By launching a big data cloud hosting platform alongside its marketplace, Infochimps is seeking to build on the importance of data locality.
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Cubby is built on LogMeIn's own cloud data sync and storage service - not hosted on a third party cloud data platform - and takes advantage of the same online-banking-level encryption capabilities used in LogMeIn's connectivity offerings (like LogMeIn Free and Pro, LogMeIn Rescue and join.me).
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Not every ISV shopping for a cloud data platform or Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) needs that scale, though.
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Cubby is the first service built on LogMeIn's very own cloud data sync and storage platform letting people turn any number of PC or Mac folders into 'cubbies' that can be accessed from other devices, stored in the cloud, and shared with colleagues and friends.
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Infochimps, already providing a cloud-based platform for data-science-as-a-service, announced the integration of Storm and Kafka.
First, HDS has what it calls an Infrastructure Cloud, which serves as a platform for data center convergence, including integrated data management.
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Mingsheng Hong is Chief Data Scientist at Hadapt, a Boston-based startup that offers an analytical platform that integrates structured and unstructured data in one cloud-optimized system.
In the spirit of open innovation, Google promises to make the Cloud Platform code, the Arduino sensor designs and the collected data available online after the conference.
In hybrid form, a private cloud can include data stored on premise or off, with a private Platform-as-a-Service middleware layer managing application data and enforcing data security.
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Google's Cloud Platform Developer Relations team is spearheading a project called the Data Sensing Lab, which utilizes a network of Arduino sensors to collect ambient data and translate it into easily understood visualizations.
These platform technologies will leverage advances in control systems and process engineering, big data and cloud computing, broadband communications, and cybersecurity.
Oracle recently made a lot of interesting announcements at the OpenWorld conference, including the launch of its cloud platform, Oracle Public Cloud, and the launch of its new Big Data and NoSQL offerings.
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Sure, cloud platform vendors will argue that their software, if run properly, isolates all user data and setting info from each other.
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