ResearchUnderstanding the power of Hadoop as a Service
Hadoop as a Service could make it much easier for you to build a big data capability inside your organization and run it at scale. Read more »
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Amazon Web Services (AWS) is a collection of remote computing services (also called web services) that together make up a cloud computing platform, offered over the Internet by Amazon.com. The most central and well-known of these services are Amazon EC2 and Amazon S3. The service is advertised as providing a large computing capacity (potentially many servers) much faster and cheaper than building a physical server farm.
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Before you choose a cloud provider, evaluate factors like geography, certification, service level agreements, price and performance. Read more »
On this week’s podcast we talk infrastructure — and what next-gen startups will need to fuel their grand plans. All of which is on the agenda for Structure 2014 next week. Read more »
Two new IBM SoftLayer cloud data centers, one in Dallas, one in Ashburn, Virg., will be added to IBM’s roster later this year. Read more »
Hewlett-Packard will rely on a network of service provider and data center partners to give the HP Helion Network scale to compete with massive cloud powers. Read more »
IBM has been all over the media the past few weeks–both pitching its story and fielding brickbats and accolades for its prospects and position in the market. The company has been… Read more »
The week in cloud: Feds tell insurers it’s okay to use Amazon Web Services for their Obamacare workloads; and it’s time to gear up for Structure! Read more »
Amazon Web Services, Gnip and two Australian research institutions have teamed up to track the emotions of tweets in near real-time and offer the data to the public via visualizations, downloadable… Read more »
Google adds to its cloud repertoire with new persistent high IOPS solid state disk storage. The performance is nice, but customers may find the price model even more interesting. Read more »
The machinations in cloud have reached a fever pitch with public cloud giant Amazon pushing into the enterprise and enterprise IT giants attacking public cloud. Should make for some good conversation… Read more »