While some websites were forced offline as a result of Xen hypervisor updates affecting multiple cloud providers, Netflix once again remained up entirely. The biggest fear last weekend was for the… Read more »
Microsoft is expanding its Azure platform again, this time rolling out a NoSQL database service as well as a new search tool. It’s the kind of innovation Microsoft needs to focus… Read more »
The week in cloud. If you want to know how big your favorite vendor’s cloud business is — in scale, in revenue, in profitability … yeah, good luck with that. Read more »
Google rolled out a slew of new cloud services at I/O, including one called Dataflow that’s meant to put standard MapReduce to shame. It’s advertised a much simpler way to build… Read more »
Big data vendor Cloudera is no Google when it comes to data center footprint, but the cost and complexity of its infrastructure are growing with each passing year. Cloudera VP of… Read more »
Big data has been a buzzword for years, but it’s a lot more than just buzz. There are now so many tools and technologies for creating, collecting and analyzing data that… Read more »
For shops that want to keep using AWS S3 storage service but also want better data consistency, Netflix just open-sourced its S3mper library. Read more »
Cloud developers and engineers have probably heard about Netflix’s (s nflx)Chaos Monkey before, and now the company has turned the tool to its production Cassandra database clusters, as this post explains… Read more »