Monthly Archives: December 2011

Big Data 2011: The Year in Review

Posted on December 26, 2011 by

If 2011 was the year of Cloud Computing, then 2012 will surely be the year of Big Data. Big Data has yet to arrive in the way cloud computing has, but the framework for its widespread deployment as a commodity … Continue reading →

Posted in Big Data, Cloudera, EMC, Hortonworks, HP, IBM, Informatica, Karmasphere, MarkLogic, Microsoft, NoSQL, Odiago, Oracle, Teradata | 3 Comments

Akamai Acquisition Of Cotendo Sends Shares Up 18.6%

Posted on December 23, 2011 by

Akamai will acquire competitor Cotendo for $268 million according to an announcement on Thursday from both companies. Akamai provides an infrastructure for enterprise grade content delivery over the internet to any web-enabled device. Cotendo specializes in the acceleration of content … Continue reading →

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PaaS Vendor DotCloud Partners With Web Programming Language Opa

Posted on December 22, 2011 by

DotCloud, the Platform as a Service vendor, announced a partnership with Opa, the web development language produced by MLstate. Under the terms of the partnership, DotCloud and Opa will deploy Opa@DotCloud, a platform that offers an integrated environment for programming … Continue reading →

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Cloudant names Derek Schoettle As CEO

Posted on December 21, 2011 by

Cloudant named Derek Schoettle as its new CEO. Prior to Cloudant, Schoettle was VP of Sales at the HP acquisition Vertica. Cloudant provides a data management platform for the analysis of multi-petabyte, “Big Data” sets. Its BigCouch data management platform … Continue reading →

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Nimbula Announces Cloud Migration Service For Transitioning Public Clouds to Private

Posted on December 20, 2011 by

On Monday, Nimbula announced a set of professional services that facilitate the transition from a public to a private cloud. Branded the “Nimbula Cloud Migration Service,” the professional services utilize Nimbula Director, Nimbula’s flagship product that determines the operating parameters … Continue reading →

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Cloud Computing 2011: The Year in Review

Posted on December 18, 2011 by

Whereas Time magazine selected “The Protester” as the Person of the Year, the award for Technology of the Year surely goes to Cloud Computing. 2011 marked the year that cloud computing emerged with force and gravitas onto the enterprise landscape. … Continue reading →

Posted in Amazon Web Services, Citrix Systems, Cloud Computing, Cloud Computing Market Share, Cloud Inter-Operability, Dell, HP, IaaS, iCloud, OpenStack, Piston Cloud Computing, Platform as a Service, Rackspace | 4 Comments

Uhuru Enables .NET Support For VMware’s Cloud Foundry

Posted on December 15, 2011 by

Developers seeking to deploy applications through VMware’s Cloud Foundry Platform as a Service environment now have an option through Uhuru Software Inc’s Uhuru .NET Services for Cloud Foundry. Uhuru .NET Services for Cloud Foundry empowers Windows .Net developers and IT … Continue reading →

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KVH Selected by Tokyo Stock Exchange for “Market Impact View” Dashboard

Posted on December 14, 2011 by

The Tokyo Stock Exchange (TSE) today announced its selection of KVH IaaS as the cloud computing platform to deliver a Beta version of “TSE Market Impact View,” an information delivery service that provides visual analytics to investors and interested market … Continue reading →

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