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Microsoft Corporate Vice President Quentin Clark discusses data, data platforms, and more

Microsoft Corporate Vice President Quentin Clark discusses data, data platforms, and more

By Paul Miller on April 2, 2014

The Data Platform Group at Microsoft does a lot, from SQL Server and their Hadoopey HDInsight offering through to Business Intelligence and analytics capabilities which sit in or on top of the humble Excel spreadsheet. I’ve touched upon pieces of this whole before, in a 2009 podcast on Azure with Amitabh Srivastava (then Corporate VP […]

Posted in Platforms | Tagged azure data market, BI, big data, Business Intelligence, cloud computing, data markets, data platform group, Enterprise Computing, excel, microsoft, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft SQL Server, open data, Podcast, quentin clark, sql server

Teradata Labs President Scott Gnau discusses the evolving data analytics market

Teradata Labs President Scott Gnau discusses the evolving data analytics market

By Paul Miller on March 7, 2014

With all the noise around newer technologies such as Hadoop, it would be easy to assume that the data analytics space is new — and totally dominated by the NewSQL/ NoSQL tools pouring out of the world’s startups. It would be easy. But it would also be wrong. Data analytics, business intelligence, and related ideas are not new. […]

Posted in Trends & Concepts | Tagged Apache Hadoop, big data, Business Intelligence, Data analysis, data analytics, Enterprise Computing, hadoop, Podcast, Scott Gnau, Teradata, Teradata Labs | 1 Response

Adaptive Computing CEO Robert Clyde talks about Big Data, and lessons from the world of High Performance Computing

Adaptive Computing CEO Robert Clyde talks about Big Data, and lessons from the world of High Performance Computing

By Paul Miller on February 25, 2014

It’s sometimes easy to assume that the large clusters of commodity servers commonly associated with open source big data and NoSQL approaches like Hadoop have made supercomputers and eye-wateringly expensive high performance computing (HPC) installations a thing of the past. But Adaptive Computing CEO Robert Clyde argues that the world of HPC has evolved, and […]

Posted in Trends & Concepts | Tagged adaptive computing, big data, cloud computing, data centre, Enterprise Computing, high performance computing, hpc, iaas, moab, Podcast, rob clyde, robert a. clyde, robert clyde

Podcasting again… with StorSimple’s Marc Farley

Podcasting again… with StorSimple’s Marc Farley

By Paul Miller on January 28, 2014

I used to podcast pretty regularly, on this site and elsewhere. Then other things got in the way and, before I knew it, almost two years had passed since my last podcast here. Well, it’s time to put that right. I’m podcasting again, and I’ve got a nice pipeline of guests lined up over the […]

Posted in Technology | Tagged cloud computing, cloud storage, Enterprise Computing, iaas, Marc Farley, microsoft, Podcast, storsimple

Is PaaS dying?

Is PaaS dying?

By Paul Miller on December 18, 2013

The ‘platform’ tier in the middle of cloud computing’s architecture is being squeezed, folded and reshaped beyond recognition. Even with continued investment, can it survive the transformative pressures forcing down upon it from the software/application layer above, or the apparently inexorable upward movement from the infrastructure layer upon which it rests? To look at recent […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Open Source, Platforms | Tagged cloud computing, Enterprise Computing, paas, platform as a service | 1 Response

Unpicking the multi-cloud at GigaOM Structure

Unpicking the multi-cloud at GigaOM Structure

By Paul Miller on May 16, 2013

Image © Mission Bay Conference Center Last month, RightScale’s State of the Cloud report got me thinking about the rise of multi-cloud solutions. Next month, I’ll be moderating a Mapping Session at GigaOM’s Structure event to work out how, where, when, why and if this trend is going to prove significant. Hybrid clouds, in which one […]

Posted in Platforms | Tagged ben kepes, cloud, cloud computing, david linthicum, Enterprise Computing, GigaOM, GigaOM Pro, gigaom research, hybrid cloud, iaas, jo maitland, mapping session, mission bay, multi cloud, multicloud, private cloud, public cloud, rightscale, San Francisco, structure, structure 2013, structureconf

Discussing Virtual Machine interoperability with the Open Data Center Alliance

Discussing Virtual Machine interoperability with the Open Data Center Alliance

By Paul Miller on May 16, 2013

The Open Data Center Alliance (ODCA) is holding its Forecast event in San Francisco in June, and I’ve been invited to moderate the panel discussing Virtual Machine Interoperability. As moderator, I’ll be far more interested in facilitating insights from panel and audience than in wittering on about what I think, so I wanted to use this […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Platforms | Tagged cloud computing, data center, data centre, Enterprise Computing, forecast13, forecast2013, Hypervisor, iaas, interoperability, odca, open data center alliance, Virtual machine, virtual machine interoperability, VM, vm interoperability

Xeround, and a tale of evolving business models

Xeround, and a tale of evolving business models

By Paul Miller on May 3, 2013

Cloud database company Xeround announced that they’re shutting down the version of their service hosted in public clouds such as Amazon, Rackspace, GreenQloud, and others. Users of the free service have until 8 May to move elsewhere, whilst paying customers have until 15 May. The company describes this as an attempt to “re-focus,” with the […]

Posted in Business, Featured Posts, Open Source, Platforms | Tagged amazon, business model, cloud computing, cloud database, database, Enterprise Computing, freemium, greenqloud, mysql, rackspace, saas, software as a service, xeround

Survey lifts covers on Cloud Promiscuity: good thing, bad thing, or who cares?

