Home Cloud Roundup for January 25, 2012

Cloud Roundup for January 25, 2012

FireHost is expanding and offering European services, Dell is letting its customers have Linux their way, and EnterpriseDB wants to “cloudify” PostgreSQL.

FireHost’s European-Based Secure Cloud Hosting Services Go Live – FireHost has announced an expansion into Europe, with services through data centers in London and Amsterdam.

Microsoft’s plan for Hadoop and big data – Edd Dumbill looks into Microsoft’s plan for Hadoop. “One of the most interesting features of Microsoft’s work with Hadoop is the addition of a JavaScript API. Working with Hadoop at a programmatic level can be tedious: this is why higher-level languages such as Pig emerged.”

Dell OEM Solutions Makes Available SUSE Linux Enterprise Server to Customers – Now it’s possible to get Dell servers preloaded with images built using SUSE Studio. Would be interesting to know just how many SUSE Studio images are actually being used in production. It’s a very slick tool for creating custom Linux distributions based on SUSE or openSUSE.

Postgres Plus Cloud Database – EnterpriseDB is launching a “cloudified” version of PostgreSQL that runs on top of Amazon EC2. The company is offering stock PostgreSQL or its “Postgres Plus Advanced Server with Oracle database compatibility features.” Pricing starts at $0.11 an hour on EC2.

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