Cloud Computing Strategies for the CIOHardware makers should prepare for growth in the amount of bottom-of-the-line, commodity-level pizza box servers they sell to service providers, according to new research from IDC. Server sales to public cloud providers will be $718 million a year by 2014, up from $518 million in 2009. Other highlights from the research say that public cloud will not be the dominant trend in the enterprise; IT organizations will look to 'cloud-ify' their own data centers first. The private cloud server market will go from $2.6 billion to $5.7 billion, IDC reports.
Pie charts in the cloud
Objectivity Software and GoGrid have launched what might be a data geek's dream, InfiniteGraph. The new service, free to some developers and "qualified startups," takes loads of data and presents it in quick-change graphic form. Upload a moldy old customer database, for instance, and InfiniteGraph will let you point and click and play with it until you see something that you might have missed before.
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server images apparently operate on a distributed-architecture model, something like a massively multi-parallel (MPP) database, and are available on GoGrid for free to the anointed. Objectivity says that developers can try it for two months and a startup must have less than $1 million in revenues to qualify, but don't get too excited: the software is free, but GoGrid's platform fees still apply.
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