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OpenStack Gains Traction in Australia

NEWS By TAVIS J. HAMPTON14 YEARS AGO

Australia is becoming an emerging hub of expansion for OpenStack, as the open source cloud platform has gained significant traction in the country. The young cloud market in Australia is ripe for the picking, and OpenStack has managed to make an impact. …

Problems Continue for Apple’s iCloud Service

NEWS By TAVIS J. HAMPTON14 YEARS AGO

Apple’s iCloud service has received mixed reviews from Apple customers who normally unconditionally love all Apple products. Those reviews have ranged from complete adoration to disgust, including one user who lost everything after an iCloud hacker gained access to his account. Its …

White House Releases Open Source Petition App on Github

NEWS By TAVIS J. HAMPTON14 YEARS AGO

The United States government has plenty of secrets, but the source code for its new online petition voting software is not one of them. Friday, the Obama administration announced that it would release the software on Github for anyone, including other governments, …

QLogic’s New Adapter Cards to Have Built-in Flash Caches

NEWS By TAVIS J. HAMPTON14 YEARS AGO

QLogic’s newest server adapter cards will come with flash storage built into them, transforming them into PCIe-connected flash caches. The cache is designed to reduce I/O waits that delay CPU performance due to disk latency or network cross times. The adapter cards …

Rackspace Introduces Cloud Monitor

NEWS By TAVIS J. HAMPTON14 YEARS AGO

Rackspace has launched a new monitoring service intended for customers who want a closer look at their cloud infrastructure and how it works. Rackspace Cloud Monitoring is a service born out of Rackspace’s acquisition of Cloudkick back in 2010. The service will …

Sqrrl Makes the Case for Another NoSQL: Accumulo

NEWS By TAVIS J. HAMPTON14 YEARS AGO

Recently, Wikibon’s Chief Analyst, Dave Vellante, had a talk with Oren Falkowitz, CEO of big data startup Sqrrl, about the company’s development and work on the open source project Accumulo. Although there is no shortage of open source NoSQL projects, Falkowitz made …

Experts Debate Strategy in Hadoop Turf Wars

NEWS By TAVIS J. HAMPTON14 YEARS AGO

The theory goes something like this: an open source project is somewhat like an unclaimed turf in a gang war. The gang that can claim the turf will essentially control all flow of cash and illegal goods in and out of the …

Amazon’s Glacier: Cheap, Slow, and Ready to Go

NEWS By TAVIS J. HAMPTON14 YEARS AGO

In most situations, being cheap and slow is a bad thing, but for Amazon’s new AWS Glacier service, being affordable and slow moving may be exactly what some businesses have been wanting. AWS Glacier provides slow moving storage and operates on the …

Top Big Data Hardware Suppliers in 2012

NEWS By TAVIS J. HAMPTON14 YEARS AGO

Big Data in itself does not always necessitate big hardware, but more often than not, the long-term storage and processing of big data requires hardware that can carry the workload. Many server hardware manufacturers have created specially-configured machines that are designed to …

EMC Looks to Acquire Security Companies in 2012

NEWS By TAVIS J. HAMPTON14 YEARS AGO

News has been circulating the web indicating that EMC may be on the verge of using some of its $5.65 billion in cash to acquire some security companies. EMC COO David Goulden went on record saying that the company is interested in …

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