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Author: Markus Perdrizat

  • What is DSSD building?

    What is DSSD building?: The brains behind the ZFS filesystem – including Jeff Bonwick and Bill Moore – have been hard at work for several years at start up DSSD. What are they doing with Andy Bechtolsheim’s money? Interesting speculation based on patents that they filed…

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  • Don’t blame security breaches on open source technology – the problem is lack of oversight

    Don’t blame security breaches on open source technology – the problem is lack of oversight: A hacker attack recently shut down the ad service OnRamp completely. In an official statement posted on its forums a few weeks ago, OpenX, the parent company of OnRamp, questioned the security of open source technology. Another one about how to deal with…

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  • Prismatic’s Bradford Cross: First we understand media, then the world

    Prismatic’s Bradford Cross: First we understand media, then the world: Prismatic co-founder and CEO Bradford Cross doesn’t have big dreams — he just wants to revolutionize the way that we consume media, and then after that he wants to bring his brand of data-powered artificial intelligence to every other form of consumer behavior. I’m still…

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  • Hadoop and Splunk Use cases

    Hadoop and Splunk Use cases: The Splunk and Hadoop communities can benefit from each other’s strengths. Below are several examples of customers that use both environments. Splunk is a primary tool used by this company for making use of big data and gaining real-time operational intelligence from their infrastructure. Every vendor should have such a…

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  • What Coke Contains

    What Coke Contains: The Vons grocery store two miles from my home in Los Angeles, California sells 12 cans of Coca-Cola for $6.59 — 54 cents each. The tool chain that created this simple product is incomprehensibly complex Well written – hope he writes more like that.

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  • If the developers can’t self-service everything they need programmatically through an API, it’s not a private cloud.

    If the developers can’t self-service everything they need programmatically through an API, it’s not a private cloud.

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  • Immersive 3D Holoscopic Video System

    Immersive 3D Holoscopic Video System: Although researchers have proposed several autostereoscopic displays, the resolution and viewing position is still limited. Furthermore, stereo and multiview technologies rely on the brain to fuse the two disparate images to create the 3D effect. As a result, such systems tend to cause eye strain, fatigue, and headaches after prolonged…

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  • DBSeer: Making Database Cloud Computing more Efficient

    Making cloud computing more efficient: For database-driven applications, new software could reduce hardware requirements by 95 percent while actually improving performance. DBSeer – an open source machine learning algorithm to improve DB performance in VMs, being developed at the MIT.

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  • Tableau Veers from the Path

    Tableau Veers from the Path: I’ve seen it happen many times, but it never ceases to sadden me. An organization starts off with a clear vision and an impervious commitment to excellence, but as it grows, the vision blurs and excellence gets diluted through a series of compromises. A case of disappointed fanboi?

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  • A second spring of cleaning

    A second spring of cleaning: We’re living in a new kind of computing environment. Everyone has a device, sometimes multiple devices. It’s been a long time since we have had this rate of change—it probably hasn’t happened since the birth of personal computing 40 years ago. Thus begins the n-th Google spring cleaning blog post,…

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