For a year and a half, we have been reflecting on the increasingly pressing need to combine the world of cloud computing with its public IaaS and PaaS infrastructures and the world of mobile apps. Uniting in the sense that the world of apps is increasingly going beyond the limits imposed by the device to […]
In all honesty, I will never understand this tendency to buy everything, often competing products and solutions. I’ve never appreciated Oracle because I think it’s a dispersive company, I imagine the poor salespeople and technicians who don’t know what to offer to the customer, what combination of their products. But I just can’t imagine at […]
VMware, the undisputed leader of virtualization that in 2008 cut out the founders, Diane Greene, Mendel Rosenblum, to forcefully penetrate the cloud computing market (also thanks to the vision of Paul Maritz), these days is creating interesting movements on the network. 1. It seems that VMware, which we remember is the independent daughter of the […]
Lately, there has been a very strong movement and growth of the PaaS (Platform as a Services) ecosystem. Within a couple of months, AWS expanded its roots in the PaaS world by powerfully invading the world of Windows Azure. AWS BeanStalk, a PaaS service born for quite some time now, initially only for the Java […]
The Cloudera distribution that includes Apache Hadoop was found to be 81% faster than Oracle Sun X2270 cluster Fremont, Calif. – October 17, 2011 – SGI, the leader in technical computing, today announced that it has set a new world record on the Terasort Benchmark for processing and analyzing data using Apache Hadoop clusters running […]
Despite our long experience with AWS, we gladly accepted this two-day intensive partner course offered by Amazon Web Services. The course, held in Milan, demonstrates the excellent marketing strategy that AWS is implementing in Italy (also thanks to the presence of the excellent sales manager Nicola P.) to confirm its leadership and counter the […]
It is worth mentioning the storage virtualization solutions that Compellent, a US company based in Minnesota that works in the field of storage solutions of considerable thickness, has arrived. Acquired by Dell for $960 million in December 2010. We would like to point out: Live Volume It’s like a storage hypervisor, a volume mapped from […]
On October 4, 2011, Red Hat announced that it had entered into an agreement to acquire Gluster, an open source storage cluster software system headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, and developed in Bangalore, India. Gluster technology provides capabilities that make it a good fit for Red Hat’s cloud computing strategy. Red Hat is actively engaged in […]
While Aruba once again left millions of Italian sites on the ground, VMengine silently migrated, without jolts, without service stoppages, the portal Ninjamarketing.it from a physical server hosted dedicated to an Italian provider, to the clouds of Amazon Web Services. The Ninjas Ninja Marketing is the benchmark for innovation in marketing and communication. Founded in […]
On May 5, in the university complex of Monte Sant’Angelo, an appointment was held to compare the experiences of the two universities (Fed II and Cambridge) in the field of high-performance computing. The agenda that also saw the involvement of entities such as Dell, Intel, Mellanox and Nvidia was technically intense and full of excellent […]