Richard Davies wrote: The UK has a good crop of technology pioneers in cloud computing - for example ElasticHosts, FlexiScale, Flexiant, OnApp - and also some strong government initiatives such as G-Cloud.
We will have to see whether this kind of technical leadership converts into swift mass-market adoption or not.
Jan. 8, 2012 11:38 AM EST
"We are pleased to be able to pass the improvements that Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization 3.0 offers in centralized provisioning of virtual desktops directly on to our customers," states Florian Spatz, Product Marketing Manager at IGEL Technology, who also points out that, "this partn...
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MapR Technologies Tuesday released version 1.2 of its MapR Distribution for Apache Hadoop. The widgetry is imbued with more features to leverage MapReduce 2.0, when it gets here, a move meant to push the start-up way ahead of its Hadoop rivals.
Out now in an early alpha cut called Ya...
Goosed by Oracle – which has refused to port any more of its software to the Itanium chip signally used by HP – HP announced an oddly named Odyssey Project that’s supposed to unify Unix and x86 server architectures.
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Boundary, a real-time network monitoring-as-a-service (MaaS) start-up that’s been pretty sub rosa since it got organized last year, surfaced Tuesday sporting a Big Data analytics platform as well that’s supposed to do what Hadoop and Cassandra do but a thousand to tens of thousands tim...
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Imagine no more, Progress DataDirect Connect for ODBC does all that – and more. In addition to using wire protocol technology to eliminate...
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Red Hat says it delivers high-speed/low latency, ...
Penguin Computing, experts in high performance computing (HPC) solutions, on Tuesday announced the immediate availability of PODtool, an interface that makes it easy to offload excess workload to Penguin’s on-demand environment Penguin Computing on Demand (POD).
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One repor...
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