Cloud computing seems to be all the rage these days. It’s not just a passing fad of course, it’s actually a very real business and a state of the art. The problem is that cloud computing means many things to many people, whether it’s public cloud, private cloud, software, infrastructure or platform as a service, etc.
Where is Dell heading in the big data, business intelligence and analytics software markets? The answer involves Apache Hadoop and Pentaho — an open source software company that seems to be gaining more business momentum. Here’s the update.
First, a little background on each of the players:
Dell has an Emerging Solutions Ecosystem that drives new innovations out to customers.
Big Data often requires “Big Hardware.” In other words, to process and analyze large stores of information, organizations usually need a lot of computing power, which brings with it its own set of demands and maintenance costs.
Riverbed Technology, the company known for its Steelhead appliances, has made good on its alliance with Akamai Technologies, bringing both companies’ optimization technologies together for one big happy cloud-based optimization party. Wondering how this could benefit your data center?
Clouds, clouds, everywhere there are clouds. Here’s one more to file in your cloud list from Infochimps that’s all about big data.
Infochimps Enterprise Cloud is the kind of service you won’t see any time soon from an enterprise behemoth like Oracle or most of the enterprise big boys. Why? Because it’s self service.
If virtualization is so vital to cloud computing, shouldn’t cloud backup and recovery also take advantage of virtualization technology? Zerto, which develops business continuity products tailored for the cloud, thinks so, as it has shown with the release of its latest hypervisor-based backup platform. How does it compare to other solutions in the rapidly growing market for cloud backup?
As clouds continue to grow, so does the need for cloud ready backup solutions. In a reflection of the potential importance of this rapidly evolving offshoot of the cloud computing revolution, data protection vendors Asigra and RestorePoint have announced a partnership to deliver disaster recovery solutions for real estate businesses.
A newly rechristened Cloud.com on Tuesday unveiled its CloudStack Platform, an integrated software solution that lets enterprises and service providers quickly and easily build, manage and deploy Infrastructure as a Service cloud computing solutions.
A newly rechristened Cloud.com on Tuesday unveiled its CloudStack Platform, an integrated software solution that lets enterprises and service providers quickly and easily build, manage and deploy Infrastructure as a Service cloud computing solutions.
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