If you need proof that cloud deployment stories can touch off religious disputes, my recent report about @Walmartlabs deploying 100K cores of OpenStack to run the retail giant’s e-commerce operations is Exhibit A. This is,… Read more »
As someone who takes her cues on net neutrality from Gigaom’s resident expert Stacey Higginbotham or, failing that, John Oliver, this is hard to admit: Mark Cuban may… Read more »
The data team at is opening sourcing some of the tools it uses to analyze data stored in Hadoop. The overall open source project is called Surus, and it focuses on… Read more »
While many tech enthusiasts may still be reeling from last week’s wave of Amazon-related cloud announcements, this week showed that Amazon isn’t the only company making big cloud news. Read more »
Netflix is becoming famous for its open source cloud-computing tools, and two of its senior members explained why on this week’s Structure Show podcast. However, they note, while they love the… Read more »
Open source software is widely available and hugely helpful. But the packaging can be dicey and deployment difficult. So say hey to Netflix’ ZeroToDocker. Read more »
If you paid attention for the last 18 months or so, you’d know that Google’s long-term Chrome strategy is to turn the browser into a framework. On this week’s Chrome Show,… Read more »
VMware used third-party benchmarks to claim that vCHS is less expensive than Amazon Web Services or Microsoft Azure. But really, what would you expect them to show? Read more »
On this week’s Structure Show, Mike Olson talks about why Cloudera keeps a sharp eye on new consumer internet technology and we wonder about Rackspace’s CEO planning now that Microsoft has… Read more »
It’s a very special episode of The Gigaom Show, as Microsoft doesn’t change CEOs very often. We also tackle connected cars and mysterious slowdowns in your online video streaming services. Read more »