Matt Weinberger

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Eucalyptus Systems Gets Agile, Open Sources Its Cloud Platform

Eucalyptus has a new and important milestone, as its private cloud technology goes fully open source with the forthcoming release of Eucalyptus 3.1. Historically, the private cloud company had built its flagship (and proprietary) enterprise offering on top of an open source …

Big Data: The Convergence Point for IT and Marketing [Infographic]

NEWS By MATT WEINBERGER14 YEARS AGO

We’ve already begun to see how big data and analytics can translate into business agility and real results. But while the biggest transformation so far has been in sales, a new infographic from IBM says that marketing is going to be the …

Build Your Own Splunk-Like Central Log Management Tool With Open Source Software

NEWS By MATT WEINBERGER14 YEARS AGO

In the age of big data, log management is becoming an absolute necessity, as developers, operations, and, yes, DevOps have to deal with and process huge amounts of machine-generated data. Many organizations have turned to Splunk, a pioneer in the space, to …

What We Learned From The Amazon Web Services Apocalypse

NEWS By MATT WEINBERGER14 YEARS AGO

By now, you’ve no doubt heard about yesterday’s Amazon Web Services outage (tracked on Twitter with the inauspicious hashtag #AWSpocalypse), during which a power outage disrupted cloud service delivery from its Northern Virginia data center, leaving many customers (as well as Pinterest, Salesforce.com’s …

Facebook’s AvatarNode Solves a Major Hadoop Pain Point With High Availability

NEWS By MATT WEINBERGER14 YEARS AGO

Facebook is such a big fan of Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS) that it stores 100 petabytes of data in a single HDFS filesystem, across 100 clusters – including very probably the largest single cluster of its type. So it’s no wonder …

Yammer Would Be The Best $1 Billion Microsoft Could Ever Spend

NEWS By MATT WEINBERGER14 YEARS AGO

The rumor mill is working overtime with suggestions that Microsoft might be purchasing social networking provider Yammer for as much as $1 billion. But given Microsoft’s near-absence from the social landscape, that billion could be a bargain if it ensures the company’s relevancy …

Hadoop Summit: Ecosystem On The Edge of Forever

NEWS By MATT WEINBERGER14 YEARS AGO

Big data is heading down the path to becoming a $50 million industry by 2017. And while the incumbent big boys of the tech sector – HP, IBM, Intel, Oracle – dominate the emerging big data market at the moment, I’m here …

Open Standards and Practices Are The Secret Sauce to IT Scalability

NEWS By MATT WEINBERGER14 YEARS AGO

Social, mobile and big data may be the trends driving IT in 2012. But all of those markets have the cloud underpinning them to one degree or another. Cloud services are underpinned by cloud infrastructure which is underpinned by data center infrastructure. The cloud …

In Infrastructure and APIs, The Next Step For The Cloud Is Openness

NEWS By MATT WEINBERGER14 YEARS AGO

The cloud computing market is changing. Previously, the big concerns have ranged from “Is the cloud transformation really happening?” to “Can I afford the cloud?” to “Why would I ever use the cloud?” But Cloud Expo 2012, taken as a snapshot of …

Microsoft Windows Azure, Ubuntu and the Big Data Connection

NEWS By MATT WEINBERGER14 YEARS AGO

Much has been made already of the new services and features that are coming to the Microsoft Windows Azure cloud. But while everybody (myself included) talks about the new infrastructure-as-a-service and Azure Web Sites components of the enhanced Azure, there’s something interesting …

Matt Weinberger

Latest from Matt Weinberger

Big Data: The Convergence Point for IT and Marketing [Infographic]

Build Your Own Splunk-Like Central Log Management Tool With Open Source Software

Facebook’s AvatarNode Solves a Major Hadoop Pain Point With High Availability

Hadoop Summit: Ecosystem On The Edge of Forever

Open Standards and Practices Are The Secret Sauce to IT Scalability

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