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Time to check the Web for some definitions: Big Data: a massive volume of both structured and unstructured data that is so large that it’s difficult to process using traditional

There has been quite a buzz over the last year surrounding the Cloud Service-Level Agreement (SLA). What should be in one, whether uptime is the central priority for an SLA,

I was recently reading the news of the Apache Foundation’s recent release of NoSQL database Cassandra version 1.2, and I ran across a description of the Cassandra Query Language (CQL),

Just how big are Big Data anyway? There’s no fixed answer. In fact, Wikipedia for one defines Big Data as a “collection of data sets so large and complex that

Sometimes we spend so much of our day on the hot topics of IT — Cloud, Mobile, Big Data, and Social Media, to name some biggies — that we lose

One of the benefits of Cloud Computing that makes Clouds “Cloudy” is the location independence of its resources. When you provision a Cloud instance, you need not know or care

Anybody who has worked with WSDL-based Web Services knows that the loose coupling they promised was a challenge to achieve. One silver lining around this cloud big-vendor SOA was the

Anybody with even a vague understanding of Cloud Computing knows it comes in three basic flavors: Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS), Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS), and Software-as-a-Service (SaaS). If you press a general audience to

Encryption is our primary tool for providing data confidentiality, an essential requirement for many Cloud Computing applications. However, as I discussed in the previous blog post, encryption is not a