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BotchagalupeMarks for June 16th – 12:46
By John | June 17, 2009
These are my links for June 16th from 12:46 to 13:33:
- Like Google, Salesforce Is Pushing Its Platform for the Enterprise – Looks like a three way battle for the enterprise PaaS (GAE, Azure, and Force)
- The GigaOM Interview: Kristof Kloeckner, CTO of IBM Cloud Computing – The offering seems like a crippled compromise between the scalability and flexibility that true computing clouds offers and what enterprises seem to be demanding when it comes to controlling their own infrastructure. I spoke today with the chief technology officer of IBM’s cloud computing division, Kristof Kloeckner, to learn more. Below is an edited account of our talk.
- Zenoss Releases New Version of its Enterprise IT Monitoring Product; Guarantees 50% Cost Savings Over Traditional Solutions – Commercial Open Source Application, Systems and Network Monitoring – Zenoss – The company is backing Zenoss Enterprise implementations with an industry-first guarantee of 50% or more cost savings on licensing, maintenance, and deployment compared to traditional products from HP, IBM, CA, and BMC.*
- Dell to Step Up M&A – BusinessWeek – With $10 billion to spend, Dell is trying to hire IBM's M&A whiz. Here are six companies experts say should be on Dell's list
- The Open Source Teaching Project – The Open Source Teaching Project (OST) mobilizes students to interview successful professionals so that they can inspire and inform the education and career decisions of other students. This free, digital media platform is provided for the benefit of the public, with a particular focus on reaching middle, high school, and post-secondary learners.
- Accenture jumps into open source in a big way | The Open Road – CNET News – Even as CIOs accelerate adoption of open source in an effort to trim costs and improve innovation, the world's top system integrators (SIs) have largely played it safe on the sidelines. Accenture, given its close partnership with Microsoft, has perhaps been one of the most conservative SIs when it comes to open source.
- Twitter features that I’d pay for | The Open Road – CNET News – Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey has suggested that "Twitter's a success for us when people stop talking about it," perhaps particularly its business model (or lack thereof). Unfortunately, either it's a success and I didn't get the memo, or it still has room to improve.
- With a Big Push, IBM Gives Cloud Computing Its Blessing – In other words, IBM’s approach to cloud computing: task-specific clouds. The company will offer business processes as cloud services, according to a company press release.
- ElasticVapor :: Life in the Cloud: Amazon EC2 gets Zapped Overnight – — Update –
The outage may not have been as broad as I first thought. According to several sources it was a fairly limited outage only effecting a small amount of EC2 users.
- Cloudera’s Distribution for Hadoop on Amazon EC2 with EBS Support BETA | Cloudera – We've created a new version of Cloudera's Distribution for Hadoop EC2 launch scripts that supports HDFS storage on EBS. You can still use the scripts to launch transient clusters, as described at Cloudera's Distribution for Hadoop on Amazon EC2.
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