The past several years have presented an interesting time for CIOs, their staff and the companies they work within. In many ways, the changes are significant shifts how companies have operated… Read more »
Google has published a paper about its latest big data system, a globally distributed data warehouse called Mesa that can ingest millions of rows in minutes and even survive a data… Read more »
MaidSafe’s project is absurdly ambitious — a serverless network system that offers free storage, repels surveillance and effectively constitutes a distributed supercomputer. But maybe, just maybe, it might work. Read more »
In practice, many organizations find that they are unable to leverage the benefits the cloud can bring because they are hampered by existing infrastructure and operational constraints. Read more »
Netflix CEO Reed Hastings suggested tongue-in-cheek this week that the company could switch to P2P video streaming to avoid peering troubles with ISPs. Would that actually be possible? Read more »
While some claim that one server OS should solve all of an enterprise’s competing needs, a look inside any data center shows us that reality is very different. Nearly all businesses… Read more »