Last week Google developer Steve Yegge accidentally posted publicly a rant on Google Plus that was meant only to be read internally. Last night he posted a follow-up saying that he hadn’t been fired or reprimanded. Yegge didn’t retract any of his previous statements, but did feel bad about publicly trashing Amazon and wanted to ...

Stanford is now offering two online graduate certifications in data mining: the Mining Massive Data Sets Graduate Certificate and the Data Mining and Applications Graduate Certificate. They cost about $10,000 each. Both are part of the statistics department and provide credits that could also be used towards a graduate degree in statistics. Services Angle The ...

Yesterday Oracle announced the acquisition of enterprise search company Endeca. Apart from amplifying what Wikibon’s Dave Vellante calls “urinary olympics” between Oracle and HP (which you’ll recall just acquired the enterprise search company Autonomy, with much derision from Oracle), what does Oracle get out of the deal? A few things, possibly. Database expert Doug Monash ...

VMware Horizon Mobile, which enables employees to use a single Android device for both work personal purposes, now has two carrier partners: Verizon in the U.S. and Telefónica in Europe. But it’s still a long way from being viable as a mainstream enterprise solution. VMware Horizon Mobile platform. It creates a special virtual machine on ...

Zend Technologies, the makers of Zend Server and sponsors of open source PHP projects like Zend Framework and Zend Engine, announced today at its ZenCon event that it is launching a PHP platform-as-a-service called PHPCloud.com. The PaaS is based on Zend Application Fabric and will run on multiple public cloud infrastructures, including Amazon Web Services, ...

Today at its VMworld Europe event, VMware announced new features for VMware Go Pro, an entirely cloud based IT management system. Go Pro will soon be able to scan and inventory customers IT infrastructure, including both physical and virtual systems. These features will take it into direct competition with Spiceworks, which offers a free client ...

There’s no doubt that virtualization has made server administration easier, and some of the core tools of the DevOps movement, like Puppet and Chef, depend heavily on virtualization. Now VMware is hoping to make life easier for system admins again with three new suites of IT management tools, and these new tools smell of DevOps. ...

SPI Research has published a report on professional services pricing. According to a press release, the firm found that “SaaS consulting rates now surpass enterprise software realized rates by a wide margin.” The report is based on a survey of 200 professional services firms. Services Angle Many organizations are looking to the cloud, including SaaS. ...

Today Cloudera and technical computing services company SGI will announce a reseller partnership. According to SGI Director of Product Marketing Sunny Sundstrom, SGI has been providing Apache Hadoop related services since the earliest days of Hadoop. In fact, the company claims to have deployed tens of thousands of Hadoop servers. Ed Albanese, head of business ...

We watch the platform-as-a-service space closely here at ServicesAngle, but sometimes interesting use cases for PaaS can be hard to come by. That makes today’s announcement that SuccessFactors is using VMware’s open source PaaS system Cloud Foundry to enable its customers to extend its applications all the more interesting. SuccessFactors is a software-as-a-service provider that ...