Forget the Rest, Rackspace is Amazon’s Only Cloud Threat 
Derrick Harris- Sunday, November 15, 2009
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The mainstream cloud-computing market is becoming a two-horse race, with Rackspace gaining fast on Amazon Web Services, and leaving an idle Microsoft in the dust. AWS is by no means pulling up lame, but, as evidenced this week, Rackspace is gaining customers and adding features so fast it’s difficult to believe AWS will be able to fend it off forever. Subscribe now or sign in to view this Weekly Update »
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Is the FCC Becoming the Federal Cloud Commission?
The FCC must submit any proposed regulation through a notice-and-comment process. You can bet Google, Amazon, Microsoft and the other cloud giants will do their best to limit federal oversight of the cloud.
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Creating algorithms to enable machine-learning on top of big data is no trivial task. Good thing Mahout is not alone: Yahoo, at least, is working on it, and IBM is working on a computer to mimic the human brain.
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Cloud Computing: Where to Next?
There has been much build-up in the past couple years, and it looks like the cloud is about ready to rain. And every drop will be new capabilities that make the model even easier to embrace.
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What’s After Excel? Big Data and the Future of Spreadsheets
This is a very good question. IBM appears to have a possible solution in Big Sheets, but it seems like Microsoft should be doing everything it its power to adapt Excel to this new world.
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Nov 20, 2009 — I read a post today about the need for spreadsheets adapted to handle the big-data revolution. This is a very relevant discussion, especially if the author is correct that Excel simply cannot handle entire data sets of the sizes currently being generated. IBM is trying to become the Excel of big data with Big Sheets, but, let's be honest, the majority of the spreadsheet-using world would prefer to keep using Excel. Perhaps Microsoft is working as I write this to solve this exact problem, and it wouldn't surprise me in the least. The company already has tried to overcome Excel's limitations in the financial services space, so, clearly, it understands that Excel cannot last forever in its current form.
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If we think of cloud as an operating model, I'm seeing great interest in the adoption among newScale's customer base. What they want to do is to enable self-service catalog that abstracts the services IT provides, presents a clear consumption charge and reports. These services are physical dedicated, virtual dedicated, virtual shared and externally provided by an MSP or Hosting company. This is real stuff that is operating right now. But, this is a huge change in how IT does business so it will take a while for all moving parts to look like the nirvana vision of cloud.
—Rodrigo Flores on Who’s Using the Cloud and How? Who Knows.
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