Category Archives: Miscellaneous

A recent survey from Wanderful Media and Dimensional Research quantifies how consumer shopping experiences are increasingly driven by online experiences. Data about the effect of online shopping platforms on consumer shopping in brick and mortar stores underscores the importance, for … Continue reading →

Crittercism and UserVoice today announced a partnership that delivers a comprehensive infrastructure which empowers developers to obtain customer feedback and monitor the performance of their mobile applications. Developers can now obtain a 360 degree view of user activity, feedback, inquiries … Continue reading →

Santa Clara-based startup RackWare recently released version 2.0 of its RackWare Management Module as a premier offering within the rapidly growing cloud infrastructure space. The RackWare Management Module (RMM) enables enterprises to optimize their cloud deployments by adding “automated intelligence” … Continue reading →

This past week, OpenStack turned two years old. A year ago, I examined OpenStack’s accomplishments upon the celebration of its first birthday. Since then, OpenStack’s technical and business development progress has been both meteoric and profound. A year ago, OpenStack … Continue reading →

On Friday, Amazon Web Services experienced its second outage in less than a month due to power failures caused by thunderstorms in Virginia. Amazon Web Services products that were affected by the outage included the Elastic Cloud Compute, Relational Database … Continue reading →

Today, HP launched a public beta of its public cloud as part of its HP Converged Cloud solution that features traditional IT, private clouds, managed clouds and public clouds. Designed on the OpenStack open source cloud operating system, HP’s public … Continue reading →

The Linux Foundation recently announced CloudOpen, a technical conference dedicated to open source cloud computing and big data. The conference is intended to provide a forum for the exchange of ideas about the use of open source cloud and big … Continue reading →

Two words describe the stakes of cloud computing today: open source. Despite the proliferation of vendors and the radical prolixity of cloud product offerings, open source remains the world on everyone’s lips in both IaaS and PaaS circles. As the … Continue reading →