Posts Tagged PaaS

Google Playing the Big Data Long Game

Posted by Jeff Kelly in Analytics, Big Data on June 28, 2012


Update: MapR and Google announced at Google I/O 2012 that MapR’s Hadoop distributions will be available on-demand via the new Google Compute Engine, validating Wikibon’s previous analysis. Pressure remains on Hortonworks, Cloudera, other Big Data vendors to shore up their cloud strategies.

For the company that invented MapReduce, Google didn’t have much of a presence in the commercial Big Data market until just last month (with the public release of BigQuery.) While Yahoo! engineers took Google’s concept and spearheaded the open source Hadoop movement, Google was happy to quietly develop its own Big Data platform for its own internal use.

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IBM says Goodbye to Blade Servers and Hello to Convergence with PureSystems

Posted by Stuart Miniman in Cloud Computing, Convergence, Infrastructure 2.0, Wikibon on April 12, 2012


IBM rolled out the red carpet for the launch in NYC

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