Except for the folks at Cray, most people are unaware of the unique requirements that set apart supercomputing infrastructure from cloud computing infrastructure. In its simplest form…

The past 12 months, we have implemented a handful of global cloud platforms that connect US, EU, and APAC. The common impetus behind these projects is to…

Amazon Silk (more…)

The Semantic Web captures the semantics, or meaning, of data, and machines are enabled to interact with that meta data. It is an idea of WWW pioneer…

With the explosion of data and the need to make sense out of it all on a smart phone is creating an interesting opportunity. Mobile devices need…

Found a wonderful post by Greg Papadopoulos in which he postulates the trend towards interclouds. Greg argues that Amazon's AWS BYOS/IaaS (Bring Your Own Stack) is the…

Amazon's e-commerce site is planning to move into Amazon Web Services. Jen Boden is Amazon's e-commerce IT director. "Boden said her organization is in the preliminary stages…

Our good folks at the national labs have been developing cloud computing for two decades, so what they are doing now is possibly an indication of what…

Over at Smart Data Collective, Bill Cooper wrote a wonderful article on deep analytics. In particular, I liked his assessment on the resistance expressed by customers that…

Appirio, a company that helps enterprise customers leverage PaaS cloud platforms such as Salesforce.com and Google Apps, put a nice interactive navigator on their website.The Appirio cloud…