VMware’s VDI solutions top GigaOm’s VDI Sector Roadmap VMware rises to the top of GigaOm’s Sector RoadMap for VDI in 2014. GigaOm Research evaluated platforms based on their delivery model, security, integration to existing enterprise toolsets, the user experience and management tooling. VMware edged out Citrix to make the top […]
Originally posted on Gigaom:
DevOps-centric Puppet Labs closed a series E $40 million investment round, bringing its total funding to $86 million. The IT automation company plans on using the cash to expand globally and invest in research and development. This should be the last round of funding before Puppet…
Great list of books to read this summer from some very interesting people!
Originally posted on Gigaom:
My seven years on the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), from 2003 to 2010, definitely taught me interesting things, including how to get a group of people to deliver when you had no control over their jobs. As co-chair of the Network-based Mobility Management (NETLMM) working…
Originally posted on Cloud Computing Today:
In a stunning move that is likely to shape the Big Data space for years, Intel recently decided to partner with Cloudera to support its Hadoop distribution rather than enhancing Intel’s own Hadoop distribution. Cloudera will optimize its Hadoop distribution (CDH) to work with…
Originally posted on Gigaom:
Rackspace(s rax) turned over the reins of OpenStack to a foundation just over three years ago, in part to show that the open-source cloud framework was not dominated by one vendor. And presto, other vendors signed on in droves. There are, at last count: 8 top-tier Platinum members; 19…
Originally posted on Gigaom:
The modern computing era didn’t really start to take off until we figured out how to make operating systems that could remove a lot of the manual labor required to program early computers. According to Ari Gesher of Palantir Technologies, it’s time for a similar breakthrough…
I like the concept of additionality Larry outlines. He still keeps Tesla’s example in mind, and perhaps is disappointed that wealthy Googlers aren’t doing more to impact the world?
Originally posted on Gigaom:
It’s been a little over seven years since AWS launched S3 and EC2. Back then it was exciting to spin up servers in just a few minutes without signing long-term contracts. But fast-forward to 2014: there are dozens of IaaS providers offering similar capabilities. The selling…
Originally posted on Gigaom:
It’s been a few weeks since Microsoft(s msft) named Satya Nadella as its new CEO. Now the reverbs are starting. Julie Larson-Green has a new job, chief experience officer, which is a demotion. In the big “One Microsoft” reorg last summer, Larson-Green was heading up all Microsoft hardware efforts…
