Opscode boosts scale, adds Active Directory support to Chef
Striving to make Chef more enterprise-friendly, Opscode added Microsoft Active Directory and Solaris support to the automated configuration management tool. It also says that its Private Chef version can now wring three times as much work out of the same old hardware.
The Hottest IPO You’ve Never Heard Of
With an expected valuation of close to $100 billion, it’s understandable that no one can stop talking about Facebook’s initial public offering this week. But while Facebook basks...
Amazon updates CDN for dynamic content
Amazon says its updated Cloudfront content delivery network will better handle dynamic, interactive web content. To date, Cloudfront handled static web pages while Amazon left a lot of the heavy lifting of dynamic content to partners like CDN market leader Akamai.
Why You Should Build Your Apps on a Cloud Platform – And How to Choose the Right One
If your business is producing Web sites, then it's all too easy to assume that the way you innovate is by producing bigger, broader, more content. When you...
SAP cuddles up with Amazon, but what about Azure?
News that SAP and Amazon will All-in-One business applications to run in production on Amazon's public cloud raises a question: what's going on with SAP and Microsoft Windows Azure? News on this could come next week at the Sapphire 2012 show. Or not.
Amazon and SAP put All-in-One in the cloud
SAP All-in-One business applications will now run in Amazon's cloud -- another step that could make Amazon Web Services more enticing to risk-averse businesses that stress over entrusting their life-blood applications to a public cloud.
HP puts OpenStack cloud into public beta
The OpenStack army marches on. On Thursday, Hewlett-Packard put its public cloud to public beta. The services had been available to a limited number of customers up till now. The news comes a week after Rackspace launched its own OpenStack cloud.
VMware: ‘The software-defined data center is coming’
VMware CTO Steve Herrod has a message for the IT world: "[S]pecialized software will replace specialized hardware throughout the data center." Via virtualizations and SDNs, software-defined data centers will bring the dynamic natures of Google, Facebook and Zynga data centers into the mainstream.
The big picture on Rackspace’s Q1: It’s becoming Mr. Hyde
Rackspace is the Dr. Jekyll of hosting. For the last few years, it has been a legacy managed hosting provider by day that dabbled in cloud computing at night. As Dr. Jekyll ultimately did, though, Rackspace is becoming Mr. Hyde for good.
All aboard the Hadoop money train
Market research firm IDC released the first legitimate market forecast for Hadoop on Monday, claiming the ecosystem around the de facto big data platform will sell almost $813 million worth of software by 2016. But Hadoop's actual economic impact is likely much, much larger.
Inktank launches to change the face of open-source storage
The lead developers behind open-source storage system Ceph have launched a company, called Inktank, to commercialize the software. The company describes Ceph as a "fully open source, distributed object store, network block device, and POSIX-compatible distributed file system designed for reliability, performance, and scalability."
Cloud migration still poses mine field for IT vendors
Legacy IT vendors used to dealing with one or two ways of delivering their products and services to market, now must handle four, five, maybe more business models as cloud computing takes off. And many, according to Accenture, are not prepared for that complexity.
