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Upon reading today that Cloudera added Vertica veteran Omer Trajman to its executive team, I began pondering the the future of the Hadoop-commercialization startup. It has been suggested that Oracle will snatch up Cloudera to complement its existing portfolio with Hadoop functionality. This outcome seems more likely when one considers that Oracle bought Cloudera CEO Mike Olson’s previous venture, Sleepycat Software, in 2006. The addition of  Trajman, however, suggests that Cloudera might attempt to fulfill its Red Hat-like potential  of bringing Hadoop software and support to enterprises as a public company. Cloudera is the pioneer in this space, its engineering team is top-notch, and leadership with traditional database experience will help businesses understand how and why Hadoop is important to them.

Infrastructure Links for this Week

  1. Piston unveils OpenStack-based private cloud OS

    Startup, Piston, has released its private cloud operating system, Piston Enterprise OS, based on OpenStack. Pricing starts at $3500 per server.

    Submitted by Jo Maitland

  2. Amazon adds single sign-on to AWS console

    Amazon has added a single sign-on feature to the Amazon Web Service management console making it easier for authenticated users to gain access to the console.

    Submitted by Jo Maitland

  3. Quantum computers could encrypt future cloud data

    Researchers say that quantum computers might one day be able to encrypt data in the cloud. There is the small fact that there are no quantum computers in existence yet, but hey, why let that stop a good idea!

    Submitted by Jo Maitland

  4. Joyent Cloud adds NodeFly application monitoring

    Joyent has hooked up with NodeFly to offer Node.js analytics services to Joyent Cloud customers. NodeFly is the first monitoring services company to integrate Node.js analytics into its offering. NodeFly developed the analytics service by pulling data from Joyent Cloud Analytics, to provide latency and performance measurements in real-time on production applications. NodeFly's Node.js analytics package only works for applications running in the Joyent Cloud.

    Submitted by Jo Maitland

  5. IBM unveils beta for IBM Docs

    IBM has taken the wraps of a beta version of its next version of IBM Docs, formerly known as Lotus Symphony, a suite of office-productivity applications including a word processor, spreadsheet and presentation tool. Sound familiar?

    Submitted by Jo Maitland

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