The adoption of Kubernetes-enabled infrastructures and applications has revealed the challenge involved in enabling persistent, reliable data storage in an ephemeral compute…
Read MoreWe are in the midst of a data mining renaissance. Traditionally, data warehousing implementations were large, complex and expensive, meaning only the…
Read MoreYou know the saying, “If you build it, they will come”? Well that certainly holds true for GPS functionality and mobile phones.…
Read MoreHadoop, Cassandra, HBase, Hypertable, Open Neptune... these are some open source projects that are being pursued by web technologists in order to deal with explosion of digital data in a post-terabyte world. The traditional way to deal with unstructured data isn't working. What we need is a structured means of finding, accessing, and retrieving files and objects.…
Read MoreCloudera, a Burlingame, Calif-based company offering services around the open source software framework Hadoop, has raised $5 million in Series A funding…
Read MoreIt’s a good thing we’re on friendly terms with New Zealand, because one of the residents of that green, hilly island recently…
Read MoreToday IBM (s IBM) announced that six universities are using its cloud computing expertise to set up and manage clouds located in…
Read MoreAs a mobile device, the iPhone crosses several different user groups. From business users to media junkies, a wide range of people…
Read MoreAMD isn’t going after the mobile Internet device market that Intel and other chip vendors are eying. AMD’s senior VP and chief…
Read MoreThe National Association of Venture Capitals released a demographic study today that was pretty anticlimactic. They discovered that venture capitalists in charge…
Read MoreLast week, OStatic noted the rumor, first reported by VentureBeat, that Microsoft intended to buy Silicon Valley semantic search engine Powerset for…
Read MoreParascale, a Cupertino, Calif-based start-up that has developed a storage file system for a cloud of computers announced that it had attracted…
Read MoreWe are only ten days away from Structure’08, our web infrastructure conference. As part of our preparation for this event, our team…
Read MoreEucalyptus, an open-source infrastructure for cloud computing on clusters that duplicates the functionality of Amazon’s EC2, directly using the Amazon command-line tools,…
Read MoreAs part of our renewed focus on technologies that matter, we are launching a series of events called GigaOM PM, occasional meetups…
Read MoreEditor’s Note: our readers are familiar now with contributor Ben Yoskovitz’s work. (His company, Standout Jobs was just named one of Canada’s…
Read MoreWhile working a full time job, I have devoted my nights and weekends to developing a community-powered marketplace, which I feel will…
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