The cloud computing world has been anxious to hear former NASA CTO Chris Kemp’s plans since he left his post in the spring to pursue a startup venture, and on Wednesday morning, he introduced his new company, Nebula. It’s selling an OpenStack-based appliance for managing scale-out cloud deployments, and is backed by premier talent and investors. Nebula isn’t disclosing how much it has raised, but Co-Founder ...

Another study out this week has found that if companies adopt cloud computing, they can reduce the energy consumption of their IT and save money on energy bills. The report, created by research firm Verdantix and sponsored by AT&T, estimates that cloud computing could enable companies to save $12.3 billion off their energy bills. That translates into carbon emission savings of 85.7 million metric tons per y ...

In the past year, big data has emerged as one of the most closely watched trends in IT. Organizations today are generating more data in a single day than that the entire Internet was generated as recently as 2000. The explosion of “big data”–much of it in complex and unstructured formats–has presented companies with a tremendous opportunity to leverage their data for better business insights through analyti ...

The ability to analyze enormous amounts of data and use that to better target an ad, make a new drug or any number of other lofty goals is talked about constantly, but what about harnessing Hadoop for the rest of us? Something as simple as figuring out when the best time to schedule a meeting and get everyone to attend or let a regional manager select what inventory to order can have huge boosts for busines ...

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 ...

LexisNexis is releasing a set of open source data-processing tools that it says outperforms Hadoop and even handles workloads that Hadoop presently cannot. The technology (and new business line) is called HPCC Systems, and was created 10 years ago within the LexisNexis Risk Solutions division that analyzes huge amounts of data for its customers in intelligence, financial services and other high-profile indu ...

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 ...

WAN-optimization startup Infineta has raised $15 million in a Series B funding round for its product that speeds traffic flows between data centers and optimizes bandwidth utilization. The latest investment comes from Rembrandt Venture Partners, Alloy Ventures and North Bridge Venture Partners, and the company has now raised $30 million in two rounds. Unlike many WAN-optimization products that speed traffic ...

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 ...

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 ...