Data Governance Missions and the “Branches of Government”
This past week the U.S. media have been abuzz about President Obama’s first-day-in-office efforts to bring transparency to government. And…
Who cares about your data?
Image via Wikipedia JournalSpace, a blogging website which had been around for 6 years but failed recently when their server…
Surviving the downturn lesson #73431
Image by kris247 via Flickr While there have been hundreds of posts recently about how to stay positive and how…
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…
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…
Weny
Weny is a link shortner that is used to associate links with your twitter id. Links remain associated with you…
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…