The network is detaching from the physical hardware and leading to the biggest change in network operations that the market has not seen in 25 years. It’s not a question of if this will catch on. It’s a matter of when and how fast. There are a few companies on the edge of this trend. ...

HP will launch a cloud identity service on Feb. 7, providing a universal access point and authentication to all HP cloud services and OpenStack’s identity-based Keystone API. According to an HP Web site, the new identity service will serve as a foundation layer to build and grow its capabilities for HP Cloud Service offerings with ...

NetSuite posted record earnings for the fourth quarter and 2011 fiscal year. The ERP SaaS provider had $64.1 million in revenues, representing a 23% increase over the prior year. Total revenue for the year was $236.3 million, a year-over-year increase of 22%. NetSuite represents how fast the ERP SaaS market is growing. Here’s a summary ...

What’s the Twitter sentiment for New York Giants Quarterback Eli Manning and New England Patriots Quarterback Tom Brady? IBM and the University of Southern California Annenberg School of Journalism did sentiment analysis to determine how people are judging the two before Sunday’s Super Bowl. According to its analysis of 600,000 tweets, Brady has a 62% ...

You get a picture of the lucrative business Google Apps has become with Cloud Sherpas, which was named Google’s 2011 Enterprise Partner of the year this week. Just take a look at the four-year-old company’s growth during the past year: 300% growth (third consecutive year) New regional offices on New York, Chicago and Austin. Acquired cloud service ...

NoOps – look up the term on Twitter search and you’ll see tweets such as this: @GeorgeReese: “NoOps is as stupid a term as NoSQL.” @allNoOps: “beats “cloud”, “agile”, and “SOPA” as the dumbest marketing term ever coined in my field. @DevOpsBorat: “In startup we have NoOps. All sysadmin request are go direct to CEO.” ...

On theCube at NodeSummit, RedMonk Co-Founder Stephen O’Grady said that Node.js is showing incredibly fast adoption, almost without precedent. Most frameworks and programming languages take years to reach the trough of disillusionment. Node.js has reached it faster than any other technology has and at this point may have skated into a more mature phase with ...

EMC is building Hadoop into Isilon, its network attached storage. The new offering will package EMC Greenplum with Isilon to create a solution that allows for a storage infrastructure that comes with Hadoop. EMC is betting that customers want Hadoop built into their existing storage. In their view, customers do not have the confidence in ...

Microsoft’s transformation to a cross-platform services provider tells a story about a company that realizes abundance, not scarcity, is driving the market. During Microsft’s dynasty days, its Windows operating system dominated the software landscape. It could squelch competition by encompassing similar features into its expansive Office suite. That is until the little penguin showed up. ...

Amazon Web Services launched AWS Cloud Gateway today, which connects on-premise software appliances with cloud-based storage. It heralds the rise of cloud services for back up storage and an example of the challenges traditional storage players face as automated services replace traditional IT functions. (Read John Furrier’s post this morning for more perspective about the ...