How Long Can AWS Keep Climbing Its Steep Growth Curve?
With every new technology that takes off in the IT sector, there is a somewhat predictable curve. …
With every new technology that takes off in the IT sector, there is a somewhat predictable curve. …
There are many vectors to scale, and we try to examine them all here at The Next Platform as we consider the implications for the systems, storage, and switching that IT organizations buy or rent to support their applications. …
Long before it became the cloud computing juggernaut that it is today, Amazon was a fast-growing online retailer that bought its servers from traditional suppliers, starting with Hewlett-Packard and then moving on to Rackable Systems, an innovator in high density rack designs that is now part of SGI. …
One of the founding premises of this publication is that companies want to build platforms – complete stacks of hardware and systems software – or use those built by others that are tailored specifically to run their applications. …
The public cloud has hit several growing pains over the last several years. …
It is difficult to argue with the fact that Amazon has upset the traditional model of IT as a cost center. …
When you have tackled some of the biggest database and storage problems in hyperscale computing, what do you do as an encore? …
What is stronger than the US dollar? The cloud computing division of online retailing giant Amazon, which would have long since been in a heap of trouble with Wall Street if it had not fired up its utility computing service back in March 2006. …
Over the last eighteen months Hadoop distribution vendor, Hortonworks, has watched a stampede of users rush to the cloud, prompting the company to look for better ways to extend usability for first-time entrants to Hadoop territory and to accommodate the rush of test and dev workloads that prefer quick cloud deployments. …
If there is one lesson that the big three public cloud providers teach, it is that there is no substitute for breadth and depth in software engineering. …
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