Industry News All Around The World

Industry News All Around the World

Source	News, blogs and posts that are interesting or relevant for IT professionals engineering the very core software systems for the computer industry
	Cloud WAR! Open season on Amazon for cloudy rivals From tire-kicking to tire-buying By Matt Asay, Posted 13th April 2012
	IBM ramps up to catch up with undisclosed Netezza demand Running out of boxes was 'great' By Gavin Clarke, Posted on 5th April 2012
	IBM's DB2 database update does time travel, gets graphic 'Continuous data ingest' gorges on bits, compression crunches 'em By Timothy Prickett Morgan, Posted on 3rd April 2012
	Red Hat: Amazon love 'yes', its own cloud 'no' 'We don't use Oracle as a model' By Gavin Clarke, Posted on 2nd April 2012
	The Secret History of OpenStack, the Free Cloud Software That’s Changing Everything By Cade Metz, Posted on 2nd Apri, 2012
	Violin Memory flashes $50m wad from SAP HANA in-memory database prospect By Chris Mellor, Posted on 2nd April 2012
	Deploying Enterprise Private PaaS: Five Guidelines It’s essential to consider issues like infrastructure independence and level of resource utilization. By Abraham Sultan, Posted on 29th March, 2012
	Microsoft says scale-out storage not needed for big data SQL Server guru also thinks data scientists also have limited role … for now By Simon Sharwood, Posted on 29th March 2012
	Red Hat accelerates through $1bn in sales Shadowman fills pockets By Timothy Prickett Morgan, Posted on 28th March 2012
	The 42 Rules of Product Marketing: Be The Expert in How Customers Use Your Product By Dave Kellog, Posted on March 27, 2012
	Amazon, Eucalyptus team on cloud compatibility Not exactly 'private EC2', but close By Timothy Prickett Morgan, Posted on 22nd March 2012
	DataStax adds search to Cassandra NoSQL Solr powered distributed database By Timothy Prickett Morgan, Posted on 22nd March 2012
	Merciless Cloud will slay storage arrays - Nasuni chief Cloud storage gateway firm talks up, er, cloud storage By Chris Mellor, Posted on 19th March 2012
	ClearStory uncloaks with big data visualization vision Teaching elephants to draw pictures for CEOs By Timothy Prickett Morgan, Posted 19th March 2012
	HP loses Vertica big data boss Lynch is gone, but at least Lynch is still there By Chris Mellor, Posted on 19th March 2012
	Apple, Google, Amazon and the Rise of Extreme Prices When the big players offer super low prices, who wins and who loses? By Mike Elgan, Posted on March 14, 2012
	Dell working on cloudy analytics apps Survey says SMBs want one SaaS throat to choke By Timothy Prickett Morgan, posted 12th March 2012
	Why Windows 8 server is a game-changer More than just a few tweaks... By Trevor Pott, Posted on 14th March 2012
	As Enterprise Adoption Skyrockets, IBM Paves the Way to SmartClouds Businesses are overwhelmingly adopting the cloud model, according to an IBM study. Yet it’s not without its stumbling blocks. By Pedro Hernandez, Posted on March 9, 2012
	The Future of the Company By Dave Kellog, Posted on March 8, 2012
	Why Only Designers Can Create New Programming Languages Attempts to verify the utility of languages stifle innovation By Christopher Mims, Posted on 6th March 2012
	Amazon, Google Cut Cloud Prices, but Is It Enough? By Mike Barton, Posted on March 6, 2012
	Big Data is Creating The Future - It's A $50 Billion Market By John Furrier, Posted on 29th February, 2012
	Dimension Data takes on all cloud comers Public, private, any way you want it By Timothy Prickett Morgan, Posted on 23rd February 2012
	Oracle extends Linux support to 10 years Dangles Ksplice lure for Red Hat customers By Iain Thomson Posted on 23rd February 2012
