March, 2011

CRN: Cloud 100 — The Top 100 Cloud Computing Vendors of 2011

Tuesday, March 29th, 2011 by ginger

March 28, 2011 — There are a lot of cloud computing vendors out there. A lot. Sifting through the who’s who can be torture for solution providers and their customers as they look to leverage the cloud. Whether the end result is to cut costs, boost agility, ease operational and maintenance headaches or to future… Read more ›

GigaOM: Data Science: Real-Time Big Data Use

Tuesday, March 29th, 2011 by ginger

March 23, 2011 — Leading a data science panel at GigaOM’s Structure Big Data conference, Joyent Founder and Chief Scientist Jason Hoffman redefined the concept of big data. Speaking with Chief Scientist Hilary Mason, Cloudscale Founder and CEO, Bill McColl, nPario President and CEO Bassel Ojjeh, he discussed what it means to be a practitioner… Read more ›

Why I/O Matters in the Cloud: A Joyent Webinar

Tuesday, March 29th, 2011 by ginger

On Thursday, March 31, 2011 at 10:00AM (PST) join James Duncan, Joyent’s Chief Architect, and Steve Tuck, GM of the Joyent Public Cloud for a discussion on common I/O issues. James and Steve will discuss real I/O problems that customers have encountered in the cloud, and introduce new features available in Joyent’s cloud software, SmartDataCenter… Read more ›

ComputerWorld: Big data to drive a surveillance society

Tuesday, March 29th, 2011 by ginger

March 24, 2011 — As real-time and batch analytics evolve using big data processing engines such as Hadoop, corporations will be able to track our activities, habits and locations with greater precision than ever thought. “It will change our existing notions of privacy. A surveillance society is not only inevitable, it’s worse. It’s irresistible,” said… Read more ›

Structure: Big Data Conference 2011

Monday, March 21st, 2011 by ginger

On Wednesday March 23, 2011 Jason Hoffman, Chief Scientist at Joyent, will be moderating two sessions at Structure’s Big Data 2011 in New York City this week. Big Data is a spin-off from GigaOM’s massively successful Structure conference. It is designed to get you up to speed on how to make money using the data… Read more ›