Twitter On Ulitzer
When Google's Gmail is down, thousands complain on Twitter. If Amazon has
problems with its cloud services, you hear about it on Twitter. If a web
hosting company has issues, you hear about it on Twitter. Twitter has given
consumers a voice, and companies are listening.
In other words, Twitter has become a discovery engine for service issues. But
only if people effectively let the world know about those issues in the first
place.
Pingdom, a service that monitors the reliability of websites and services on
the Internet, has now made it possible to automate this process. Pingdom
users can choose to automatically send Twitter status messages when their
monitored sites have downtime, notifying not just themselves, but the world.
"Using social media such a... (more)
Cloud Computing Expo on Ulitzer
Many in the industry have heard of Hadoop, and in his session at Cloud
Computing Conference & Expo, Christophe Bisciglia, Co-Founder of Cloudera,
gets a little deeper. Hadoop is based on the same methods Google uses to
store and process petabytes of data, but thanks to contributions from many in
the open source community you can leverage these same methods... (more)
Virtualization Expo on Ulitzer
SYS-CON Events announced today that Vizioncore, an industry leader which is
helping thousands of organizations maximize their ROI from their investments
in virtualization, named "Bronze Sponsor" of SYS-CON's 7th International
Virtualization Conference & Expo colocated with the 4th International Cloud
Computing Conference & Expo, which will take place on Nove... (more)
IBM and Canonical are introducing a new, flexible personal computing software
package for netbooks and other thin client devices to help businesses in
Africa bridge the digital divide by leapfrogging traditional PCs and
proprietary software. This is the first cloud- and premise-based Linux
netbook software package offered by IBM and Canonical.
Part of IBM's Smart Work Initiative, the new ... (more)
Zimbra on Ulitzer news topic launched today to cover breaking news, blogs and
opinion pieces on Zimbra.
Zimbra is open source server software for email and collaboration - email,
group calendar, contacts, instant messaging, file storage and web document
management. The Zimbra email and calendar server is available for Linux, Mac
OS X and virtualization platforms. Zimbra syncs to smartphon... (more)