by Robin Harris | Sunday, February 14, 2010 | Future Tech |
The USENIX conference on File And Storage Technologies is in San Jose, Feb. 23-26. Here’s the blurb: FAST ’10 brings together storage system researchers and practitioners to explore new directions in the design, implementation, evaluation, and deployment...
by Robin Harris | Monday, February 8, 2010 | Cloud computing & storage, Clusters, Information Management |
MapReduce and its open source version, Hadoop, are parallel data analysis tools. A few lines of code can drive massive data reductions across thousands of nodes. Cool. Powerful though it is, Hadoop isn’t a database. Classic structured data analysis of the...
by Robin Harris | Friday, February 5, 2010 | Architecture, Cloud computing & storage, Enterprise, Future Tech |
James Hamilton, Amazon architect and a very smart guy, recently blogged about private clouds. In Private Clouds Are Not The Future he argues that economies of scale make public clouds much more efficient than private clouds. I think we agree that several effects make...
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