Oracle’s Itanium Document Drop Catches HP With Its Pants Down
HP's Itanium debacle provides plenty of lessons for anyone who is willing to pay attention. For the past decade, HP has been making a valiant, if extremely misguided, attempt...
Loomio: Making Better Decisions Remotely Possible
Email, instant messaging, forums, code forges and other collaboration tools make it possible for distributed teams to get work done - but they're not great tools for making decisions. The team behind Loomio wants to solve that with a new Web-based tool...
S3 Storage for WordPress Blogs
Looking to tap Amazon S3 storage for your WordPress blog? The WP2Cloud plugin lets you store all your WordPress data - not just media files - in S3.
...
Google Prices its Cloud SQL Offering, Solidifies Cloud Database Market
The cloud database market continues to solidify as Google puts a price tag on its Cloud SQL offering. With actual charges to begin on June 12th, the move...
Easel.ly Makes Infographics Easy… But Should It?
Infographics are still a thing with a lot of companies, if my inbox is any indication. Easel.ly, a service that recently debuted in beta, is making it easy...
Google Easy Dashboard Library Makes Using Analytics API Easier
Google has long provided an API for automating Google Analytics, but it required developers to jump through a few more hoops than many would like. Yesterday, the company...
Why Is Microsoft Trying to Hobble Firefox on Windows 8 Tablets – and Why Does It Matter?
As Windows 8 approaches, Mozilla developers have been working hard on a Metro version. If you're using Windows 8 on the desktop, no problem. Tablet users, however, are...
Amazon Courts Windows Developers by Adding .Net to its Elastic Beanstalk
Microsoft's Azure just got a little more competition from Amazon. The cloud giant announced yesterday that it was adding support for SQL Server to its Relational Database Service...
Good News for Solving Bufferbloat: CoDel Provides "No Knobs" Solution
Data transfer speeds have been getting faster and faster, but that doesn't mean that we're actually reaping the full benefits. A few years ago, Jim Gettys put his...
Improvements in New York Times’ Fech Makes It Easier to Follow the Money
Having data available electronically is not the same thing as the data being useful. Campaign finance disclosures provided electronically by the Federal Elections Commission (FEC), are a good...
What "Data Gravity" Means to Your Data
If you've wondered why so many companies are eager to control data storage, the answer can be summed up in a simple term: data gravity. Ultimately, where data...
Inktank Joins the Cloud Storage Fray With Ceph Support
IDC says that spending for cloud storage will triple by 2015. It had better, because the roster of companies with their hands out for some of those storage...
