As the competition among cloud computing providers steps up, so is interest in the internet of things. More connected devices — perhaps especially by governments rolling thousands at a time –… Read more »
Microsoft is talking a lot about the scale of its cloud computing platform lately, but scale alone won’t help it steal revenue from Amazon Web Services or Google. Microsoft’s advantage is… 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 »
Amazon Web Services’ popular DynamoDB service now supports JSON documents, a capability that makes it more competitive against alternatives from Microsoft, Google and MongoDB. AWS also increased storage and throughput limits… 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 »
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 »
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 »
Foundry Group Managing Partner and TechStars Co-founder Brad Feld came on the Structure Show this week to talk about why Amazon Web Services might be feeling the pinch from competitors, and… Read more »
Microsoft and Amazon Web Services both announced research grant programs on Tuesday, promising millions of hours of cloud computing resources to winning researchers, as well as access to mountains of government… Read more »