	Node.js Native breakthrough: cloudy C++ on steroids Cancer or performance buster? By Gavin Clarke, Posted on 17th February 2012
	NoSQL databases not just for the 'cool kids' Relational DBMSes 'too rigid' By Timothy Prickett Morgan, Posted on 13th February 2012
	Clusterpoint secures €1m from BaltCap to scale its database for clouds By Mike Butcher, Posted on February 9, 2012
	Inside the mind of EMC: Is storage just a launchpad? I wanna be a data centre contender ... By Chris Mellor, Posted on 7th February 2012
	Hadoop in 2012: Widespread Enterprise Adoption and Inevitable Project Failure Experts predict that many more enterprises will launch Hadoop-related Big Data projects in 2012 -- but they also predict that many of those projects will fail. By Cynthia Harvey, Posted on January 25, 2012
	Data Storage: The Myth of Redundancy Redundancy in a data storage system does not by itself guarantee reliability. Are two straw houses safer than one brick house? By Scott Alan Miller, Posted on January 23, 2012
	Thoughts on the Splunk IPO and S-1 By Dave Kellog, Posted on January 20, 2012
	Amazon Goes Back to the Future With ‘NoSQL’ Database By Caleb Garling, Posted on January 19, 2012
	How Google Spawned The 384-Chip Server By Cade Metz, Posted on January 19, 2012
	The secret to getting rich in 2012: Open APIs Developers need to know the right lingo By Matt Asay, Posted on 30th December 2011
	Ask Slashdot: Open Vs. Closed-Source For a Start-Up By Slashdot, Posted on December 11
	What Moore’s Law Means for the Future of the Cloud By Jon Stokes, Posted on December 10
	IT Minds Quest for ‘Holy Grail’ of Data-Center Metrics By Eric Smalley, Posted on December 9, 2011
	Why we need even more programming languages Upgrading existing, popular languages to support new features is a lot harder than you might think By Neil McAllister, Posted on December 08, 2011
	NoSQL hopeful cozies up to Hadoop data-muncher Big data love-in By Gavin Clarke, Posted on 2nd December 2011
	Java tops for hackers, warns Microsoft Apply patches to known holes By Gavin Clarke, Posted on 2nd December 2011
	Apache: Old, out of touch, but worth it... GitHub who? By Matt Asay, Posted On 2nd December 2011
	Hub and spoke gives data analytics a new spin More tools in the warehouse By Timothy Prickett Morgan, Posted on 28th November 2011
	Ubuntu tells dumped CouchDB: It's not you, it's me Cloud storage dalliance is over By Gavin Clarke, Posted on 25th November 2011
	Amazon cloud rival adds object storage service Joyent: Expect petabytes and petabytes of storage By Chris Mellor, Posted 25th November 2011
	What Microsoft, Oracle, IBM, And SAP Don't Tell Customers By Matt Rosoff Posted November 19, 2011
	Man Survives Steve Ballmer’s Flying Chair To Build ’21st Century Linux’ By Cade Metz, Posted November 18, 2011
	Tech sugar daddies shovel millions into Hadoop war Who will flash the most cloud cash? By Matt Asay Posted on 11th November 2011
	Hadoop: Making Linux gobble big data Growing penguins need petabytes to feast on By Timothy Prickett Morgan Posted on 9th November 2011
	Data retention, FOI and the storage budget By Lucy Sherriff Posted on 9th November 2011
	Why aren't you using FreeBSD? FreeBSD is a free, fast, stable, feature-rich operating system. If you've never looked into it before, you should By Paul Venezia, Posted November 07, 2011
	Conquering Information Overload By Sharon Ann Holgate Posted November 04, 2011
	A File is Not a File: Understanding the I/O Behavior of Apple Desktop Applications (PDF) By Tyler Harter, Chris Dragga, Michael Vaughn, Andrea C. Arpaci-Dusseau, Remzi H. Arpaci-Dusseau Special Interest Group on Operating Systems Posted October 23-26, 2011
