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…
Originally posted on TED Blog:
Summer: the season for cracking open a good book under the shade of a tree. Below, we’ve compiled about 70 stellar book recommendations from members of the TED community. Warning: not all of these books can be classified as beach reads. And we think that…
There should be no doubt that the future of IT infrastructure is in public cloud. Exhibit C: Google has built a model run in a neural network to predict datacenter efficiencies. They’re using the model to make decisions about infrastructure changes on the raised floor. An enterprising engineer saw that […]
Azure Release Management – Windows 2k8 retiring For those of you building out private cloud service stacks, one of the big questions is – how do I deal with release management? What happens when we retire an old version of the OS? Here’s how Azure appears to be doing it. […]
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…
Originally posted on TED Blog:
(L-R) Charlie Rose and Larry Page. Photo: James Duncan Davidson The illustrious questioner Charlie Rose and Google cofounder and CEO Larry Page take their seats on the TED stage for a Q&A during Session 6: Wired. They talk about Page’s latest projects, Snowden’s appearance and…
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…
