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Oracle's Vertical Line to Life Sciences, Healthcare
Post Date: May 03, 2011 @ 8:55 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: Behind the Cloud
Oracle honed its focus on key markets to convince users that cost, security and compliance, are best handled in a specialized cloud environment.
Nicole Hemsoth
Public Cloud Outage Sparks Fresh Debate
Post Date: May 10, 2011 @ 11:33 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: Behind the Cloud
Today's extensive outage at Amazon data centers on the East coast brought AWS some unwanted attention. Major websites and services ground to a halt, sparking a fresh round of questions about relying on clouds for mission or business-critical operations...
Nicole Hemsoth
Changes Afoot in the Walled Gardens
Post Date: April 19, 2011 @ 10:34 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: Behind the Cloud
The roots of innovation have so often been seen in the light of the "walled gardens" metaphor, but to extend that further, new offshoots are tearing at the weathered, eroded blocks...
Nicole Hemsoth
Redmond Sets Sights on Manufacturing
Post Date: April 05, 2011 @ 10:06 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: Behind the Cloud
This could very well be the year that manufacturing and the cloud are coupled in more headlines than ever before. Microsoft has launched a broad initiative to lure in converts from every notch on the supply chain by tackling the sector's perceived need for cloud guidance.
Scott Clark
One Step Closer to Clouds for EDA Industry
Post Date: March 31, 2011 @ 4:17 AM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: Behind the Cloud
This week an announcement from EDA giant Synopsys brought the concept of cloud computing for the industry one step closer to reality.
Nicole Hemsoth
Amazon Opens Door to Dedicated Hardware
Post Date: March 28, 2011 @ 10:55 AM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: Behind the Cloud
Amazon just announced the option of providing dedicated resources to security or regulatory-conscious users. While it might seem on the surface to challenge other HPC on-demand providers, going beyond price comparisons is necessary.
Nicole Hemsoth
Yale-Born Startup Sets Sights on Big Data Analytics
Post Date: March 23, 2011 @ 9:24 AM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: Behind the Cloud
Another company has emerged from the woodwork to help bring the power of Hadoop to a hungry enterprise audience, this one focusing on refining the open source tool itself.
Nicole Hemsoth
Fujitsu Renews HPC Vows with UK Grid Project
Post Date: March 22, 2011 @ 9:07 AM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: Behind the Cloud
Although it has been a staple in the HPC ecosystem for decades, Fujitsu claims it wants to reinvigorate its commitment to high performance computing, beginning with a large distributed grid in the UK.
Nicole Hemsoth
GoGrid and Amazon: Rich Comparisons from an End User Group
Post Date: March 17, 2011 @ 11:58 AM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: Behind the Cloud
While cloud benchmarks are plentiful, sometimes getting the story straight for the end user source brings some added perspective to help make important decisions...
Jose Luis Vazquez-Poletti
When Social Networks Become Social Clouds
Post Date: March 14, 2011 @ 11:43 AM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: Behind the Cloud
During the Japanese disaster, a combination social networks and the principles of cloud computing became the primary source for information gathering and sharing...
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