Insights & Updates
PaaS Hasn't Hit the Big Time Yet
Last week we asked you, prompted by RedMonk analyst Michael Coté's question, whether you were were adopting or wanted to adopt a platform-as-a-service. The majority of you are either already using one or more or are planning to start. But according t...
Read Article →MacBook Air Contest: Protecting Data as it Moves Between Private and Public Clouds?
What are key considerations for protecting data as it moves between private and public clouds? That's the question this month for our MacBook Air contest. Best comment on this post wins. You'll need a Disqus account to participate. The question rais...
Read Article →Microsoft Says It Will Give Your Data to the U.S. Government, Even If It's Not in the U.S.
Microsoft has admitted that it will hand over data to the U.S. government, if properly requested, even if that data is stored somewhere other than the U.S. The issue, according to ZDNet's Zack Whittaker, is that because Microsoft is a U.S. company it ...
Read Article →Cloud Poll: Should Cloud Providers Also Be Internet Providers?
When I got my first smartphone, the original black and white Danger Sidekick, the data plan cost me something like $40 a month for unlimited data plus something like 200 anytime minutes. These days an unlimited data plan will cost you more like $30 a m...
Read Article →Free Data Transfers for AWS Starts Friday
Amazon announced that effective this Friday, they will no longer charge for data transfers into your cloud environments at Amazon's Web Services. (It was ten cents per GB.) Previously and still effective, the first gigabyte of data transferred out are ...
Read Article →Oracle Going Acquisition Bazonkers, Buys Pillar Data
Just last Tuesday Oracle acquired CMS company FatWire and data quality software vendor Datanomic. Today Oracle bought Pillar Data, a SAN storage company majority owned by Oracle CEO Larry Ellison. Sponsor In addition to being owned by Oracle's CEO, Pil...
Read Article →The Limits of Big Data
Greg Borenstein takes on what he sees as the dominant view among the elite geeks at FooCamp in a recent blog post. According to Borenstein, the theme embraced at FooCamp was "big data will save us." Borenstein raises some excellent points about how we...
Read Article →Is the Cloud Truly Greener?
A talk by Tom Raftery of GreenMonk at a conference earlier this month in Dublin, Ireland poses our title question. And the answer isn't as clear-cut, or as green, as you may think. The problem is doing the math and figuring out exactly what you are r...
Read Article →WatchDox Creates Pricey New Private Cloud for Secure Document Sharing
WatchDox is extending its services to the private cloud. We've written about them in the past. They have an iPad app for document control and tracking, and have added Android and soon Blackberry versions as well. Sponsor The idea is whenever you share ...
Read Article →Case Study: How Welch's Uses Virtualization to Keep the Juice Flowing
When Welch's came close to outgrowing its data center, the fruit juice company's IT department turned to virtualization to keep things running smoothly without having to migrate everything to a new facility. In this case study, learn how Welch's uses ...
Read Article →Cloud Poll: Does the FBI Raid on DigitalOne Change Your Mind About the Cloud?
The Amazon Web Services cloud outage lead to some contemplation from cloud computing leaders such as Krishnan Subramanian. I'm wondering if the FBI raid on co-location host DigitalOne will lead to some similar considerations. Colos aren't cloud in mos...
Read Article →Dell Acquires Cloud Memory Startup RNA Networks
I almost missed this, and it happened in my own backyard: Portland-based virtualization startup RNA Networks announced that it has been acquired by Dell. It was a quiet announcement, marked only by the RNA Networks website posting an announcement readi...
Read Article →AT&T Announces New CDN Service
AT&T today announced a new, cloud-based Content Delivery Network (CDN) platform. Through its Digital Media Solutions division, AT&T will enable content to flow directly from its 38 data centers around the world, to reduce transit and latency times. The...
Read Article →Benioff Says the Cloud is Passe
Last week at Salesforce's Boston Cloudforce event, CEO Marc Benioff is moving on beyond the cloud and called it passé. Really? Sponsor Yes, social and mobile networking has more buzz, and more business practice and applications these days. But hasn't ...
Read Article →Amazon EC2 now runs Red Hat Linux
Amazon has added Red Hat Linux to its collection of virtual machine images now available in its EC2 cloud computing service. Sponsor EC2 has many different operating systems available, including Windows Server and several different Linux versions in...
Read Article →Black Hat, CCS & Co.
Update: CCS will be released at Black Hat EU 2011! Black Hat DC 2011 was great – a lot of interesting people, interesting talks and nice parties. Unfortunately I wasn’t able to demonstrate and release the cloud cracking suite as … <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://stacksmashing.net/2011/02/04/black-hat-ccs-co/">Continue reading <span>→</span></a>
Read Article →Upcoming Black Hat Talk
Because of the huge media coverage about my upcoming talk “Breaking encryption in the cloud: GPU accelerated supercomputing for everyone” at Black Hat DC I want to make sure that no one is getting a wrong impression on what I’m … <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://stacksmashing.net/2011/01/12/upcoming-black-hat-talk/">Continue reading <span>→</span></a>
Read Article →Run Haskell on Xen - No Operating System Required!
Galois has released the Haskell Lightweight Virtual Machine today. The VM, released under a BSD license, allows users to run Haskell programs in Xen "on bare metal." Users will boot right into the Haskell application. Sponsor From the company's announc...
Read Article →3 Infographics About Cloud Computing
There are any number of ways to look at cloud computing. Three infographics illustrate how differentt the subject is viewed. The works demonstrate the diversity of the communities interested in cloud computing. All three appeal to people with little or...
Read Article →10 Tips for Attending Dreamforce or Any Other Conference
Dreamforce is the annual Salesforce.com event taking place next week at the Moscone Center in San Francisco. It's one of those giant events with more tracks than you could ever attend. There will be more vendors than you could ever learn about in two d...
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