At the Dell Conference held in Austin, Texas, the company officially released a technical preview of its OpenStack based private Cloud, named Cloud Dedicated. On 11th ofDecember, 2012 Dell provided the companies a sneak peak of its OpenStack based private Cloud, propagating on its large enterprise grade security and compliancy features. The company does not limit itself to open-source for Cloud infrastructure, however, Cloud Dedicated is a private cloud built on VMware. The company claimed that its revenue for the third quarter of the fiscal year has increased by 30 percent. Dell’s foray into the OpenStack came …
Cloudant Collaborates with Rackspace to Expand their Global Reach
Cloudant proclaimed of their joining with Cloud Tools program for Rackspace Hosting on December 13, 2012. The company took its first step towards making the NoSQL database service omnipresent by integrating the Rackspace Cloud with the platform it supports. The company already operates on Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, SoftLayer infrastructure, Joyent, etc. The collaboration between Rackspace and Cloudant will give their customers more option. The developers utilizing Rackspace open Cloud will benefit from this merger, as the application data layer can be scaled up or down depending on the demand and through a simple management interface. …
Gartner Reports Popularity of Cloud Based Business Intelligence
This year’s Gartner report on Hype Cycle of Business Intelligence in comparison with last year’s cycle has led to the conclusion about the progressive development of trends in Cloud based Business Intelligence (BI). This hype cycle had added Mobile BI along with the data management architecture and information capabilities framework. However, both the new hype cycles included in the report, mirrored the same struggle of businesses with analytics and BI. The conflict lay in the effective management of data and in creating consistency across the enterprise. We are still in the early stage of implementing Cloud based …
