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…
SSD and DB usage
Image via Wikipedia Recently I have seen several articles about Solid State Drives (SSD) and some articles are picking 2009…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Web 2.0 – Ensuring Your Data is the Asset
Image via Wikipedia For the purpose of this article “A Data Platform” is what I use to describe an implementation…
Silicon Kelly
Silicon Kelly is a community of companies that are working together to raise the profile of the bustling technology sector…