News, analysis and context on enterprise technology for the CTO
In January, the CTOvision team covered many exciting developments in disruptive technology. As always, we focused on the most important trends for CTOs and the federal government such as Big Data, cloud computing, and mobile. We also looked at success stories and predicted future technology developments. For the first time this month provided a way to consume CTOvision on your mobile device through Google Currents by clicking this link in your mobile … [Read more...]
We have previously provided a Quickstart guide to standing up Rackspace cloud servers (and have one for Amazon servers as well). These are very low cost ways of building reliable, production ready capabilities for enterprise use (commercial and government). And Bryan Halfpap has provided a Quickstart guide which shows you how to build a Hadoop Cluster (leveraging Cloudera's CDH3). Using Bryan's guide you can have a Hadoop Cluster up and running in … [Read more...]
Rackspace is a growing cloud computing capability provider that differentiates themselves by what they call "Fanatical Support." We try not to dwell too long on the marketing slogans of firms but have first-hand experience with Rackspace and can tell you their support is really really different. It must be the culture, but every support experience has left me convinced they are a great company to do business with. We host several sites at … [Read more...]