Google has lost its appeal to keep a potentially damaging email away from the jury in the company’s legal fight with Oracle over Java. Judge William Alsup, who is hearing the case, on Thursday upheld an earlier ruling that the email should remain part of the court record. The email, written by a Google engineer,…
Category: Cloud computing
RAMCloud: When Disks and Flash Memory are Just Too Slow
As storage customers look for a way off the spinning disk merry-go-round, SSDs have become the hottest gadgets in the enterprise. But a team of computer scientists at Stanford University think they can do even better. The researchers have come up with a scalable, high performance storage approach dubbed RAMCloud — RAM because it stores…
Equinix Marketplace Seeks to Connect Customers
By: Rich MillerOctober 24th, 2011 Tweet When carriers and Internet companies go looking for business partners, sometimes they need look no further than the cabinets sitting beside them in the data center. This potential is seen in the Internet itself, which is made possible by physical linkages between networks. But it’s hard to form a…
Live ‘Private Cloud’ Sighted in New Jersey Rock Quarry
NYSE Technologies has launched a cloud. And it looks nothing like this (Photo: karindalziel/Flickr) “We created a hybrid,” says NYSE Technologies CEO Stanley Young. “It’s a cross between the public cloud and the private cloud.”
Small business latches onto cloud computing
With all the words written about cloud computing this year, one wonders why Rob Livingstone wrote a book on the topic, with the title Navigating through the cloud. Essentially, Livingstone says it’s because he could not buy a book that allows individuals and organisations alike to make an objective and well-informed assessment of the value…
Study shows major shift to cloud computing in manufacturing
Cloud computing technology will be the main driver of manufacturing IT productivity in the coming decade, a new report from IDC Manufacturing Insights claims. And manufacturers appear to be well on their way, adopting cloud computing technology slightly faster than other industries: 23% are already running cloud technology and another 44% are implementing it or…