack of online requirement will not deter devs from adopting cloud functions, says Yoshida PS4 developers will be able to offload some computing calculations to remote servers through the cloud, Sony’s worldwide studios president has said. Much like the cloud capabilities that have been touted by Microsoft for the...
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By Charles Babcock (from Information Week.) “Red Hat is offering companies with a big stake in Linux an alternative to building their private clouds with either VMware or Windows Server. It’s combined its Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) with the open source code modules of OpenStack to produce its own cloud computing platform. In...
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By Mike Rogoway (from Oregon Live.) “CenturyLink has acquired a Portland startup called AppFog and will integrate it into a subsidiary called Savvis, according to several sources familiar with the deal, reported earlier tonight by GigaOm. AppFog founder Lucas Carlson declined comment, and CenturyLink did not immediately respond to an inquiry about the deal. The...
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From Daily Finance. “Intel Corporation today announced the Intel® Solid-State Drive DC S3500 Series, its latest solid-state drive (SSD) for data centers and cloud computing. Designed for read-intensive applications such as Web hosting, cloud computing and data center virtualization, the Intel DC S3500 Series is an ideal replacement for traditional hard disk drives (HDD), allowing...
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By Ucilia Wang (from Forbes.) “Cloud computing — using a centralized data center to process and store you data so that you can access them wherever you are — is supposed to be more cost effective and environmental friendly than conventional data centers. But how do you quantify those benefits? Researchers at the Lawrence...
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By Ted Samson (from Info World.) “Managing an IT infrastructure has become increasingly complex over the past decade. System admins don’t just have to worry about ensuring that a few dedicated servers tucked away in a closet are always up and running — or even a few virtual machines alongside physical ones. Now admins...
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By Seth Payne (from Read Write.) “Big Data, just like Cloud Computing, has become a popular phrase to describe technology and practices that have been in use for many years. Ever-increasing storage capacity and falling storage costs – along with vast improvements in data analysis, however, have made Big Data available to a variety...
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