Two of our interviews yesterday on theCube illuminated HP’s long term goals for the Gen8 line of servers: the one with Dave Donatelli and the one with Gary Thome. Both executives talked about the role of big data and the cloud for HP’s future. Donatelli emphasized that there are multiple stakeholders in this, from HP’s ...

CloudBees announced today the availability of its private Java platform-as-a-service AnyCloud. AnyCloud can be deployed on Amazon Web Services, other public infrastructure-as-a-service provider or on-premise. CloudBees has been promising a private PaaS version for some time. AnyCloud is the latest private/cross-platform cloud offering to come out of the PaaS market. Cloud Foundry, the Cloud Foundry ...

Successful CIOs spend more time on the business side of their job and engaging with business stakeholders than the average CIO. The total number of IT hours worked is expected to drop by 25% by 2015. And cloud computing is expected to save as much as 21% annually. These are just a few of the ...

Today HP announced a new line of ProLiant servers dubbed ProLiant Generation 8, or Gen8 for short. The new line bakes in automation and monitoring tools and comes equipped with a sensor array for optimizing energy use. The idea is to create a new line of idiot-proof servers that “virtually manage themselves.” HP is calling ...

We already took a look at some resources for getting started with Puppet. Now it’s time to take a look at getting started with Chef, one of the other major configuration management tools. Chef is available as both free open source software and in a commercially supported enterprise edition and as a hosted service. Chef ...

PagerDuty was founded by three Amazon.com operations veterans to solve what at first seems like a simple problem: sending server alerts to the responsible person. PagerDuty’s “secret sauce” is that it not only aggregates notifications from several monitoring and alerting sources, but it can manage on-call rotation schedules to route those phone or SMS alerts ...

At the end of the year, we highlighted Cloudant as one of our top underdog startups. It may be an underdog thanks to the rapid growth of MongoDB, but the company reached profitability quickly and according to Cloudant Senior Developer & Architect Sam Bisbee, enterprises are knocking down the companies door. In an interview on ...

Although the main uses of Node.js that we keep hearing about are either real-time messaging systems like Voxer or machine-to-machine communications systems like DTrace, Node.js can also be used for traditional scripting projects like creating content management systems or blog engines. It’s still early, and the tools here are still pretty much geek-only apps for ...

Zenoss is an open source network monitoring and management tool. One of its killer features is the ability to automatically detect and inventory a given network. The enterprise version has become a favorite among DevOps teams, and it’s a package I hear a lot about. Here are a few resources for getting started. Just Jump ...

In 2008 Apple took the idea of a mobile application marketplace and lodged it firmly in the minds of almost every software developer on the planet. The idea wasn’t a new one. Handango started its InHand market in 2003, starting with Symbian apps and later added Windows Mobile, BlackBerry and Palm apps (and Handango was ...