Datacenter Barometer: Building a Cloud Ark for the Coming Data Flood
If you ever have had doubts about the accuracy of all of those predictions about the future of computing being up in the clouds, consider this: according to a new report from IDC, in 2010 the amount of...
View ArticleDroplets: Cloud and Virtualization Links for May 14, 2010
In a move almost weirder than HP buying Palm, last week SAP made a $5.8 billion dollar offer to buy, of all companies, Sybase. Whosiwhatzit? That was the general consensus of the blogosphere when the...
View ArticleDatacenter Barometer: Enter the World of NoSQL, Part 1
When listening to someone describe non-relational databases, it's hard not to think of this particular adage from English poet John Lydgate: "You can please some of the people all of the time and all...
View ArticleDroplets: Cloud and Virtualization Links for May 21, 2010
"As virtualization deployments become more pervasive and IT complexity continues to increase, the burden of monitoring and management must shift away from people and manual processes and into automated...
View ArticleDatacenter Barometer: Enter the World of NoSQL, Part 2
In last week's episode of Datacenter Barometer, you began the journey into the strange and mystical world of non-relational databases... and discovered that this class of database wasn't so strange and...
View ArticleDroplets: Cloud and Virtualization Links for May 28, 2010
LAMP, the underlying architecture of a majority of the world's web servers, may not have to be a vital part of the cloud space. That's the ultimate conclusion of an ongoing conversation started by Geva...
View ArticleDatacenter Barometer: The Next Generation of Open Source Development
This week, for one brief moment in time, my home town has become the center of the open source universe. No, this isn't egoism talking--it's all about the 6th International Conference on Open Source...
View ArticleDroplets: Cloud and Virtualization Links for June 4, 2010
The big news in datacenter land this week had to be the announced reorganization of Hewlett Packard's enterprise services business, coming on the heels of the completed integration of their 2008...
View ArticleDatacenter Barometer: The Last IT Management Challenge
IT management tools work to squeeze as much efficiency and life out of applications and hardware every day. But applications and data can get bigger, and need faster hardware. Since we live in an...
View ArticleDroplets: Cloud and Virtualization Links for June 11, 2010
Hey, did the PC just die this week and we missed the announcement? That's the theme of this VAR Guy article from Dave Courbanou, who sees the lack of any news about the Mac or OS X from Apple's World...
View ArticleDatacenter Barometer: How the Consumer:Creator Ratio Shapes the Cloud
If you are a fan of the Austin Powers movies (and don't worry, you can keep it a secret), you may recall these scenes. Early in the first movie, set in 1967, Austin gets a video call from Basil...
View ArticleDroplets: Cloud and Virtualization Links for June 18, 2010
How social are you? That seems to be the underlying cloud theme in recent days as two significant organizations try to discover the shape of the social cloud. The first, interestingly, is Cisco, which...
View ArticleDatacenter Barometer: BitNami Studio Quietly Launched
The BitNami Project has quietly rolled out the beta for a new tool designed to build custom application and other server stacks online: BitNami Studio. BitNami Studio, which is in closed beta right...
View ArticleDroplets: Cloud and Virtualization Links for June 25, 2010
June 21 is always a bit depressing for me. Here in the Northern Hemisphere, it's the first day of Summer and hence the longest day of the year. That should be a good thing, but it also marks the day...
View ArticleDatacenter Barometer: TurnKey Hub Easily Opens Door to EC2 Cloud Stacks
The list of appliance players that can tap into Amazon's Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) platform is getting bigger every day, as more appliance providers realize that the EC2 marketplace is where a lot of...
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