| Weekly Case Study: IBM Credits Virtualization With Helping Client Contain Server Sprawl IBM had a credit card processor client with more than 4,700 servers spread across 10 data centers. IBM did an analysis and found that the servers were being underutilized. The solution? IBM recommended the client create a virtualization platform that consolidated servers and lowered the time and cost of administration. Download the case study ... Continue Reading » Cloud Computing is Good for the Environment. Really? Greenpeace raised the heat several months ago when the organization lambasted data center operators for contributing to global warming. The organization has recently intensified criticism by targeting Facebook in campaigns to force the company to move away from using coal-based utilities. In contrast, a new study by Microsoft, Accenture and WSP Environment & Energy reports that cloud computing... Continue Reading » NoSQL: Comparing the Different Solutions Adrian Cockcroft, a cloud architect at Netflix, is running a series of posts looking at how different NoSQL databases handle common cloud computing tasks. All the usual disclaimers apply: SQL is good for some things, and different scenarios call for different NoSQL solutions. No one solution is necessarily "better" overall. However, as Cockcroft writes "We need a basis for comparison across them,... Continue Reading » Weekly Poll: What Cities Should Be Chosen for a Hackathon Tour? The folks at Alcatel-Lucent have cooked up a plan with the organizers of the Glue conference that even the most jaded blogger would find of interest. Fifteen winners will be flown to Denver for the Glue Conference next spring to show off what they created using APIs that leverage the cloud. But here's the cool part. Alcatel-Lucent and the Glue folks will sponsor a nationwide hackathon tour... Continue Reading » Create Mashups in the Cloud with Microsoft Azure DataMarket and JackBe Mashup tool provider JackBe is working with Microsoft to create dashboard apps using Azure DataMarket. In our coverage of the DataMarket, we noted that it's a marketplace, not an app environment. That's where JackBe comes in. JackBe can run in Azure to help end users create their own mashups using data sources from the marketplace. JackBe shares an example app in a company blog post. The example... Continue Reading » Update: No Cause for Concern - InnoDB Remains Free as Part of MySQL Community Edition Time to clear some things up. A rush of concern popped up on Twitter this morning about Oracle dropping support for InnoDB. This is not the case. Here's what is really happening. InnoDB is free as part of the MySQL community edition, under a GPL license. For enterprise support, InnoDB is included with the exception of the Classic Edition, which uses the MyISAM storage engine. The classic... Continue Reading » | 
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