ReBlog: On Why I Don’t Like Auto-Scaling in the Cloud
George Reese posted the following on the O'Reilly Blog "I enter into sales meetings getting clients excited about dynamic scaling…
Kickfire: Data Analytics for the Masses
You may not realize it, but the data analytics market is buzzing. There are new vendors emerging, new products popping…
What is Hadoop?
Image via CrunchBase Ok so you are setting out to build the next Google and are considering using a Map/Reduce…
Why PC’s still suck
Image via Wikipedia Yesterday afternoon I was showing my son some funny songs he liked on YouTube. The last one…
SSD and DB usage
Image via Wikipedia Recently I have seen several articles about Solid State Drives (SSD) and some articles are picking 2009…
Australian National Broadband Roll Out
As data analytics transforms modern business operations, acquiring an established company has become an increasingly strategic move for growth-focused entrepreneurs.…
My definition of a Cloud service
Image by akakumo via Flickr There has been some debate on a few sites the last couple of days about…
Twitter @ddata Discuss Data bot
Image via CrunchBase If you use twitter then this may be interesting, I have launched a twitter based “Discuss Data”…
Is love for Twitter blind?
Image via CrunchBase Oh Twitter, Twitter, Twitter. In almost every respect Twitter has been a perfect example of how not…