BigDataCloud would be live blogging the GigaOM Structure 2011 event. Dj Das would be onsite & live – blogging with his own perspective of the action on the ground! This event is now sold out and you can watch the live video stream here About Structure 2011 Making Sense of the Real Cloud After years of questions about what cloud computing is and how it will affect IT, we’re finally starting to get answers. W ...

This year at Structure 2011, we will be looking at the next wave of cloud technology and services. Anyone with a vested interest in cloud computing wouldn't want to miss this chance to hear about its future from the people who are making it happen. The speaker lineup will feature top executives from leading companies building the next-generation of the cloud. BigDataCloud community members can register now ...

This year at Structure 2011, we will be looking at the next wave of cloud technology and services. Anyone with a vested interest in cloud computing wouldn’t want to miss this chance to hear about its future from the people who are making it happen. The speaker lineup will feature top executives from leading companies building the next-generation of the cloud. BigDataCloud community members can register now ...

Since the concept of “private cloud” was introduced, there have been efforts by certain people to prove it “wrong” or show that it doesn’t make sense when compared with the public cloud. This seems like a silly crusade, not because I’m a supporter of private cloud (which I am), but because both provide tremendous value if you actually understand the value that “cloud” has delivered to the industry. “But Sin ...

IBM recently released the results of their CIO study survey which predicts a boom in the enterprise cloud adoption. As I usually do with any vendor sponsored survey, I take it with a grain of salt. However, this is a trend most of us observe in the industry and I won’t be surprised if this turned out to be accurate. Irrespective of the numbers in the survey results, one thing is clear. Enterprises are embra ...

Innovation around the management of large data sets is coming from the cloud, such as through MapReduce and Hadoop InfoWorld's own Pete Babb provided some good coverage around the "analytics cloud" recently debuted by IBM, called Blue Insight. You can think of Blue Insight as a system that gathers data from those who use it and externalizes the data to those who need it, doing so on a cloud -- a private clo ...

Discover how MapReduce and cloud computing are ideal for dealing with lots of data At times, you need to be able to access more physical and virtual resources to achieve complex compute-intensive results, but setting up a grid system within an organization can face resource, logistical, and technical hurdles; even some political ones. Cloud computing comes to the rescue in this case. It also combines perfec ...

Last week VMworld happened and some of the Clouderati were busy hanging out in the halls of Moscone Center at San Francisco. I was planning to attend the event but had to cancel due to personal reasons. But a steady stream of tweets and blog posts kept me updated about everything from the keynotes to the happenings at various booths on the Expo floor. Based on these third party reports, my takeaway from the ...

While when it comes to cloud computing, no one has entirely sorted out what’s hype and what isn’t, nor exactly how it will be used by the enterprise, what is becoming increasingly clear is that Big Data is the future of IT. To that end, tackling Big Data will determine the winners and losers in the next wave of cloud computing innovation. Data is everywhere (be it from users, applications or machines) and a ...