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RIP Dell, and now BMC Software. Both companies were born in Texas in the 1980s and died in 2013. Cause of death: crushed by the public markets. Dell and BMC passed away after a long battle to reinvent themselves in the era of cloud computing and mobile technology. Companies without the legacy baggage they so [...] Read more »

Cloud computing is finally starting to add value to business, as those in charge of cloud within enterprises are moving from talking to doing. That much was very evident in the first quarter of 2013. Read more »

I decided to get my geek-on Wednesday night and attend the first Netflix Open Source Software meet-up. I’m glad I did. I learned more about the challenges of running at scale in the cloud (or at least in Amazon’s cloud) at this event than I have at the past few conferences I’ve been to, including [...] Read more »

Cloud computing is moving from its honeymoon period to the reality that it’s a complex distributed system that will require sound thinking within enterprise IT. Read more »

The database market, SaaS-based BI tools, and data warehousing as a service top the list for big data trends to watch in 2013. Read more »

Amazon's first ever cloud-computing conference, re: Invent, sought to convince CIOs that the company's cloud is now robust enough to produce enterprise-level workloads from a reliability, security and performance standpoint. Here are the highlights from last week's conference, and what Amazon must do to stay apace with its competitors and prove its longevity as a standalone business. Read more »

General Electric (GE) might not be the first company that springs to mind when you think of big data, but come January 2013 it hopes to change that. The industrial stalwart will formally launch its Grid IQ Insight software, a big data analytics platform that includes Cassandra and MySQL databases under the hood plus a modeling [...] Read more »

Amazon and VMware made significant cloud announcements, while Hadoop remained the talk of the town in big data. Read more »

The PaaS market is a slow grower, but it's shaping up to be a battle between a few giants. This report explains the trends driving the PaaS market and which companies are best positioned to take advantage of those trends. Read more »

The big data skills gap is being overplayed. Next-generation data warehouses and BI tools enable complex data science for the masses. Read more »