While we have a tendency to focus on the growth of enterprise cloud computing, the growth of retail, or “personal” clouds, is growing faster than most in the industry expected. Read more »
Big data now touches everything from enterprises and hospitals to smart-meter startups and connected devices in the home. Hadoop, meanwhile, is fast becoming the leading tool to analyze that data, and… Read more »
A recent survey suggests that “mobile computing appears to be a driving force behind cloud adoption in enterprises.” While the cloud clearly plays a role in making mobile devices as valuable… Read more »
Amazon published “disappointing” earnings this week, and the market responded, slashing up to 12 percent off the company’s value. It’s a market that’s preoccupied with fast returns, and so Amazon’s investments in data… Read more »
In a post for Forbes, Everest Group’s Scott Bils last week pointed to four ways in which the cloud is altering the CIO’s job. Auto-provisioning, commoditisation, the shift from CapEx to… Read more »
The outage that affected parts of one Amazon data center was just over a month ago, yet some of the issues that it demonstrated remain captivating to many. Writing for Forbes,… Read more »