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Forrester Analyst: PaaS a ‘Revolution’ for Web Content Management
Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) has sparked a “revolution” in how web content management (WCM) products are built. According to Forrester Research analyst Mark Grannan, PaaS removes friction from the delivery process by automating infrastructure tasks which allows digital practitioners to focus on content.
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How Will EMC's Once Pivotal Ambitions Play Out?
It was less than three years ago that EMC and VMware spinoff, Pivotal, officially became a business. The New York Times ran an article at the time calling it a “well-financed competitor to Amazon Web Services.
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Will Cloud Foundry Be Key to Computing's History?
“The times they are a changin’.” For anyone who’s not a fan of rock music history that quote may not resonate, but it comes from a song that Bob Dylan wrote in the 1960s.
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Kimball Group Offers Best Practices for the Big World of Big Data
Since it's big and ingests lots of new kinds of things, Big Data makes many of its own rules. A new report from the Kimball Group attempts to present the best practices for dealing with this frontier. The report, Newly Emerging Best Practices for Big Data (registration required) points out that
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EMC's Fun to Watch Story Begins - If PaaS is the Future, Pivotal Initiative Holds the Key
The convergence of Big Data and Cloud will radically change the Enterprise Computing game. EMC’s Chairman, Joe Tucci, and his lieutenants have been evangelizing on this idea for years, though they’ve used different variations of the words.
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Microsoft Launches Private Cloud Tools for Windows Server 2012
Microsoft is continuing its efforts to expand the breadth of its cloud offerings. Last month, the company enhanced Azure with several features, most notably, Linux support. Now Microsoft has its sights set on the private web.
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Competing Against Amazon, Microsoft Adds Linux Support to Windows Azure Cloud
This has been a big few weeks for cloud news from some of the biggest names in technology. Larry Ellison did an about-face and now loves the cloud. Both Oracle and Red Hat made major announcements about their cloud strategies. Hewlett-Packard talked up its public cloud strategy at HP Discover.
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Don't Demonize. Monetize: the Genius of APIs, the Trend of Platformification
I pulled many valuable nuggets out of Alan Cooper's talk at SXSW, like the one that explains the rise of the sniper app. Near the end of his talk, I asked him why the business, UX and design communities are not embracing the current trend in API proliferation (a.k.a.
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PaaS Providers Flow Tackles Big Data while AppFog Adds Partners
Not one, but two platform-as-a-service (PaaS) announcements hit the wire today. First Flow Corporation announced a new cloud based real-time data platform called Flow Platform, which allows next generation applications, particularly mobile ones, to manage multiple information streams through one interface.
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Eccentex Invests in PaaS, Dynamic Case Management
In January, Deb Miller wrote that “Business agility is all about being prepared for and able to quickly adapt to change." Perhaps Eccentex was listening. Today the dynamic case management solution provider announced that it had raised US$ 7.
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Amazon Brings the Grandfather of NoSQL to AWS
There is a big huge not exactly new player in the NoSQL market. Amazon has brought DynamoDB back. Dramatic pause. Dynamo was NoSQL before there was a NoSQL. DynamoDB, NoSQL Before NoSQL Was NoSQL In late 2007, Amazon published a paper, “Dynamo: Amazon’s Highly Available Key-value Store ” that
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Open Source Cloud Tier 3 Enters Market, Competes with Azure
Microsoft has been taking big steps to make its cloud platform, Windows Azure, more attractive. Just last week the company announced support for several popular open source development tools including Node.js and Hadoop.
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Microsoft Azure Embraces Open Source Technologies
Microsoft is taking big strides to make its Azure cloud service more attractive. The company has announced several updates to the platform aimed at improving its usability. The company, which has long been criticized for a less-than-friendly stance on open source, is continuing to show that giants can change.
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All Paths Lead to the Cloud in Microsoft's Product Roadmap
Microsoft has released its server roadmap and all paths lead to the cloud. It appears that although the company will continue to sell on-premise products, it really wants customers to move to cloud-based products. Lots to Do, Short Time to Do It Microsoft has kind of, sort of disclosed its roadmap for the
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