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Cloudera’s Olson Says Data Will Transform Industry

maol — Fri, 25 Mar 2011 23:31:54 +0000

Great Bloomberg interview with Cloudera CEO Mike Olson on open source and big data.

Oracle Database Firewall

maol — Fri, 18 Mar 2011 11:17:09 +0000

Oracle recently released it’s Oracle Database Firewall.

[The] release of Oracle Database Firewall is the culmination of the company’s acquisition of database security vendor Secerno last year. The product creates a defensive perimeter around databases by looking at SQL statements sent to the database through the wire to determine whether to pass, log, alert, block, or substitute SQL statements based on an organization’s policies. Users can set whitelist or blacklist policies to control the product, which is designed to work not only with Oracle databases, but also other major platforms, such as DB2, SQL Server and Sybase platforms.

As usual, they claim it’s going to replace all competitor’s remotely similar products, which is now causing quite a controversy among them, nicely summarized by Pete Finnigan in Oracle Database Firewall Controversy.

SQL Azure Year in Review

maol — Mon, 10 Jan 2011 05:44:56 +0000

A quick one today: SQL Azure – The Year in Review, mostly because of it’s good pointers to more SQL Azure resources.

Time Off

maol — Sun, 19 Dec 2010 22:57:22 +0000

Just a quick update because you may have noticed that I’m not posting as frequently as I’d like to – this is because I started playing Assassin’s Creed 2, and I’m still not through yet. And of course it doesn’t help if you stumble across the giant Boingboing joke thread… read here for one that reminds me of stories I’ve been through with my wife

Analytics Pissing Contest

maol — Thu, 11 Nov 2010 05:44:54 +0000

Aster Data Founder Mayank Bawa is engaging in an analytics pissing contest with Vertica in Sessionize with Style? …Or How a column-only, SQL-only database and lack of MapReduce, will cramp your style!, all that about a mini-series of Vertica blogs, where a Vertica engineer was pointing out perceived flaws of Aster and Teradata. Let’s sit back and watch!

Protected: Perdrizat Family Blog

maol — Mon, 28 Jun 2010 12:00:40 +0000

Blog Changes

maol — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 07:26:40 +0000

You’ve probably seen a flurry of updates today – that’s because I’ve loaded the most recent posts of another blog I started writing behind a firewall, and I thought I’d share those with you as well.

Oh, and did you notice the new name of the blog, and that the blog language is back to English? Yes it’s true, and it’ll stay that way.

M-A-O-L will focus on (Database) technologies and maybe a little bit of social web stuff. More private posts will be posted in a new blog for friends and family – to be announced when it’s ready.

Der Erzdämon ist besiegt

maol — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 21:52:45 +0000

Wieso ist es gut, dass mein Vaterschaftsurlaub jetzt vorbei ist?

Der richtige 10. Geburtstag

maol — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 08:00:39 +0000

Was feiert dieses Blog heute? (Und nicht letztes Jahr!)

Zehnter Geburtstag

maol — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 09:50:43 +0000

Was feiert maol Jeopardy! heute?

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