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Just How Big is the Amazon EC2 Cloud?

Amazon Web Services, the cloud services arm of Amazon.com, plays its cards close to its chest when it comes to the size of their data centers. But a new probe methodology developed by Accenture Technology Labs Research Manager Huan Liu and his team indicates that the Amazon EC2 compute-as-a-service platform may run on as many as ...

Yammer Adds Big Data Social Analytics – Or Does It?

Social network developer Yammer has announced the addition of an analytics dashboard that the company is promoting as bringing big data insights into the social sphere. But is providing the bare minimum of information that users have come to expect from, say, Google Analytics really “big data?” It doesn’t really seem like it. “By giving ...

Appirio: Cloud Makes Global Systems Integrators Obsolete

Narinder Singh, co-founder of cloud integrator Appirio, reached out directly to CIOs in a blog entry today to explain in no uncertain terms just how critical the global cloud system integrator model is to the future of IT – and just how painfully obsolete the existing global systems integrator business has become. “After the first World ...

Mind the IT Skills Gap: Study

A new study from non-profit IT trade association CompTIA indicates that for some systems administrators, the skills gap is wide and deep, with only 7% of respondents saying that their IT staff’s expertise was where they wanted it to be. For comparison, 46%  of the 500 organizations surveyed said their IT staff’s skills are moderately ...

Memo to SXSW Startups: Keep Your Sales Model Simple

There’s plenty of technical know-how on display at this week’s South By Southwest (SXSW) conference in Austin, Texas. But just because some of the apps and services look very cool doesn’t mean that it’s going to translate into commercial success. I’d point SXSW exhibitors looking to make it big at a recent blog entry by ...

Quest Software Spending $2 Billion To Turn Private

IT service provider Quest Software announced on Friday that it’s entered into a deal with private equity firm Insight Venture Partners that will see the company pay a total of $2 billion to purchase its stock back from outside shareholders and return to being a private company. This move was unanimously approved by Quest’s board ...

When Cloud Services Shut Down

The cloud can bring a lot of value to the enterprise that knows how to leverage it properly. But it comes with its own set of dangers, and in many ways, it’s still the wild frontier out there. Case in point: This week, Microsoft and HTC both announced the shutdown of cloud services, leaving dubious ...

Accel Big Data Conference Set for May 9th At Stanford University

Accel Partners has announced that its inaugural Big Data Conference, which promises to “uncover the future disruptive ideas and technology trends in Big Data,” will be held on the Stanford University campus on May 9th. The one-day event will see entrepreneurs, researchers and IT thought leaders converge to discuss how the ability to crunch petabytes ...