There is a big connection between Facebook’s large and growing infrastructure budget and advertising, the latter of which is the primary culprit behind many privacy concerns. The gist is that ad-supported… Read more »
As more large data centers move to converged infrastructure — which is offered by Cisco, Hewlett-Packard, Oracle and other vendors — most of the chatter has been about this slick, new… Read more »
Web content that relies on interactivity, social networking and personalization is becoming the dominant form, but it puts particular demands on the network, since it requires a low-latency environment that can… Read more »
Connectivity changes everything. That’s the credo driving just about every corner of our day-to-day lives. As human beings, we are now connected to one another through not just our social networks… Read more »
In five short years, cloud computing has gone from being a quaint technology to a major catchphrase. Amazon and others are now moving at Internet speed, trying to offer better security,… Read more »
In 2010, we saw a number of “outsiders” take their places as some of the most powerful players in the mobile space. For 2011, we will likely continue to see unexpected… Read more »
The question of who’s using Hadoop outside of web companies is fair, but somewhat misguided. Hadoop was born from the web and it was web companies, with their extreme needs, that… Read more »
What Ping aims to create is not a seamless fabric of interconnected networks, but an archipelago of discreet networks joined only by the shared e-commerce functionality of iTunes. It is social… Read more »
The computing world is undergoing a significant shift as consumers and businesses access and store more of their information in web-based applications, get their software delivered as a service or even… Read more »