My grandfather appears to have grown up in a village in southern India, attended university in what was then Madras, worked as “private secretary” to one of India’s richest men and biggest landowners, the Maharaja of Darbhanga, all on his way to f...
UK2 Group harnesses the power of a centralized intranet to improve cost savings and provide additional resources to employees across the globe The UK2 Group has announced the live deployment of a sophisticated Cloud-driven Intranet system designed...
Big data is hot, but infrastructure-level platforms such as Hadoop, which focus on storage and processing, still need help to take them into the mainstream. They need a killer app or two that will let companies analyze, visualize and act on all th...
Select ratingGive it 1/5Give it 2/5Give it 3/5Give it 4/5Give it 5/5 As more enterprises are adopting clouds, the nature of cloud computing is changing. Previously, clouds were used to test applications or for non-mission critical applications. To...
When I talk on the phone, I've always used my left ear to listen. Listening in the right ear just doesn't sound right. This might be due to being right handed, doing the shoulder hold to take notes when needed. As corded turned to cordless and mob...
Joyent’s SmartDataCenter IaaS platform is going to be sold to Italian VARs and service providers by ICOS, an Italian value-added distributor, for private cloud infrastructure or value-added private cloud services. SmartDataCenter’s local storage i...
Don’t believe it when folks say that the Macworld iWorld show floor is primarily filled with iOS accessories—the community of document scanner makers is quite well represented too. At least seven different companies have scanners on display at thi...
I’m a regular contributor of articles about cloud computing development and strategy to Red Gate Software’s (@redgate) ACloudyPlace (@ACloudyPlace) blog. The following table lists the topics I’ve covered to date: Date Title 1/18/2012 Upload Big Da...
When it comes to procurement, any technology or service should be evaluated with a good set of criteria. Executive decisions should not be weighted solely on a single selection criterion such as price. This applies to any cloud computing service a...
Introduction to the Hadoop on Azure Interactive JavaScript Console (video) The Microsoft Azure deployment of Apache Hadoop for Windows lets you set up a private Hadoop cluster on Azure. One of the included administration/deplo
A compendium of Windows Azure, Service Bus, EAI & EDI Access Control, Connect, SQL Azure Database, and other cloud-computing articles. Note: This post is updated daily or more frequently, depending on the availability of new articles in the follow...
Microsoft has placed Apache Hadoop at the core of its big data strategy. It's a move that might seem surprising to the casual observer, being a somewhat enthusiastic adoption of a significant open source product. The reason for this move is that H...
