| Couchio Becomes CouchOne and Introduces Mobile App Development Platform Couchio, the corporate sponsor of CouchDB, announces today that it is changing its name to CouchOne and introducing CouchOne Mobile, a mobile app development platform based on CouchDB. As with many noSQL databases, there's been an explosion of interest and implementation in CouchDB, and we've written recently about a number of organizations and projects using CouchDB, including the large hadron... Continue Reading » What the VMworld Labs Demonstrated About the Cloud VMworld set up a lab this year that ran a hybrid cloud. The VMware team set up a data center at the Moscone Convention Center in San Francisco that connected to public clouds provided by Terremark in Miami, Florida and Verizon in Ashburn, Virginia. The hybrid cloud was redundant so if it went down, the load could be picked up elsewhere. This was the first year that VMworld used a hybrid cloud... Continue Reading » Latest Cyberduck Version Provides Better Cloud File Management Often appearing on lists of "must have" Mac software, the open source FTP, SFTP, and WebDAV client Cyberduck announced a new version yesterday that gives the tool even more file management features, including support for Google Storage and file versioning in Amazon S3. New features include integration of Access Control List editing for Amazon S3 and Google Storage so that permissions can be... Continue Reading » MySQL Diehard vs. NoSQL Fanboi: The Animated Movie There is often a charged debate between MySQL proponents and those who are increasingly excited about NoSQL. So, it's good to see a bit of levity enter the discussion. Every once in a while we need to sit back and not take ourselves too seriously. That seems to be the intention of this video that we found on High Scalability. Just be forewarned - this is NSFW. The video may be a bit harsh for... Continue Reading » Weekly White Paper: Curbing Skyrocketing IT Energy Costs Switch on a server and you've just doubled its cost. According to Gartner, between 2007 and 2012 most U.S. enterprise datacenters will spend as much on power and cooling as on the hardware itself. Gartner predicts that energy costs for IT operations could also double by 2012 due to the volume of data that will flow through organizations and the expected increase in utilities. The answer?... Continue Reading » 6 SaaS Metrics You Should Track As you work to develop your product - before and after launch, it's important that you use more than just "gut feelings" to ascertain what's working and what's not. Along those lines, last week, Ryan Carson, co-founder of Carsonified offered a list of six key metrics for your web app and how to track them. It's a great list - with definitions, calculation methods, examples, and even a link to a... Continue Reading » | 
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