Eucalyptus Systems, the open source cloud company, has been busy hardening the platform and is days away from delivering its third feature release in the last year.
CEO Marten Mikos says he’s “amazed at the engineering cadence. It’s better than at MySQL.”
He ought to know. He’s the guy who sold MySQL to Sun for a sweet billion dollars.
Out of an abundance of mock humility, he says, the widgetry has been dubbed Eucalyptus 3.2 although it’s not your everyday point release. It represents significant work with key customers that should put further distance between Eucalyptus and its main open source rival, OpenStack, which Marten says is way too big.
CIOs’ Top Priority: Analytics and BI
Providing analytics and BI solutions with the data required has always been difficult, with data integration long considered the biggest bottleneck in any analytics or BI project. Data virtualization significantly accelerates data integration agility.
Complex data landscapes, diverse data types, new sources such as big data and the cloud are but a few of the well-known barriers.
For the past two decades, the default solution has been to first consolidate the data into a data warehouse, and then provide users with tools to analyze and report on this consolidated data.
However, data integration based on these traditional replication and consolidation approaches have numerous moving parts that must be synchronized. Doing this right extends lead times.
CIOs’ Top Priority: Analytics and BI
Providing analytics and BI solutions with the data required has always been difficult, with data integration long considered the biggest bottleneck in any analytics or BI project. Data virtualization significantly accelerates data integration agility.
Complex data landscapes, diverse data types, new sources such as big data and the cloud are but a few of the well-known barriers.
For the past two decades, the default solution has been to first consolidate the data into a data warehouse, and then provide users with tools to analyze and report on this consolidated data.
However, data integration based on these traditional replication and consolidation approaches have numerous moving parts that must be synchronized. Doing this right extends lead times.
AWS Offers Windows Server 2012
In an exercise in vendor neutrality – well, kinda – it’s not exactly altruistic – Amazon Web Services is now offering a bunch of pre-built virtual instances of the Windows Server 2012 operating system, the server version of Windows 8, so Windows users can hew to Microsoft’s upgrade roadmap and still adopt Amazon’s cloud all at the same time.
The addition, which includes SQL Server, was announced this week by Amazon’s Windows team leader Tom Rizzo, a recent refugee from Redmond.
Amazon already supports Windows Server 2003 R2, 2008 and 2008 R2 but Server 2012 can be used with Amazon’s Elastic Beanstalk automatic application provisioning and deployment service as well as EC2.
Bare Metal Blog: FPGAs – The Benefits and Risks
I was talking with the team working on our yard – they’re putting in new sidewalks and a patio, amongst other things – and we got on the subject of gutters. When we bought this house, it came with no gutters, and that has, over time, caused some serious damage to the base of the house. Wood and plaster do not take it well when water pours down on them at the rate that, oh, say melting snow in the spring sends it down. So I had them get us an estimate for gutters on the entire house. Some of the work they’re estimating is running the gutters right to the storm drain, which is not normally cheap, but they had both the front and back yards all ripped up, so it is a good time to do it, both cheaper and less messy, since the mess is already there.
Bare Metal Blog: FPGAs – The Benefits and Risks
I was talking with the team working on our yard – they’re putting in new sidewalks and a patio, amongst other things – and we got on the subject of gutters. When we bought this house, it came with no gutters, and that has, over time, caused some serious damage to the base of the house. Wood and plaster do not take it well when water pours down on them at the rate that, oh, say melting snow in the spring sends it down. So I had them get us an estimate for gutters on the entire house. Some of the work they’re estimating is running the gutters right to the storm drain, which is not normally cheap, but they had both the front and back yards all ripped up, so it is a good time to do it, both cheaper and less messy, since the mess is already there.
Garbage data in, garbage information out: Big data or big garbage?
Do you know the computer technology saying, garbage data in results in garbage information out?
In other words even with the best algorithms and hardware, bad, junk or garbage data put in results in garbage information delivered. Of course, you might have data analysis and cleaning software to look for, find and remove bad or garbage data, however that’s for a different post on another day.
If garbage data in equals garbage information out, does garbage big data in result in big garbage out?
I’m sure my sales and marketing friends or their surrogates will jump at the opportunity to tell me why and how big data is the solution to the decades old garbage data in problem.
Likewise they will probably tell me big data is the solution to problems that have not even occurred or been discovered yet, yeah right.
However garbage data does not discriminate …
Garbage data in, garbage information out: Big data or big garbage?
Do you know the computer technology saying, garbage data in results in garbage information out?
In other words even with the best algorithms and hardware, bad, junk or garbage data put in results in garbage information delivered. Of course, you might have data analysis and cleaning software to look for, find and remove bad or garbage data, however that’s for a different post on another day.
If garbage data in equals garbage information out, does garbage big data in result in big garbage out?
I’m sure my sales and marketing friends or their surrogates will jump at the opportunity to tell me why and how big data is the solution to the decades old garbage data in problem.
Likewise they will probably tell me big data is the solution to problems that have not even occurred or been discovered yet, yeah right.
However garbage data does not discriminate …
Get Past the Confusion Surrounding Hybrid Cloud Computing
In the already overhyped cloud computing market, hybrid cloud computing is emerging as the next big thing. To get past the hype, IT leaders should assess how hybrid cloud computing fits into their road maps, and determine which of its many forms makes sense (and which don’t) for their enterprises.
Cloud SOA – The Revenue Opportunities
The objective of our new Cloud Revenues program is to build a knowledge base of insights and materials to support Solution Selling new Cloud offerings.
Key insights include those from key thought leaders – For example this piece on the Cloud SOA (Service Oriented Architecture) is powerful and timely.
Tom zooms in on the heart of the matter, what the real disruption effect of the Cloud will be, which is that an entirely new vision of IT itself is needed.
Focusing on the SOA as the headline for this he introduces a new iteration of the model to reflect this Cloud wave, what he calls the ‘Distributed SOA’.