Despite multibillion-dollar earnings and the continued birth of new startups, both buyers and suppliers still grapple with what the cloud computing industry will become and what their place within it should… Read more »
True disruption doesn’t mean merely competing. It means changing the structure of markets, the participants within them, and the balance of power. Read more »
The biggest question that public cloud providers must answer today is how to deploy PaaS as a major component of their cloud services. Multiple options exist. Read more »
As the acceptance and adoption of open source technology has become pervasive—some might say has reached fever pitch—for vendors and enterprises alike, the phenomenon has opened itself up to a new… Read more »
If businesses are to extract value from years of history and corporate memory, they must store data in a fully accessible database or data store with access methods that are standards-based… Read more »
With Hortonworks’ acquisition of XA Secure, Hadoop gets some enterprise-level security. It’s a big step, but open-source Hadoop has further to go in its quest for robust, fine-grained access control. Read more »
The argument we’re having today over fast lanes and slow lanes on the internet has echoes of the centuries-long debate over the English Enclosure Movement. Read more »
Enterprise IT managers are watching the open-source cloud infrastructure project OpenStack with interest, hoping it might offer an easy way to begin exploiting the cloud alongside their existing IT estates. Read more »