	The Quest for the Holy Grail of Storage … RAM Cloud By Jon Stokes, Posted October 19, 2011
	VMware profits more than double in Q3 Looks like Microsoft, slurps cash like Microsoft By Timothy Prickett Morgan, Posted. 18th October 2011
	Memory Trick Could Speed Up the Web Storing information on volatile memory instead of hard disks could vastly speed up computing, researchers say. By Neil Savage, Monday, October 17, 2011
	Google Engineer Accidently Shares His Internal Memo About Google + Platform By John Furrier, Posted October 12th, 2011
	Benioff's Private Cloud Bluster: Can It Last? Salesforce CEO Benioff won't be stopped by Oracle CEO Ellison, as demonstrated by the Oracle OpenWorld keynote spat. Will Benioff's customers insist he stop the private cloud denial? By Laurianne McLaughlin, October 06, 2011
	Oracle’s Larry Ellison finally puts his head in the cloud Sean Ludwig, October 6, 2011
	The Battle for the Government As governments all over the world move their IT to the cloud, they are becoming some of Google and Microsoft's most coveted customers. By Lee Gomes Wednesday, October 5, 2011
	Deduplication: a power-hungry way to streamline storage Data wants to stay single By Trevor Potts Posted 6th October 2011
	What is a File? (PDF) By Richard Harper, Eno Thereska, Sian Lindley, Richard Banks, Phil Gosset, William Odom, Gavin Smyth, and Eryn Whitworth Posted 1 October 2011
	Oracle accuses Autonomy chief of telling 'whopper' 'Either Mr Lynch has a very poor memory or he’s lying' By Chris Mellor, Posted 29th September 2011 10:10 GMT Autonomy slams Oracle's 'Lynch tells whoppers' claim 'They seem a little confused' By Chris Mellor, Posted 29th September 2011 12:54 GMT
	A DNA Tower of Babel As more and more people's genomes are decoded, we need better ways to share and understand the data. By David Ewing Duncan, Posted September 23, 2011
	Red Hat swells sales and profits in fiscal Q2 So much Unix to eat, so little time By Timothy Prickett Morgan, 22nd September 2011
	Trouble on the high seas for MySQL? New commercial extensions worry MySQL community By Brian Proffitt , September 19, 2011
	Google Native Client: The web of the future - or the past? This time, it's Mozilla v Google By Cade Metz in San Francisco, Posted on 12th September 2011
	A New and Improved Moore's Law Under "Koomey's law," it's efficiency, not power, that doubles every year and a half. By Kate Greene, Posted on September 12, 2011
	Will Oracle or IBM Start a Bidding War with HP over Autonomy? By Dave Kellogg, Posted on August 21, 2011
	IBM borgs UK 'big data' outfit Big Blue echoes HP (The New Big Blue) By Cade Metz in San Francisco, Posted 31st August 2011
	Hits keep on coming: HP buys Autonomy for $11bn cash Brit techbiz poster-boy Autonomous no more By John Oates, 19th August 2011
	Why Accenture’s CTO made the move to NoSQL startup CEO By Derrick Harris Aug. 18, 2011
	'Major' C++ revision receives standards blessing Mind your language By Gavin Clarke, 15th August 2011 17:20 GMT
	Cloudera rallies tech troops behind Hadoop Stuffed elephants get certified By Cade Metz in San Francisco, 11th August 2011 17:58 GMT
	ERP Software Gets a Second Life in the Cloud Manufacturers can now be more flexible in the way they use planning software—a tool that's been cumbersome and expensive in the past. By Cindy Waxer, Thursday, July 14, 2011
	Database high priest mud-wrestles Facebook Rubbishes MySQL. Bitchslaps NoSQL. By Cade Metz, 13th July 2011 21:11 GMT
	Stonebraker trapped in Stonebraker ‘fate worse than death’ by Domas Mituzas, Posted on July 8, 2011
	Facebook trapped in MySQL ‘fate worse than death’ By Derrick Harris Jul. 7, 2011
	Open Source Business Models, Revisited By Dave Kellogg,, Posted on June 19, 2011
