Posts Tagged ‘cloud’

A Look at Clustered File Systems: Interview with Gluster’s Anand Babu Periasamy

As the saying goes, few things in life are certain except death and taxes. To that, we should add another certainty: that the amount of data that you need to store and manage will continue to grow at a rapid pace

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A Look at Clustered File Systems: Interview with Gluster’s Anand Babu Periasamy

GigaOM Bunker Session Coming Up: On the Cloud and Open Source

Does the enterprise know that FOSS (Free Open Source Software) is a big foundation of its next phase of computing and will it actively fuel the future of FOSS? Or will we slip back to business as normal and proprietary software? The rise of cloud computing and SaaS has been in no small part due to the availability of enabling platforms and applications in the open source domain – tools like Hadoop, Xen and Puppet to name a few.

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GigaOM Bunker Session Coming Up: On the Cloud and Open Source

MySQL Veteran Marten Mickos Joins Eucalyptus Systems

Eucalyptus Systems, the open souce cloud computing company that we’ve covered numerous times , has announced that former MySQL chief Marten Mickos is its new CEO. Some initial details on the deal appeared in The New York Times on Friday

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Open Cloud Sync and Standards Matter More Now Than Ever

We’ve written numerous times about how significant open source and open standards are becoming in cloud computing , and about how many companies and organizations are pursuing hybrid public/private cloud solutions. For those, flexible and open software platforms are extremely promising. Today, in an interesting post, Canonical’s Matt Asay notes that whether an organization’s approach to synchronization is open is critical to cloud computing.

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Open Cloud Sync and Standards Matter More Now Than Ever

Evan Prodromou Speaks on the Future of StatusNet

There’s no moss growing on StatusNet these days. The company has been busy announcing cloud service plans , an enterprise network service , and the 0.9 release of the open source StatusNet microblogging platform

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Evan Prodromou Speaks on the Future of StatusNet