Archive for February, 2014
Monday, February 24th, 2014
Demand for Linux Skills Rises with Cloud Computing
Demand for people with Linux skills is increasing, a trend that appears to follow a shift in server sales. Cloud infrastructure, including Amazon Web Service, is largely Linux based, and cloud services’ overall growth is increasing Linux server deployments. As many as 30% of all servers shipped this year will be cloud services providers, according […]
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Friday, February 21st, 2014
Facebook’s acquisition of WhatsApp: Why Indians are not in the big idea space?
“Indians prefer to be in the services sector and would not want to get into experimenting on products business, which is a high-risk, high-reward proposition,” says Prakash Advani, Regional Manager, Asia Pacific, Canonical. ‘It all depends upon the DNA. If you need to be in the space, you need to have the mindset of taking […]
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Thursday, February 20th, 2014
GoGrid Wants to be Open Source Option to Amazon’s Cloud Databases
GoGrid CEO John Keagy says if an organization wants to use a true open source database, like MongoDB, Basho’s Riak, Hadoop or Cassandra, Amazon is not the place to go. “We want to be an open source alternative,” he says. “If you’re not worried about lock-in then use (AWS). If you’re an enterprise that wants […]
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Wednesday, February 19th, 2014
Andy Rubin Offered Android to Samsung First; And They Laughed Just Two Weeks Before Google Snapped Android Up
Interesting tidbits: Rubin recounted his first meeting with Samsung’s executives by saying “You and what army are going to go and create this? You have six people. Are you high?’ is basically what they said. They laughed me out of the boardroom. This happened two weeks before Google acquired us.† Considering that there were actually […]
