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IBM announced new offering in Cloud http://www.ibm.com/software/data/infosphere/hadoop/

The comments from CNet:

• IBM chooses Hadoop to analyze big data
• IBM BigSheets to preserve fleeting Web data

tags: linux bi opensource hadoop cloud big apache infosphere data biginsights

Facebook, Joyent and Sun have partnered to provide free scalable, on-demand infrastructure from Joyent to Facebook developers. Joyent’s Accelerator on-demand infrastructure (peered with Facebook’s datacenter!) provides the very best load balancers, routing and switching fabric, x86 servers and storage from Sun. Facebook developers can take advantage of Joyent Accelerators to quickly launch Facebook applications capable of scaling to millions of users. All for free.

What’s Included?

A Joyent Facebook Developer Accelerator includes everything you need to develop and deploy your Facebook application. You get root access to a virtualized machine that includes all the tools for developing Facebook applications in PHP, Rails, and Python.

Note: We do not currently support Windows, and do not plan to do so in the foreseeable future.

How it works?

Source > http://refresh.gigaom.com/…defogging-cloud-computing-a-taxonomy/

• Applications in the cloud (Salesforce and other SaaS vendors exist here today) provide turnkey end-user software, normally browser-based, with a specific functional focus. They are the easiest to start ‘consuming,’ but also the least flexible. They grow out of the ASP world of the late ‘90s and encompass the SaaS offerings of today.
• Platforms in the cloud (Google’s AppEngine, Mosso, Heroku are good examples) offer turnkey environments into which a developer can plug in code written within certain guidelines or restrictions (programming language, data-store model, etc.), and scaling is performed “behind the curtains” by the platform.
• Infrastructure in the cloud (Amazon Web Services, Flexiscale, and others) is the most flexible offering, providing compute and storage resources in a primitive, close-to-bare-metal API interface, that can be leveraged in a multitude of ways with few restrictions – but which also require more up-front work to design and implement. This is where our company RightScale focuses – we offer a cloud management platform for low-level ‘infrastructure in the cloud’ resources that preserves flexibility and power, while offering quick deployment and easy management.