	Oracle seeks 'billions' with Google Android suit 'That's right. Billions. Tell the world. Billions' By Cade Metz at Friday 17 Jun 2011 17:41
	Rise of the "Hybrid" Mobile App Mobile apps that use Web technologies are easier to build and deploy on multiple platforms. By Christopher Mims, Friday, June 17, 2011
	Oracle and Itanic: Tech's nastiest ever row? HP vs Oracle And the pig enjoys it... By Andrew Orlowski at Friday 17 Jun 2011 04:49
	HP dubs Oracle 'bitter antagonist' in Itanic spat HP vs Oracle Anti-Hurd mentality By Timothy Prickett Morgan at Thursday 16 Jun 2011 21:44
	How Cisco's CIO Measures Performance Cisco employees rely on Cisco's IT, yet how does the CIO measure the value of IT? By Sean Michael Kerner, Posted on June 14, 2011
	Xeround reinvents MySQL atop Amazon cloud NoSQL. Without the No By Timothy Prickett Morgan at Tuesday 14 Jun 2011
	Welcome to a Faster Web The first commercial deployment of SPDY, a protocol designed by Google to make websites faster, launches today. By Erica Naone, Posted on Monday, June 13, 2011
	Google, Microsoft, and Yahoo Team Up to Advance Semantic Web A push to add meaning to Web pages to aid search could also enable other kinds of intelligent web apps. By Tom Simonite, Friday, June 10, 2011
	MongoDB daddy: My baby beats Google BigTable The web is built on objects. Not tables By Cade Metz at Wednesday 25 May 2011
	Software AG Buys Terracotta To Boost In-Memory, Cloud Offerings by Robin Wauters on May 23, 2011
	When is a database not so relational? Deep dive Storage in the cloud By Philip Howard at Tuesday 17 May 2011
	Autonomy Buys Iron Mountainâ€™s Digital Archiving, Online Backup Business For $380M by Robin Wauters on May 16, 2011
	Internet Search: The Reality of Link-Buying and Comment Spam By Dave Kellogg, Posted on May 13, 2011
	Oracle: Quit messin' and marry Hadoop! Open...and Shut Why Larry should pop the question By Matt Asay at Wednesday 11 May 2011
	Alpine Data Labs Scores $7.5 Million To Help Companies Analyze Troves Of Data by Robin Wauters on May 11, 2011
	The Open Source Software Paradox By Dave Kellogg, Posted on May 10, 2011
	Facebook fails webmail tests Nearly as bad as Hushmail By John Oates, Posted 5th May 2011
	Apps to stop data breaches are too complicated to use By Kevin Fogarty, Posted 4th May, 2011
Market Research Media	NoSQL Market Forecast 2011-2015 by admin Revised , Updated March, 2011
	CouchOne and Membase Merge To Form NoSQL Powerhouse Comprehensive, end to end NoSQL Open Source solution By Alan Shimel on Tue, 02/08/11 - 12:12am.
softwarestrategiesblog.com	Roundup of Cloud Computing Forecasts and Market Estimates, 2011 by Louis Columbus, January 1, 2011
	Surprise: 44% Of Business IT Pros Never Heard Of NoSQL They should. It's fast, resilient, and often cheaper than conventional databases. Plus, it's the backbone of many Web 2.0 sites. By Charles Babcock, September 18, 2010
	Marten Mickos says the cloud won't kill open source Even with the code hidden, it needs to remain open says the former MySQL CEO By Source Seeker on Wed, 06/16/10
	The Database Tea Party: The NoSQL Movement By Dave Kellogg, Posted on February 24, 2010
	Researchers tout 'wimpy nodes' for Net computing By Stephen Shankland October 16, 2009
	Google's Misleading Blog Post: The Size Of The Web And The Size Of Their Index Are Very Different By Michael Arrington, Posted On July 25th, 2008
	Relational database pioneer says technology is obsolete Michael Stonebraker blogs not to praise RDBMSes but to bury them By Eric Lai, Posted on September 6, 2007
	The 5 Minute Rule for Trading Memory for Disk Accesses and the 5 Byte Rule for Trading Memory for CPU Time By Jim Gray and Franco Putzolu, Published May, 1985