The Indian cloud market grew significantly in 2011, reaching between $860 and $912 million, according to a report by Zinnov Management Consulting, a market advisory firm. A large portion of that market growth (78 to 80 percent) was in the private cloud, while 20 to 22 percent came from the public cloud. For India the ...

Over the weekend, Gizmodo writer Mat Honan witness the unpleasant experience of having his iCloud account hacked, all his devices remote wiped, and his Twitter account flooded with inappropriate posts. This is not the first time cloud data has been exploited, and it is certainly not as damaging as some other large scale attacks. But ...

VMTurbo recently announced that it has joined the OpenStack community and plans to integrate its intelligent workload management solutions with the open source cloud platform. By becoming a member of OpenStack, VMTurbo joins approximately 180 other companies that have collaborated to produce an open source cloud computing platform and cloud standards for the industry. VMTurbo ...

Pentaho has announced plans for tighter integration of its Business Analyticis 4.5 with Cloudera Enterprise 4.0 and CDH4. This extension of its partnership with Cloudera is designed to create a complete solution for Hadoop-based data analytics and management. Pentaho also announced its plans to extend its visual studio to Sqoop and Oozie, components of Hadoop. ...

Conspiracy theorists had long warned the world about Microsoft. They told us one day the overlords in Redmond would take over the world, enslaving us all. When Microsoft acquired Skype, many users, especially those on non-Windows platforms, expressed everything from mild concern to outright terror. Time passed, however, and little seemed to change with Skype. ...

MapR Technologies announced today that it has joined the Google Cloud Platform Partner Program as a Technology Partner. MapR, which provides enterprise-level distribution for the open source database system Apache Hadoop, had already revealed plans to make that distribution available via the Google Compute Engine. The move to Google Cloud Platform Partner will give MapR ...

Fujitsu and Hallmark have inked a long-term deal that will see the multinational IT firm manage the greeting card company’s retail software through a retail-as-a-service (RaaS) arrangement. Fujitsu will manage Hallmark’s Retail.net private cloud for ten years and host the software on its own servers. The deal highlights some of the benefits that retail-as-a-service provides ...

Drawn to Scale has entered into a partnership with MapR Technologies Inc. to provide real time Hadoop databases to its customers. With this real time SQL technology, mobile and interactive web applications will have the backing of Big Data and high performance, enterprise-grade databases powered by Drawn to Scale’s Spire and MapR’s M3 Edition. Drawn ...

Wikibon recently released a report that shows intelligent racks have benefits that are both technologically and economically worthwhile. “The Business Case for Intelligent Racks” argues that all data centers should adopt intelligent racks as a standard and that the racks themselves can boost asset management by 70%. Intelligent racks provide data center managers with relevant, ...

MapR, which provides enterprise-grade distribution for Apache Hadoop, has announced the appointment of Kim Williams as its worldwide vice president of services and support. As the new VP, Williams will be responsible for managing MapR’s professional services, support teams, and customer training. Williams joins MapR at a time when big data is big news in ...