Our resident cloud consultant provides some helpful hints as to how you can be successful with private clouds So you're thinking of building a private cloud. It seems like the right thing to do, considering that every one of your enterprise software and hardware providers has spun themselves into the space. However, the path to a truly well-designed private cloud is often misunderstood. There's a lot of mis ...

Cloud.com conducted this survey in the second quarter of 2011 to determine cloud computing usage trends among IT professionals who participate in the BitNami, Cloud.com and Zenoss open source software and user communities. The results are collated from responses of 521 individuals as to their usage and preferences for virtualization and cloud computing technologies. Highlights: • Most IT professionals prefe ...

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 ...

Earlier this week, Heroku, the PaaS player Salesforce acquired during last year’s Dreamforce, announced a major new release Celadon Cedar adding some powerful features targeting enterprise customers. They also announced full Node.js support and added Ruby 1.9.2 support. Some of the features include: New process model with support for background processes Procfiles for having a fine grained control over the ...

TagVault.org is the registration authority for software identification tags (SWID tags). It is a non-profit organization formed under the structure of IEEE-ISTO. As it champions the cause of standardized SWID tags, they are often asked – why do we need Software Identification Tags when all IT operations are going to be moving to the cloud? There are three answers to this question – each one focusing on a di ...

Hot Platform-as-a-Service startup DotCloud is acquiring fellow PaaS startup Duostack in an attempt to gird itself for a fight that’s likely to leave some casualties in the years to come. With PaaS startups proliferating and large vendors such as VMware, Red Hat, Microsoft and Salesforce.com already in the game, DotCloud and Duostack are making a smart move to ensure their mutual survival while combining the ...

Karmasphere Integrates Its Big Data Analytics Suite With IBM InfoSphere BigInsights Software Karmasphere™, a Big Data Analytics company, today announced it is joining with IBM (NYSE:IBM) to help enterprise clients integrate and analyze traditional business data with a growing volume of unstructured data using Apache Hadoop-based software. Karmasphere has integrated its Big Data Analytics software including ...

The Cloud means different things to different people. Everyone has their own views of the Cloud and myriad usage patterns have evolved, even while new and innovative options are emerging everyday. The standard definition of Cloud computing, as quoted in Wikipedia: So in essence, the Cloud is an environment where all aspects of computing are availed of as a service and consumers, be they individuals or busin ...

The biggest growth in cloud computing will be in hybrid clouds (from 13% now to 43% in three years) according to a recent study by SandHill Group in which they surveyed more than 500 IT executives. Another survey by Evans Data finds an even higher adoption rate among IT developers, suggesting that the hybrid cloud model is set to dominate the coming IT landscape. Given the interest and practicality of hybri ...