“We focus on solving a very specific problem in the cloud, which is the ability to guarantee performance to the high performance applications in a really large environment. The concert of performance management, inline efficiencies, and system automation – when you combine these three things together you get a powerful play in the cloud provider space,” states Jay Prassl, VP of Marketing at SolidFire, in this SYS-CON.TV interview with Cloud Expo Conference Chair Jeremy Geelan at the 9th Internat...| By Maureen O'Gara | Article Rating: |
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Microsoft added a trial version of Apache's open source Hadoop to its Windows Azure PaaS Monday as it said it would in October when it teamed up with Hortonworks, the Yahoo spin-off.
It gives Azure Big Data capabilities and advanced data analytics and a better shot at competing with rival clouds like Amazon's EC2 and Google's App Engine.
Users can build MapReduce jobs. Microsoft said a Hive ODBC Driver and Hive Add-in for Excel would enable data analysis of unstructured data through Excel and PowerPivot.
Would-be users have to submit a form and Microsoft will pick the testers it wants based on use cases. Microsoft gave no indication when the widgetry would be more than a preview.

It's part of an upgrade that includes SQL Azure Database tickles and simplified Azure billing and management.
The size of the database can now top out at 150GB, up from 50GB without costing more and it's supposedly easier to scale-out a "virtually unlimited" elastic database tier.
A downloadable SDK has JavaScript libraries and a run-time engine for the Node.JS framework, with support for hosting, storage and service bus.
It's for creating and scaling web apps that run on the Azure Windows Server.
The added language support means Microsoft wants Azure to appeal to developers beyond the .NET walled garden.
With the SDK Microsoft says Azure can integrate with other open source applications, including the Eclipse IDE (an updated plug-in), MongoDB and Solr/Lucene search engine. Access to Azure libraries for .NET, Java and Node.js is now available under an Apache 2 open-source license and hosted on GitHub.
The update offers a free 90-day trial and spending caps with views of real-time usage and billing details at Azure's new Metro-style Management Portal.
Pricing has been adjusted. The maximum price per SQL Azure DB is $499.95.The price per gigabyte of large SQL Azure databases has been cut 67% and data transfer prices in North America and Europe have been reduced by 25% to 12 cent a GB. Asia-Pacific data transfers that were 20 cents a GB are now 19 cents a GB, 5% cheaper.
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“The cloud adoption rate in 2012 will accelerate as people are moving real applications to the cloud. For Terremark for years the core customer has been enterprise IT organizations – we’ve always wanted to be the solution for these organizations that want to move to the cloud,” states Bill Lowry, Vice President, Cloud Services at Terremark, in this SYS-CON.TV interview with Cloud Expo Conference Chair Jeremy Geelan at the 9th International Cloud Expo, held Nov 7-10, 2011, at the Santa Clara Conv...
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SYS-CON Events announced today that SHI, a $4 billion+ global provider of information technology products and services, has been named Platinum Plus Sponsor of SYS-CON's 10th International Cloud Expo, which will take place on June 11–14, 2012, at the Javits Center in New York City, New York.
Founded in 1989, SHI International Corp. is a global provider of technology products and services. Driven by the industry's most experienced and stable sales force and backed by software volume licensing ex...
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Cloud Exp...
“What happens on day two when you’ve got your cloud going? Day two is when the IT department says ‘I have to run this?’,” notes Kent Erickson, Vice President Product Management at Zenoss, in this SYS-CON.TV interview with Cloud Expo Conference Chair Jeremy Geelan at the 9th International Cloud Expo, held Nov 7-10, 2011, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA. “When you’re running a cloud infrastructure you have to be worried about the tenants, the customers in the cloud.”
Cloud...
“We just came to market a few months ago with iON, which is our cloud platform – it’s a cloud platform as a service that provides integration platform services. There are several different flavors of PaaS and iON is an integration platform, and iPaaS,” notes Greg Schott, President and CEO of MuleSoft, in this SYS-CON.TV interview with Cloud Expo Conference Chair Jeremy Geelan at the 9th International Cloud Expo, held Nov 7-10, 2011, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA.
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Cloud Expo New York, June 11–14, 2012, at the Javits Center...
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