There has been a rumor floating around since August (first, and subsequently, reported by Mary Jo Foley at ZDNet) that Microsoft is preparing to release its Cosmos big data system as… Read more »
Sebastian Stadil has been managing cloud environments for years as the creator of the Scalr project and founder of the startup he built to commercialize it. It’s his business to know how… 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 »
Cloudera has announced a new product called Director that will make it easier for customers to manage their Hadoop clusters on the Amazon Web Services cloud. It’s likely the first of… Read more »
Mortar, a startup helping developers launch Hadoop jobs in the Amazon cloud, is offering a managed version of the open source Luigi tool for managing big data pipelines. Created at Spotify,… Read more »
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 »
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 »
Microsoft Azure now supports the management of Docker clusters using the Google-developed Kubernetes framework. What’s more, Microsoft has also open sourced a visual tool for managing those clusters via a graphical… Read more »