And you are here why?

InfoChimps  is offering cloud-based BigData platform to provide out-of-the-box (or is that out-of-the-cloud ?) Hadoop service.  Plenty of details at the link , as well as GigaOm commentary here . The new   Infochimps Platform   is essentially a publicly available version of what the company has built internally to process and analyze the data it stores within its marketplace. As Infochimps CEO Joe Kelly puts it, the company is “giving folks … the iPod to our iTunes.” Me, I think this is the start of something really good. The thing is, there is a ton of activity in the Hadoop space, with everybody and their brother tossing their hat into the ring providing some set of ancillary services based on Hadoop. The problem with all of these are that they presume you know what you are doing ! Needless to say, you don't. Really. You...Just...Don't. Let me be a bit clearer - the vast majority of people out there who could use Hadoop-based services fall i...

AT&T is getting into the OpenStack game - becoming a contributor, and also going after the general cloud-infrastructure space. (Yes, I know, they've been in the enterprise space w/ Synaptic ).  Thing is, in the bigger IaaS/PaaS space, its not just about whether you have the better Infrastructure or Platform, its also about mind-share, and what I'll call trust-share .  To be precise, (most) people trust Amazon/Heroku/Rackspace to not screw them over.  On the other hand, most people think of AT&T (and/or Verizon) as "Phone Companies" - with the concomitant baggage. Put it another way - if American / Delta / United announced that they were getting into the cloud-infrastructure space (humor me), I'd argue that most people would run screaming in the opposite direction, since the implicit assumption nowadays is that the airlines are in the fleece the passengers business. So, back to my original question - Do You Trust AT&T ? I'm not quite sure w...