Eucalyptus has a new and important milestone, as its private cloud technology goes fully open source with the forthcoming release of Eucalyptus 3.1. Historically, the private cloud company had built its flagship (and proprietary) enterprise offering on top of an open source community edition. Now the company is shifting to a services and support business ...

We’ve already begun to see how big data and analytics can translate into business agility and real results. But while the biggest transformation so far has been in sales, a new infographic from IBM says that marketing is going to be the real tipping point for big data. I’ll let you look at the infographic ...

In the age of big data, log management is becoming an absolute necessity, as developers, operations, and, yes, DevOps have to deal with and process huge amounts of machine-generated data. Many organizations have turned to Splunk, a pioneer in the space, to help manage the rising tide of log data – but Splunk can get ...

By now, you’ve no doubt heard about yesterday’s Amazon Web Services outage (tracked on Twitter with the inauspicious hashtag #AWSpocalypse), during which a power outage disrupted cloud service delivery from its Northern Virginia data center, leaving many customers (as well as Pinterest, Salesforce.com’s Heroku and other high-traffic web services) out in the cold. In lieu of ...

Facebook is such a big fan of Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS) that it stores 100 petabytes of data in a single HDFS filesystem, across 100 clusters – including very probably the largest single cluster of its type. So it’s no wonder that Facebook’s engineering team went out of its way to solve the single ...

The rumor mill is working overtime with suggestions that Microsoft might be purchasing social networking provider Yammer for as much as $1 billion. But given Microsoft’s near-absence from the social landscape, that billion could be a bargain if it ensures the company’s relevancy as the social enterprise market accelerates. Business Insider first broke the story that ...

Big data is heading down the path to becoming a $50 million industry by 2017. And while the incumbent big boys of the tech sector – HP, IBM, Intel, Oracle – dominate the emerging big data market at the moment, I’m here at the Hadoop Summit this week, where legacy vendors, startups, service providers, systems ...

Social, mobile and big data may be the trends driving IT in 2012. But all of those markets have the cloud underpinning them to one degree or another. Cloud services are underpinned by cloud infrastructure which is underpinned by data center infrastructure. The cloud is really just turtles all the way down. But what I’m hearing here ...

The cloud computing market is changing. Previously, the big concerns have ranged from “Is the cloud transformation really happening?” to “Can I afford the cloud?” to “Why would I ever use the cloud?” But Cloud Expo 2012, taken as a snapshot of the industry halfway through the year, shows that the conversation is shifting, with ...

Much has been made already of the new services and features that are coming to the Microsoft Windows Azure cloud. But while everybody (myself included) talks about the new infrastructure-as-a-service and Azure Web Sites components of the enhanced Azure, there’s something interesting going on with Microsoft, Canonical, and the rising market for big data applications ...