Survey lifts covers on Cloud Promiscuity: good thing, bad thing, or who cares?

By Paul Miller on April 30, 2013

Figures from RightScale‘s latest State of the Cloud Report (free registration required) suggest “a strong interest in multi-cloud strategies” amongst respondents. The rationale for hybrid cloud (mixing a public cloud service like Amazon’s with something running in your own data centre, colocation site or hosting facility) is reasonably well understood, but why might companies choose to use more […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Trends & Concepts | Tagged cloud computing, data center, data centre, enstratius, Enterprise Computing, hybrid cloud, multi cloud, private cloud, public cloud, rightscale

[Some of] what you need to know about the cloud for 2013

[Some of] what you need to know about the cloud for 2013

By Paul Miller on January 4, 2013

Towards the end of last year, David Linthicum and I joined GigaOM’s Adam Lesser on a skype chat to take a look back at cloud successes and failures in 2012, and forward to cloud opportunities in 2013. GigaOM released the conversation as a podcast this morning. Amazon, Rackspace, Google, OpenStack, DropBox, and more get a […]

Posted in Trends & Concepts | Tagged 2012, 2013, acquisitions, adam lesser, amazon, Amazon Web Services, cloud computing, david linthicum, dropbox, Enterprise Computing, GigaOM, GigaOM Pro, gigaompro, openstack, Podcast, predictions, rackspace, Review | 1 Response

Hewlett Packard: a tale of many clouds

Hewlett Packard: a tale of many clouds

By Paul Miller on December 13, 2012

Hewlett Packard used its Discover event in Frankfurt last week to reassert the company’s cloud credentials. Public, private, hybrid; HP is painting pictures that encompass them all, whilst seeking to protect hardware revenues and reassure conservative executives at some of its largest and most profitable customers. But HP has been here before, making bold claims […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Infrastructure, Open Source | Tagged cloud computing, dell, dell world, discover2012, Enterprise Computing, Frankfurt, hewlett packard, hp cloud, HP Discover, HPDiscover, hybrid cloud, michael dell, openstack, private cloud, public cloud, Service level agreement, sla, vmware

‘Autonomy Inside’ matters at Hewlett Packard

‘Autonomy Inside’ matters at Hewlett Packard

By Paul Miller on December 11, 2012

The Hewlett Packard marketing machine was busy last week, assuring the world that the company’s £7.1bn ($11.7bn) acquisition of Autonomy still made sense despite an eye-watering financial write down and unseemly public squabbling with the Cambridge company’s former management. HP CEO Meg Whitman used her keynote at HP Discover in Frankfurt to assert that the […]

Posted in Business, Enterprise, Featured Posts | Tagged Autonomy, big data, cloud computing, discover2012, Enterprise Computing, Frankfurt, hewlett packard, hp, HP Discover, HPDiscover, John Furrier, Leo Apotheker, Meg Whitman, Mike Lynch | 2 Responses

When did Amazon abandon Main Street for ‘the Skyscrapers of Cloud Hosting’ ?

When did Amazon abandon Main Street for ‘the Skyscrapers of Cloud Hosting’ ?

By Paul Miller on August 20, 2012

In the competitive world of cloud-based computing infrastructure, Amazon remains top dog. It’s highly visible, its footprint is almost global, it incrementally adds features or cuts prices to keep competitors on their toes, and it generally manages to meet most people’s needs, most of the time. It may not always offer the lowest prices, or […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Infrastructure, Platforms | Tagged Amazon Web Services, aws, cloud computing, CloudSigma, digitalocean, Enterprise Computing, financial times, iaas, Infrastructure as a service, pando daily, rackspace, trevor gilbert | 1 Response

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Solar power in the data centre – solution or window dressing?

By Paul Miller on March 19, 2012

Most of us recognise that the Earth is warming and that — despite our planet’s temperatures having dramatically risen and fallen before — we humans must accept some measure of responsibility for the current changes. Already consuming at least 1.1-1.5% of global power, and only forecast to grow ever-more rapacious, the data centres that power our information […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Infrastructure | Tagged Amazon Web Services, Apple, cloud computing, data center, data centre, energy consumption, Enterprise Computing, environment, global warming, green energy, james hamilton, Oregon, solar energy, solar power

TOSCA may prove a prescient name for new cloud standards effort

TOSCA may prove a prescient name for new cloud standards effort

By Paul Miller on January 25, 2012

Image via Wikipedia Last week, open standards body OASIS unveiled yet another shiny new standards effort. The OASIS Topology and Orchestration Specification for Cloud Applications (TOSCA) Technical Committee hopes to make it “easier to deploy cloud applications without vendor lock-in,” and to support moving from one cloud to another. The usual suspects — the likes of IBM, […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Infrastructure, Open Source | Tagged Cisco Systems, cloud computing, Enterprise Computing, google, iaas, IBM, Open standard, paas, saas, TOSCA, vendor lock-in

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