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…
Apple, DRM & Content Protection
Image via CrunchBase The music industries decision to do away with DRM, which has lead to Apple’s ability to offer…
RockSolid Cloud Services Edition
Today we have announced our Cloud Services Edition of RockSolid. This edition is specifically targeted to organizations that provide SQL…
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…
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.…
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…
2009: Products I Can’t Live Without
Inspired by TechCrunch I have put together my own “can’t do without” list as we head into 2009. This of…
SSD and DB usage
Image via Wikipedia Recently I have seen several articles about Solid State Drives (SSD) and some articles are picking 2009…
What is Hadoop?
Image via CrunchBase Ok so you are setting out to build the next Google and are considering using a Map/Reduce…
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…

