SSD and DB usage
Image via Wikipedia Recently I have seen several articles about Solid State Drives (SSD) and some articles are picking 2009…
Web 2.0 Data Scalability
Image via Wikipedia In this previous post I wrote a section on Web 2.0 data platform scalability, in it I…
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…
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…
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…
New RockSolid product site
We have launched the new RockSolid product site here: http://www.redrock.net.au/RockSolid/
What is Hadoop?
Image via CrunchBase Ok so you are setting out to build the next Google and are considering using a Map/Reduce…
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…
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…
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…
