“The Cloud Isn’t Just For Storing Tweets”

I love the title above.  I saw it in a great article by Derrick Harris in GigaOM where he talks to Amazon Web Services Chief Data Scientist Matt Wood about the symbiotic nature of big data and cloud computing.   While Justin Bieber may disagree, those of us in IT know that the implications of Software-as-a-Service, [...]

AWS re:Invent — Big Data and HPC in the Cloud

Right before Silver Peak released its own solution for Amazon Web Services on Dec 3rd, I had the chance to go to Las Vegas to attend AWS re:Invent — the first global partner and customer conference for AWS users. During the three day event there were many new product launches, customer success story talks, technical [...]