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- IBM announces Blue Cloud, its Cloud Computing initiative
- IBM into Cloud ComputingSo, will several such initiatives add to a milieu?
- Tags: pr.arun@..., IBM Corp.
- Discussion threads 2007-11-15
- Amazon expands Cloud Computing to augment Web 2.0 ventures
- Amazon Web Services opened up its utility computing service, the Elastic Computer Cloud (EC2) beta, to all developers, adding large and extra large instance types to provide more flexibility to EC2 users. A quote from Internetnews.com: "[The] 'elastic' nature of Amazon EC2 allows any developer...
- Tags: Web, Web 2.0, Amazon.com Inc., Computing, Arun Radhakrishnan
- Blog posts 2007-10-21
- Putting the desktop in the clouds
- Will Cloud computing make the OS immaterial?Will Cloud computing make the OS immaterial?
- Tags: pr.arun@..., desktop
- Discussion threads 2007-09-27
- Putting the desktop in the clouds
- Cloud computing is the catching on. From contact lists to online storage, the end of the spectrum marks the arrival of the Web as the next platform with desktops being independent of an underlying platform. A quote from the article at Technology Review:...
- Tags: Computing, Desktops, Hardware, Arun Radhakrishnan
- Blog posts 2007-09-27
- IBM announces Blue Cloud, its Cloud Computing initiative
- IBM announced its Blue Cloud initiative to run large-scale applications spanning massive databases over the Web. An excerpt from News.com: As more Web 2.0-style applications, which include lots of content contributed by end users, come online, companies will need to have better tools to handle them,...
- Tags: IBM Corp., Virtualization, Network Technology, Utility Computing, Productivity, It Management, Storage Management, Hardware, Networking, It service Management, Storage, Arun Radhakrishnan
- Blog posts 2007-11-15
- Amazon's database in the cloud service
- Amazon will unveil its database in the cloud service SimpleDB that lets customers manipulate and query data. An excerpt from News.com: "Amazon SimpleDB provides quick, efficient storage and retrieval of your data to support high performance Web applications," the company said on its SimpleDB Web site....
- Tags: Amazon.com Inc., Storage, Databases, Hardware, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Arun Radhakrishnan
- Blog posts 2007-12-16
- Google and IBM team up to take parallel computing to the colleges
- Google and IBM have teamed together in an initiative to advance large-scale distributed computing. How do they plan to do this? By making resources available to researchers and students. A quote from the article at InformationWeek: "Google is excited to partner with IBM to provide...
- Tags: Google Inc., Team, Computing, IBM Corp., Cluster, Team Management, Management, Arun Radhakrishnan
- Blog posts 2007-10-09
- Google's App Engine lets you run your apps in the Google cloud
- This is a guest post from Larry Dignan. You can read the original article on Larry's blog Between the Lines on TechRepublic's sister site ZDNet. Google on Tuesday launched its App Engine, which allows developers to run their Web applications on the search giant's computing cloud. ...
- Tags: Google Inc., Google App Engine, Blogging, Search, Internet, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-04-09
- Big tech players look to the future through R&D
- IBM is about to open a new facility in Dublin, Ireland, to support its "cloud computing" initiative in Europe. The initiative, IBM's attempt to attract customers to its model of using computing power as a service, is the end result of years of research by Big Blue. IBM has made...
- Tags: R&D, IBM Corp., Research & Development, Business Operations, Andy Moon
- Blog posts 2008-03-19
- Amazon's S3 storage service suffers downtime
- Hot on the heels of the latest outage over at RIM's North America NOC came news of Amazon's S3 cloud computing service experiencing some hiccups for several hours on Friday morning, February 15. The issue was apparently resolved by around noon EST on the same day. A...
- Tags: S3 Inc., Storage, Downtime, Amazon.com Inc., Paul Mah
- Blog posts 2008-02-18
- Amazon's SimpleDB makes it easier to work with data
- When you develop Web-based services, it can be difficult to achieve the goal of simplification. Working with the plethora of Web services offered by companies such as Google and Amazon provide plenty of examples, but these examples utilize complicated code to use the valuable services. This is why I was...
- Tags: Combination, Data, Domain, Amazon.com Inc., RDBMS, Service, Wikipedia, SimpleDB, SimpleDB Service, Databases, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Tony Patton
- Blog posts 2008-01-28
- Sanity check: Seven hot acronyms IT pros are talking about
- IT professionals adore acronyms and shorthand. That's one of the reasons why normal people think IT pros are speaking a foreign language when we talk amongst ourselves. If you want to keep up with trends in IT management for 2008, familiarize yourself with this list of hot acronyms that your...
- Tags: Business Intelligence, Information Technology, CMDB, BPM Business Process Management, BI Business Intelligence, TCO Total Cost Of Ownership, SOA Service-Oriented Architecture, ITIL Information Technology Infrastructure Library, ITIL, Strategy, Roi/Tco, It Services, Management, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Jason Hiner
- Blog posts 2008-02-03
- News to know for Monday, April 14, 2008
- "News to know" is a joint venture between TechRepublic and ZDNet. The original post publishes every morning on business days in Between the Lines. Notable headlines: Tricia Liebert: The impact of the hive mind- all of us are smarter than one of us ...
- Tags: Google Inc., Data Center, PaaS, Garett Rogers, Data Centers, Microsoft Windows, Linux, Storage, Operating Systems, Hardware, Data Management, Software, Sonja Thompson
- Blog posts 2008-04-14
- Sanity check: Will the Google revolution engulf IT departments?
- Gartner has embarked on a wide-reaching new study of Google and its potential impact on IT, enterprise businesses, and society in general in the coming years. On April 10 at the Gartner Symposium ITxpo 2008 in Las Vegas, Gartner Vice President Richard Hunter revealed some of the first data points...
- Tags: Google Inc., Information Technology, Strategy, Data Centers, Management, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Jason Hiner
- Blog posts 2008-04-14
- News to know for Tuesday, April 8, 2008
- "News to know" is a joint venture between TechRepublic and ZDNet. The original post publishes every morning on business days in Between the Lines. Notable headlines: Toni Bowers: March marks third consecutive month of job losses Bill Detwiler: Virtual worlds invade the average business meeting...
- Tags: TechCrunch, Jason O'Grady, Microsoft Corp., Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Microsoft Windows, Printers, Fuel Cells, Notebooks, Web Services, Operating Systems, Open Source, Enterprise Software, Software, Hardware, Peripherals, Emerging Technologies, Notebooks & Tablets, Jason Hiner
- Blog posts 2008-04-08
- Surprise! IBM brings SOA to the real world with new tools
- IBM's current television ad campaign spouts the mantra "Stop Talking. Start Doing." While I usually dismiss this kind of stuff because it comes from high-powered marketing wonks and is usually divorced from actual product strategy, I have found one example where IBM is putting its money where its mouth is....
- Tags: SOA, Tool, IBM Corp., Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Jason Hiner
- Blog posts 2008-04-11
- Sanity check: 10 trends that will transform IT over the next five years
- Gartner pours out a lot of opinions and predictions. While I regularly disagree with many of those opinions, I believe that Gartner is one of the best analyst firms in the business at organizing and clearly articulating its views. A recent example of that is Gartner's list of its top...
- Tags: Software, Sourcing, Home Depot Inc., Apple Macintosh, Open Source, Information Technology, Vendor, Gartner Inc., Supplier, Apple Inc., Enterprise Data Center, Strategy, Management, Jason Hiner
- Blog posts 2008-02-18
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