Oracle and Rackspace Embrace Open Source A Bit More
GigOm had two great posts yesterday that are worth a read. The first is from Derrick Harris on Oracle’s Big Data appliance now featuring Cloudera’s Hadoop distribution and management tools. Oracle’s...
View ArticleAmazon Infrastructure Guru Critiques New Japanese Datacenter
James Hamilton — one of the chief architects of the hardware behind Amazon Web Services– has a new post on his Perspectives blog reviewing the Ishikari Datacenter in Ishikari City, Hokkaido Japan. In...
View ArticleDesign Thinking: A New Approach To IT
Chirag Mehta has an excellent post on his Cloud Computing blog discussing his six principles, based on design thinking, that can help any IT project team operate more successfully when it comes to...
View ArticleApple’s iCloud Has Solar Lining
The sun is going to power the iCloud. Apple is building “the nation’s largest end user–owned, onsite solar array” at its Maiden, North Carolina data center, the company says in an environmental report...
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Box’s OneCloud: File-Sharer Spans Apps on iPad
Today, Box.net — one of the many companies that lets you share large files over the internet — introduced a new version of its iPad and iPhone application that lets you view and edit as well as share...
View ArticleMicrosoft Unveils Free Backup Storage for New Windows Server
Microsoft will offer a new cloud backup service with the next version of Windows Server. This week, the company released a free preview of the service. The post Microsoft Unveils Free Backup Storage...
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Google Drive: It’s Back, With Screenshot Showing 5GB
Google Drive rumors have been piling up lately, with the service reportedly on the verge of launching in the first or second week of April. Now one site says it has unearthed screenshots from a Google...
View ArticleDell Gets Wyse With Virtualized Software
Wired Enterprise reports that Dell has announced it will buy the thin client provider Wyse Technology for an undisclosed amount. Dell began life as a PC seller, but in recent years, it has morphed in a...
View ArticleAn In-Depth Look At The History of OpenStack
Wired Enterprise has published an in-depth feature story on this history of OpenStack, “the free cloud software that’s changing everything.” The story opens with the “Rainbow Mansion” — a kind of...
View ArticleCitrix Donates Cloud Software to Apache
There's been a split in the world of open source cloud software. Citrix has parted ways with OpenStack — the increasingly popular open source project for building Amazon-like “infrastructure clouds” —...
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