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A Comprehensive Comparison of Windows Azure Blob Storage and Amazon Simple Storage Service (Part 2)

In part I of this blog post, we started comparing Windows Azure Blob Storage and Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3). We covered basic concepts and compared...

0 replies - 3891 views - 05/15/12 by Gaurav Mantri in Articles

How fast are JVM-based languages growing among developers?

The Big Three - Scala, Clojure and Groovy. The following is an article written by TheCodeGeneral (not too sure who he is, but is quite respected in the...

0 replies - 8771 views - 05/14/12 by Judah Johns in Articles

Effective Testing Strategies for MapReduce Applications

Effective Testing Strategies for MapReduce Applications In this article I demonstrate various strategies that I have used to test Hadoop...

0 replies - 5978 views - 05/02/12 by Tim Reardon in Articles

More Thoughts on Banking 2.0

I’ve been writing now for a few years about Banking 2.0 – a general term that I use to describe what financial services will look like when it...

0 replies - 6014 views - 04/28/12 by Ben Kepes in Articles

How the Cloud Can Assuage IT Challenges of Bring-Your-Own-Device

Last week, we talked about the some of the challenges associated with the use of consumer mobile devices in business. This week we wanted to dig a little...

0 replies - 3126 views - 04/27/12 by Andrew Fife in Articles

Build a Cloud and They Will Come. Build it Right, and They Will Stay

Wrong: Right: So, you’ve found the cloud application of your dreams.  It does everything you ever thought you could want and ten things you didn’t...

0 replies - 3802 views - 04/26/12 by Eric Berg in Articles

AWS Marketplace is Proof that Cloud Value is Higher up the Stack

Summary – it’s a long post so here’s what you need to know. Amazon Web Services is moving up the stack. Existing ecosystem partners will benefit from...

0 replies - 4176 views - 04/25/12 by Ben Kepes in Articles

Windows Azure Outages in South Central US Data Center

My OakLeaf Systems Azure Table Services Sample Project (Tools v1.4 with Azure Storage Analytics) demo application, which runs on two Windows Azure compute...

0 replies - 4611 views - 04/20/12 by Roger Jennings in Articles

Puppet is Now Powering OpenStack Implementations

Looking past the politics of whose Cloud stack is the best for a moment, the undeniable truth remains that no matter what you use, tools to help deploy and...

0 replies - 4591 views - 04/19/12 by Ben Kepes in Articles

Use Java API via Spring to Define a Cloud Environment (Heroku, Jelastic, and Cloudbees)

I put together Java sample applications using Spring 3.1. Using Spring’s Environment abstractions, we can gather details about the underlying...

0 replies - 4273 views - 04/17/12 by Gordon Dickens in Articles

Jenkins CI and JFrog Announce Joint Artifact Repository Solution in the Cloud

 Paris, April 17th, 2012: Jenkins User Conference Jenkins, the world’s most popular open source Continuous Integration server, and JFrog, the creator of...

0 replies - 2049 views - 04/17/12 by Shlomi Ben-haim in Announcements

Visualize Hive Data Sources in Hadoop on Azure Using Excel 2010 and the Hive ODBC Driver

Introduction Microsoft’s Apache Hadoop on Windows Azure Community Technical Preview (Hadoop on Azure CTP) includes a Hive ODBC driver and Excel add-in,...

0 replies - 5879 views - 04/12/12 by Roger Jennings in Articles

Amazon Debuts Cloud Search Service

This morning, Amazon announced the release of their cloud-based search platform, CloudSearch, which the company has been using on their website for some time...

0 replies - 4996 views - 04/12/12 by Eric Genesky in Articles

How to Use Windows Azure Blobs Data w/ Hadoop on Azure CTP

Introduction Avkash Chauhan (@avkashchauhan) and Denny Lee (@dennylee) have written several blog posts about the use of Windows Azure blobs as data...

0 replies - 4301 views - 04/09/12 by Roger Jennings in Articles

Cloud Security Alliance Introduces Security, Trust and Assurance Registry

As a vendor of security products, I see a lot of Requests for Proposal (RFPs). More often than not these consist of an Excel spreadsheet with...

0 replies - 3101 views - 04/06/12 by Scott Morrison in Articles