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IAB Adds Millennial Media CEO to Board, Recognizes Mobile Influence
Millennial president and CEO Paul Palmieri is now a part of the Interactive Advertising Bureau’s board of directors. About 40 online marketing executives are sitting on IAB board, representing major media companies including Amazon, CBS and Disney. Millennial is the latest to have made it to the list, taking credit for a significant milestone for ...
App Development in the Cloud Driven by Users, PaaS Trends
Active Endpoints posted a recording of a keynote entitled “Leveraging the Cloud in the Development Environment” from recent MassTLC’s Software Development Summit. One of the speakers was Active Endpoints CTO Dr. Michael Rowley, who discussed the state of app development in the cloud with three other executives in the industry. Active Endpoints provides a cloud-based ...
How Did 2011 Stack Up to Last Year’s Predictions?
Wikibon head Dave Vellante wrote up a blog post that covers his outlook for 2012, in addition to providing a reflection on his forecast for 2011. Vellante sees some of the 2011 trends expanding in 2012, in both the enterprise and the consumer space. Big data will continue to be big in 2012, according to ...
Open Source Predictions for 2012: HBase, Hadoop and Rails in the Lead
OpenLogic released its outlook for the open source movement in the enterprise throughout 2012, leveraging eight different metrics to determine where adoption is going to be high or flat, and where will it decline. According to the company, HBase, Node.js, nginx, Hadoop and Rails were the five fastest growing open-source projects in 2011. OpenLogic expects ...
A Milestone for Apache Hadoop with Version Release
The newest version of the MapReduce framework has been released, featuring several improvements for the security branch of Hadoop 0.20.205.0, the current stable version. It’s notable that one of the main enhancements arriving with today’s release is the added stability in large scale deployments, the main type of environment for which Hadoop is used to ...
zColo Acquires 28,000 square foot Las Vegas Facility
Data center operator zColo, a subsidiary of the Zayo Group, acquired MarquisNet’s data center business. The transaction involved the purchase of MarquisNet’s MarquisNet’s data complex in Las Vegas, Nevada for an undisclosed amount. zColo is now managing twelve different complexes across 11 major cities in the U.S. The expansion to Clark County comes as west ...
Android Users Guide Mobile Trends and Hairstyles
We’ve got some confirmation Android has managed to climb its way to the top of the U.S global chart recently. The latest report by comScore found that Android rose 3.1 percent in the quarter ending November this year to 46.9 percent, followed by iOS’s 8.7 percent share – representing a gain of one and a ...
Fusion-io’s Three Big Drivers in 2012
The year 2011 has been very successful for a lengthy list of companies, including flash storage solutions maker Fusion-io. Reflecting on that, Fusion-io outlined three key areas of disruption related to its industry in a blog post late last month. The first area of growth Fusion highlighted in its own contribution to the flurry of ...
This Week in Cloud: Economics with Cost Monitoring, Open-Source Software
Cost efficiency and high utilization belong to the list of the top drivers behind enterprise cloud migration, so this area has naturally not been left untapped. Two different companies have announced updates in this space throughout the past week, including Cloudability. Cloudability is a new startup that takes high utilization to the next level by eliminating human ...
Former HP CEO Scandal Lives On, Confidential Letter Revealed
An eight-page letter sent by celebrity attorney Gloria Allred to Mark Hurd on behalf of Jodie Fisher has been published by Mercury News. Both parties requested that the letter remain confidential, but a Delaware court ruled last Wednesday that it be made public. The letter has become the the center of controversy during the legal battle ...