This Is The Reason Cloud Computing Hasn't Taken Off Yet

Explore Business Insider (Jan 23 2012) Cloud & Virtualization

Certainly, the business world at large is interested in the benefits of the cloud, but enterprises have been very slow to adopt a key element of cloud computing: platform-as-a-service or PaaS. For the business world to fully embrace the cloud, they have to overcome a huge hurdle –getting their “core”/legacy/custom-developed applications to the cloud. This is where PaaS comes into play. PaaS provides the necessary cloud capabilities that allow enterprises to fully embrace custom application development through lowered infrastructure costs, less strain on existing resources and the ability to push IT to innovate rather than maintain. The primary ... (Read Full Article)

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John Chamber's Absolutely Awful Year

Explore Business Insider (Dec 27 2011) Editor's Spotlight

Cisco's CEO John Chambers has to be thrilled 2011 is over. This year he had to unwind acquisitions, sell or shut down businesses, watch as his rule-by committee management scheme failed , and listen to numerous calls for his head. Even the normally passive CNN Money wrote, "Everybody Hates Cisco." How brutal is that? So here's a quick look back at John Chambers awful year... (Read Full Article)

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Leave HP Alone!

Explore Business Insider (Aug 29 2011)

Autonomy, the British software HP is buying, isn't doing any kind of software, but big data analysis software. This is a huge growth area where there will be a huge shift in spending from enterprises...and more » (Read Full Article)

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Twitter Is Open-Sourcing Its Huge Powerful Data Processing Tool

Explore Business Insider (Aug 5 2011)

Twitter is going to open source its real-time data processing platform, Storm. It's a pretty big deal, at least for big data geeks, because Twitter processes more real-time data than most companies. And now it's pretty robust. (Read Full Article)

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Notes on Real Time Data, Content, & Analytics Roundtable

Explore Business Insider (Aug 3 2011)

Real time data is valuable in two ways, mainly. The first is that it crudely allows content providers to recognize spikes in popularity of pieces of content, so they can "double down" and mash on the proverbial "promote this content" button in order to drive engagement and uniques on their sites. The second way in which real time data is valuable is in the context of historical data. A rich historical data set allows content providers to establish significant correlations between behaviors and outcomes. Websites can then use real time data to identify, segment, and serve consumers in real time ... (Read Full Article)

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