There was some sound sense — some controversy, too — heard from the stage at last week’s annual All About The Cloud conference in San Francisco. I’ll start with Michael Lock, VP Americas at Google Enterprise, whose cloud apps business he hinted is second only in size to Salesforce.com: “We don’t publish figures on this, [...]
Continue reading → The vision of sitting down at a single console and provisioning, configuring, and deploying every component of your datacenter is an appealing one. The amount of time that is spent dealing with these issues across the different technologies in the datacenter is huge, and simplifying these tasks and consolidating them to the point where rolling [...]
Continue reading → Larry Dignan is Editor in Chief of ZDNet and SmartPlanet as well as Editorial Director of ZDNet’s sister site TechRepublic. He was most recently Executive Editor of News and Blogs at ZDNet. Prior to that he was executive news editor at eWeek and news editor at Baseline. He also served as the East Coast news [...]
Continue reading → Oracle President Mark Hurd, speaking to Chinese media in April, promised increased investments in the Chinese market, dismissed IBM’s recently launched expert integrated system, and explained why Oracle’s strategies are difficult for rivals to imitate. In an April 19th interview at the company’s Redwood City, CA headquarters, Hurd said Oracle’s China investments will increase in step with the Chinese economy’s [...]
Continue reading → Since 1998, Phil Wainewright has been a thought leader in cloud computing as a blogger, analyst and consultant. He founded pioneering website ASPnews.com, and later Loosely Coupled, which covered enterprise adoption of web services and SOA. As CEO of strategic consulting group Procullux Ventures, he has developed an evaluation framework to help ISVs and enterprises [...]
Continue reading → With Windows 8, is Microsoft returning to its monopolistic roots? That’s the question that Mozilla and Google seem to be asking this week. It’s taken a few months, but it’s finally dawned on both organizations that they won’t be able to deliver desktop versions of their browsers in Windows RT, the forthcoming version of Windows [...]
Continue reading → On Windows RT, your only real browser choice will be Internet Explorer 10. Mozilla and Google, makers of the Firefox and Chrome Web browsers, don’t have a problem with building new versions of their popular browsers for Windows 8’s Metro interface. Firefox for Metro is on its way and so is Chrome. What they both [...]
Continue reading → As the Enterprise adoption of Hadoop, and technologies related to it, is on the rise, it’s inevitable that companies will offer various combinations and hybrids of relational and/or multidimensional databases with NoSQL data stores, MapReduce processing and various file systems. Teradata Aster (formerly Aster Data) takes the approach of enabling MapReduce processing over a relational database. MapR enables [...]
Continue reading → Larry Dignan is Editor in Chief of ZDNet and SmartPlanet as well as Editorial Director of ZDNet’s sister site TechRepublic. He was most recently Executive Editor of News and Blogs at ZDNet. Prior to that he was executive news editor at eWeek and news editor at Baseline. He also served as the East Coast news [...]
Continue reading → Larry Dignan is Editor in Chief of ZDNet and SmartPlanet as well as Editorial Director of ZDNet’s sister site TechRepublic. He was most recently Executive Editor of News and Blogs at ZDNet. Prior to that he was executive news editor at eWeek and news editor at Baseline. He also served as the East Coast news [...]
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