[July,16] Is Google's BigTable too private?

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SAN FRANCISCO--During a panel discussion at the Structure conference here Wednesday, various representatives from the cloud-computing world offered their views. Panelists included:

* Christophe Bisciglia, senior software engineer, Google
* Jason Hoffman, founder and chief technology officer, Joyent
* Tony Lucas, CEO, XCalibre Communications
* Lew Moorman, senior vice president of strategy and corporate development, Rackspace
* Geva Perry, chief marketing officer, GigaSpaces
* Joe Weinman, VP of Strategic Solutions at AT&T

The panelists agreed that there will be open and proprietary, as well as specialized, cloud platforms. The discussion got a little heated between Google's Bisciglia and Joyent's Hoffman on the subject of open platforms and Google's BigTable software for distributed data storage.

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