Cooladata – Consumerization of Big Data and Online User Behavior

Cooladata logoLast week CoolaData guys announced their platform general availability. The following post is based on few discussions I had with the company founders.
In his 20 years of experience working in the field of data analysis, Guy Greenberg, a co-founder of CoolaData, came to realize that there is no simple way to work out a Big Data without turning to professional services and integrating several systems. For instance, one might need to incorporate Hadoop with ETL and visualization tools.
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DevOps – Offices Discouraged

devops[G u e s t   P o s t] Every company, technological ones in particular, is faced with a long list of challenges concerning productive work environments. For starters, traditional concepts of hiring local talents, which may or may not exist, and having all employees work together in the same office space have proven, over the years, to bring about a number of interruptions and fairly unproductive work environments. What is lacking is focus.

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OpenStack: A Community Torn Apart – Freedland, Bias and Scoble

The OpenStack Battle - taken from Freedland Presentation
The OpenStack Battle – taken from Freedland’s Presentation

Last month, I attended the OpenStack summit in Tel Aviv.  This was yet another great event brought to us by the brilliant Gigaspaces team (especially @shar1z) headed by one of the most important cloud evangelists in Israel and the world, @natishalom.

OpenStack aims to provide the ubiquitous open source cloud computing platform for public and private clouds. Wikipedia

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Cloud Model 2014: Hybrid, Google, Brokerage, Startups and The Enterprise

I am OnDemand Predictions2013 has been incredibly eventful for the cloud industry, mostly for making itself an eminent presence in the mainstream IT market. Businesses of all sizes have made their ways to the cloud, confirming my 2013 predictions. Government agencies worldwide take the cloud seriously, as demonstrated by the CIA’s contract switch over to Amazon from IBM. AWS has proven its rapid pace of innovation and has introduced great leaders who have completely replaced the concept of sluggish IT servers with instances. While the market is still small, I believe it will take over the IT market sooner than some of us think. I am not alone in my forecast… another analyst predicted that AWS will become a $50B business in 2015, which means it will multiply 12 times its size from last year. So, have a look at my 2013 predictions and read on to see what 2014 has in store for the world of cloud computing. (more…)

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DataDog at AWS re:Invent 2013

DataDog at AWS re:Invent 2013

Legacy Monitoring Hates Elastic Workloads: DataDog here to Support that Datadog does monitoring as a service, with a number of customers that are finding that traditional tools do not offer…

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Porticor at AWS re:Invent 2013

Porticor at AWS re:Invent 2013

Porticor: Data Encryption in Public Cloud Porticor provides key management and data protection – for customers who need to provide encryption both at rest and in motion, using IPSEC. Key…

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Scalr at AWS re:Invent 2013

Scalr at AWS re:Invent 2013

Scalr Cloud Management: Give AWS DevOps Cloud Freedom and Control IT needs to enforce policies for security reasons, but developers want the freedom and agility of Amazon. Scalr provides the…

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Cloud Velocity at AWS re:Invent 2013

Cloud Velocity at AWS re:Invent 2013

Cloud Velocity: Making Intelligent Migration Automation Choices AWS users and enterprise customers have identified top concerns as migration and the integration of existing resources – classic hybrid clouds. Cloud Velocity…

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