Krisandra Russo

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)

Christophe Bisciglia Will Discuss Technical and Business Issues of Hadoop at Cloud Computing Expo

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)

Vizioncore Named Bronze Sponsor of 4th Virtualization Conference & Expo

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 Launch Cloud Computing Software in Africa

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 Topic Launched

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)