The issues with mobile security device management is a many headed beast. It makes sense to bring your iPad to work but the IT dude kind of freaks out. One Friday afternoon I chatted with an IT guy, very senior, who faced a weekend of working through a slew of iPads that he had to ...

Cloudscaling aims to build the super clouds. These are the giant clouds – the ones for such providers as AT&T. To build these new massive services, Cloudscaling is announcing today its own operating system that is based upon OpenStack and its own unique technologies.The company says its Cloudscaling Open Cloud System (OCS) is similar to ...

Dassault Systèmes has acquired Netvibes, the online dashboard services company that began as a personalized news service before transitioning to becoming a tool for companies to view and manage its brand presence. Details of the acquisition were not disclosed. Netvivbes builds dashboard intelligence platform for Fortune 500 brands, enterprises and agencies. Customers include Coca Cola, ...

NoSQL continues to gain adoption, primarily due to the need for it in corporate daily operations and the freedom it provides compared to the rigid schemas associated with relational technologies. That’s the big picture from Coucbbase, which today announced the results of a survey it did with 1,300 practitioners. Couchbase is one of the leading ...

The Canonical Platform Server team has developed a solution for testing OpenStack on Ubuntu. The JavaCruft blog goes into deep detail about the setup. The scope of the work: Per-commit testing of OpenStack trunk to evaluate the current state of the upstream codebase in-conjunction with the current packaging in Ubuntu precise and the current Juju ...

Last week, Revolution Analytics hired Dave Rich as its CEO.  Dave has something in common with CEOs from Basho, Opscode and Zenoss. All come from Accenture where they worked as senior executives: Basho hired former Accenture CTO Don Rippert in In June of last year. Opscode hired Mitch Hill, formerly of Accenture, and most recently ...

More often these days  I hear about the added complexity that hosting providers face when considering adopting an infrastructure of the “cloud variety.” They all pretty much require a level of sophistication. Thus, it’s no surprise that service providers have done fairly well for themselves in building out cloud infrastructures for customers. There’s a lot ...

Last week, Amazon Web Services made the astounding announcement that it had stored 762 billlion objects in 2011. With scale like this, it’s apparent you need efficiencies. And with efficiencies, AWS is recognizing innovations. And those innovations are leading to a new round of price drops for Amazon S3. It’s fascinating to see AWS make price drops ...

Yesterday I posted about the Forrester Wave reportby James Koblieus that ranked Amazon Web  Services, IBM and EMC as the leaders in the nascent Hadoop market. Well, it looks like some vendors have a few critiques. In an Information Week story today, EMC raised some questions about its low software packaging score and Cloudera had this to say: ...

This morning, I listened to an interview Wikibon Analyst Dave Vellente did with Pat Gelsinger, EMC’s COO. Gelsinger and the EMC team thumped on Fusion-io today, casting it as a one-off, to gain attention for VFCache which it launched today with a big event in San Francisco. During his press and analyst announcement, Gelsinger said ...