Cloudera and Dell are announcing today an end-to-end, open-source Hadoop cluster. The offering integrates Cloudera’s Hadoop distribution with Dell’s servers. Is there anything hotter than Hadoop? Yahoo spun out its Hadoop group to form HortonWorks earlier this summer. In the spring, EMC announced how it is fitting Hadoop with Greenplum, its data warehouse product. With ...

The July 12 VMware launch for vSphere 5 was comprehensive in its scope. But much of what it offered was overshadowed by changes to its vRam licensing model  that aligned costs with the benefits of virtualization rather than with the physical attributes of each individual server. Today, VMware made a turn around and adjusted the vRam ...

A cloud service for the banking world is launching with the capability to serve 100 million customers in emerging and established markets. The service from Polaris Software Labs will allow the Chennai-based  financial technology company to offer its infrastructure and banking products on a  pay-per-use basis. Polaris built the infrastructure in partnership with IBM and ...

The worst online attack in history is being uncovered and what we are learning is startling.  In all, there is evidence of 72 networks being infiltrated, including the United Nations, 14 governments and major defense contractors. It’s being dubbed Operation Cyber Rat. And the attacker looks like China. It makes Anonymous and LulzSec look like ...

Appistry, a cloud solutions provider out of St. Louis, has closed a Series D $12 million round of funding. Appistry is best known for CloudIQ, its open platform designed for customers to create high-performance analytical applications used in the life sciences, banking, intelligence and defense fields. The round was lead by Xome Capital. Stuart Mill and ...

CumuLogic announced the public beta of its Java platform today, citing its capabilities for running on multiple infrastructures. The product provides support for multiple clouds which include VMware, Amazon EC2, Cloud.com (Citrix) and Eucalyptus. OpenStack will soon be supported, too. CumuLogic is also highlighting the ability to mix-and-match middleware software components which enable the deployment of ...

It’s tough to be a systems administrator.  System Administrstor Day 2011 comes and goes with no fanfare here. But I feel I have to give a bit of credit to the IT guy who responds to the never ending run of calls with a never ending supply of patience. So, here’s a listing from a ...

The world looks so rosy from the Web. You live on the Web all day and you can’t fathom how anyone would choose otherwise. But if you have ever worked on a growing team, it gets a bit more complex. Who is going to manage it all? Now just think about any large IT organization ...

I was talking with Sugar CRM CEO Larry Augustin before one of the OSCON keynotes this week and he started talking about who he would like to hire. What he said in many respects reflects the need for developers to have more experience in provisioning and deploying to the cloud.  The job postings on Indeed.com ...

Dave Cahill wrote an excellent post on Wikibon today about gateway storage and how these providers may become the next generation storage systems. Cahill writes that historically a wave of disruption is flattened as the entrenched legacy providers build features that essentially provides what the new players were hoping would be their way to stake ...