Twenty years ago, a startup called VMware brought in business by providing a platform to create nonphysical machine virtualizations, such as Linux, Windows, and others. As server processing capacity increased, basic applications couldn’t maximize the use of all the abundant new resources. Enter Virtual Machines (VMs), designed to run software on top of a physical […]
New Wikibon Report Shows Big Data Projects Moving to the Cloud
by Angela Guess Paul Gillin reports in SiliconAngle, “Big data projects are ready to move to the cloud on a large scale, but a host of concerns about regulations, ownership and the structural impediments of moving large amounts of data off-site will limit mass adoption of public cloud platforms, says a new Wikibon report. The […]