CAMBRIDGE, MA–(Marketwire – Mar 25, 2013) – ProfitBricks, the infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) company that completely reengineered the delivery of cloud computing, today announced that Pete Johnson, senior director of platform evangelism at ProfitBricks, will present at the Game Developers Conference (GDC) on March 27 at 5 p.m. Johnson will discuss how ProfitBricks’ Cloud Computing 2.0 solution [...]

GigaOm’s Structure Data conference (Twitter hashtag #dataconf) wrapped up in New York City today and had a very eclectic tone to its second day compared to its first.  Yesterday the big message was that, while Big Data in general and Hadoop specifically are awesome, we still need human common sense to guide queries and even then we [...]

ProfitBricks sent a contingent to the GigaOM Structure Data conference in New York City this week (#dataconf on Twitter) and the first day was full of great ideas.  The most entertaining speaker of the day was Gus Hunt, CTO of the CIA (who knew?) but more on that in a bit. The running theme of [...]

Two of the most influencial conferences on the Spring 2013 event calendar happen over the next couple of weeks: Game Developers Conference, March 27-29, at the Moscone Convention Center in San Francisco Cloud Connect Silicon Valley, April 2-5, at the Santa Clara (CA) Convention Center ProfitBricks will be exhibiting at both events and is pleased to [...]

For me, and for a lot of people learning about Big Data and the distributed problem solving model it utilizes, the crawl before you learn to walk (let alone run) is getting Hadoop to work in it’s simplest possible configuration.  From that solid base, you can move on to solving more complex problems. As open [...]

Thanks to all of you who joined us for yesterday’s Cloud Connect/UBM-produced webinar with our own Pete Johnson, Cloud Platform Evangelist, and Joe Weinman, author of Cloudonomics. Also, for those people who registered though ProfitBricks, we are packing up and shipping copies of Joe Weinman’s Cloudonomics to 5 lucky attendees. For those of you that [...]