VMworld, the flagship annual event hosted by VMware, is bigger and better with each passing year. This year’s event was one of the most anticipated conferences in the industry, withcustomers and… Read more »
For the smart home to ignite the IoT, home automation software platform vendors must provide open APIs. SmartThings and future open-API platforms could be the disruptive players that encourage a tidal… Read more »
The delivery of real-time query makes Hadoop accessible to more users. Its significance goes well beyond delivering a database management system kind of query engine that other products have had for… Read more »
From Facebook to Johns Hopkins University and from Alcatel-Lucent to Procter & Gamble, organizations are coping with the challenge of processing unprecedented volumes of data. Read more »
“Google is a crack dealer” is a phrase Larry Page never wanted to hear: but as the company’s relationships with developers begin to fracture across the board — from the web… Read more »
Paul Sweeting runs down the Windows 8 Consumer Preview, but as an old operating systems industry analyst, I have to take a NewNet look as well. It’s intriguing how the big… Read more »
Microsoft can’t give up on search. Though it’s been losing money forever, Microsoft needs search to defend its core platforms, compete with Google and solidify its ad business while opening emerging… Read more »
The cloud computing stack has been around for a while, with the core three layers of Infrastructure, Platform, and Software/Applications playing a valuable role in helping people explore the different ways… Read more »
In cloud computing, “the stack” typically refers to a simplified three-tier view that divides the cloud’s components into infrastructure, platform or software/applications. While conventional wisdom suggests that vendors constantly try to… Read more »
Both VMware and Red Hat attracted some attention recently as they (separately) launched Platform as a Service (PaaS) offerings. One of the most interesting aspects in each case was the freemium… Read more »