Adaptive Computing Spans The DigitalGlobe
Given a choice between developing their own cluster and data management software or buying it off the shelf from third parties, most large enterprises would prefer to buy rather ...Full Article
Foundation Positions Cloud Foundry PaaS As Enterprise Standard
Cloud Foundry, the platform cloud framework long associated with VMware and then its Pivotal spinoff, is going the way of OpenStack now that Pivotal intends to establish a formal ...Full Article
SAP HANA Wrings Performance From New Intel Xeons
The in-memory HANA database designed by SAP to radically improve the performance of queries and transaction processing has been a boon to the company. It is the fastest growing ...Full Article
How Priceline.com Rid In-Memory Cache Of Java Jitters
Priceline.com is one of the early Internet startups, and as such it has built a lot of its own technology for gathering up pricing information on airfares, hotel rooms, ...Full Article
Enterprise Guru Nadella Takes The Helm At Microsoft
The search is over, and perhaps a calmer and more focused era is beginning for Microsoft now that it has tapped insider Satya Nadella to become its next chief ...Full Article
Cloud And Virtualization Combo Pushes VMware To $5 Billion Heights
Server virtualization giant VMware, majority-owned by EMC, had a banner year, punching through the $5 billion mark in total revenue for 2013. In fact, the company posted $5.21 billion ...Full Article
Stratus Moves Fault Tolerance From Hardware To Software
In the modern hyperscale datacenter, companies such as Google and Amazon code their applications so they span multiple servers and replicate work and data sufficiently that the crash of ...Full Article
The NoSQL Heart of Telco Messaging
You probably haven't heard of Openwave Messaging. But if you get email, voice mail, or other messaging services from a tier-one telecommunications firm, chances are fairly good that you ...Full Article
Facebook Whips Systems Into Shape With Customized Chef
Like many modern corporations that exist mainly to supply a service over the Internet, Facebook would like to use open source software wherever practical in its infrastructure and with ...Full Article
How Ancestry.com Branched Out And Embraced Scale
Ancestry.com is dedicated to discovering, preserving, and sharing family histories, and it knows all about the issues of scaling up IT operations to match a growing number of users. ...Full Article