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Amazon Explains Their Public Cloud Failure – Outage Causes Outrage
According to the Wall Street Journal late today, Amazon has come clean with a response to their severe outage of the AWS public cloud infrastructure fail that crippled and took out Netflix, Instagram, Pinterest, and other top Internet sites that relied on Amazon for critical infrastructure. Amazon.com had a fail over the weekend that I wrote ...
VMware Acquiring DynamicOps To Up the Cloud Game – Price > $100m
VMware buys multi-cloud manager DynamicOps, a Burlington, Mass developer of software that handles the provisioning and managing of resources for cloud services. Amount was for an undisclosed sum. Rumblings on Twitter say it’s well over $100 million. DynamicOps, Inc. originated as a spinoff of Credit Suisse’s IT unit and has raised around $20m in financing. ...
Play by Play & Commentary: Amazon AWS Outage Shows Public Cloud Warts – Boost for Private Cloud
Last week an Amazon data center went down due to a storm on the east coast. As Forbes reports “Amazon’s Cloud service is having a bad a couple weeks. For the second time in as many weeks Amazon’s East Coast cloud crashed during a severe storm that left 1.3 million in the Washington D.C. area without power. ...
Confirmation: Dell Buys Quest Software for $2.4 Billion To Boost Services
Dell Computer confirmed that they are buying Quest Software, IT management software provider, for $2.4 billion. According to Dell release Dell recently announced the formation of its Software Group to build upon its existing software expertise. The Dell Software Group will add to Dell’s enterprise solutions capability, accelerate strategic growth and further differentiate the company from ...
Apple’s $95 million Android Wet Blanket
Apple just put up $95 million as a bond on their condition of a pre-trial injuction against Samsung (Google). Apple will do anything to stop the massive momentum of Google Android. The case in U.S. District Court, Northern District of California, is Apple Inc v. Samsung Electronics Co Ltd et al, 12-00630. As a ...
Microsoft Azure Cloud: Can They Compete with Google Compute Engine in a World of Cloud and Big Data
With the sweeping global tech impact of social, mobile, big data and cloud, it’s becoming rather clear that Google is poised to rock the cloud Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) market while Microsoft is pushing the Azure strategy as their alternative to the Amazon and Google cloud plays. Google announced at Google IO their Google ...
Analysis: Hortonworks Plays it Smart by Partnering for Mainstream Adoption
Much of the challenge for any early market player, particularly those in open-source software, is the ability to deliver solutions with broad appeal to mainstream customers in a timeframe that meets market demand. Hortonworks is doubling down on its Big Data market development and after just one-year of being in business is today showcasing its ...
Analysis: Hortonworks Puts Stake in Ground with New Hortonworks Data Platform – Focus on Big Deals and Ecosystem Growth
Hortonworks announces Hortonworks Data Platform (HDP). Hortonworks is including all the normal features around a distribution for Hadoop such as Pig, Hive, Ozzie, etc. The key features are the new things that they are providing as differentiators in their open source distribution. The new Hortonwork Data Platform key features include bundling of new software for provisioning, ...
Hadoop Open-Source Community Disrupting The Rapidly Growing Big-Data Market
The HBase conference (HbaseCon.com)in San Francisco was a gathering of the who’s who of open-source technical developers for the most advanced Big Data projects. These elite developers, architects, and open source contributors shared their development and operational experiences with using Hbase and Hadoop in both nonproduction and production environments. SiliconANGLE.com had the chance to cover ...
Mass Governor Creates Big Data Initiative Announces Supports for R&D and Big Data Incubator HackReduce
Governor Deval Patrick today announced the creation of the Massachusetts Big Data Initiative, a number of steps and initiatives that will expand Massachusetts’ position as a world leader in the rapidly expanding Big Data sector. Massachusetts houses some of the biggest industries that can leverage so called “big data” – biotech, information technology, healthcare, academic, ...