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Author: Markus Perdrizat

  • Red Hat Acquires ManageIQ To Beef Up Hybrid Cloud Capabilities

    Red Hat Acquires ManageIQ To Beef Up Hybrid Cloud Capabilities: Red Hat today acquired ManageIQ for its IT management software. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. ManageIQ is in the data center automation and virtualization business. ManageIQ getting acquired was just a matter of time… although I didn’t contemplate as much who it’d be…

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  • Amazon Is Ripe For Disruption

    Amazon Is Ripe For Disruption: Amazon, the great disintermediator that put a spanner — in fact, a set of 25 spanners in a handy case, yours for just $9.99 — in the businesses of many a retailer, is going to face exactly the same fate if it doesn’t start to address its weaknesses soon, particularly…

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  • Impala: Cloudera makes SQL a first-class citizen in Hadoop

    Cloudera makes SQL a first-class citizen in Hadoop: Not content to watch its competitors leave it in the dust, veteran big data startup Cloudera is fundamentally changing the face of its flagship Hadoop distribution into something much more appealing. Monash also writes about it: Quick notes on Impala and More on Cloudera Impala.

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  • The Elegant Email

    The Elegant Email: For me, the amount of email that arrives is inversely proportionate to my amount of free time. This means the less time I have to read mail, the more mail that arrives. Greater minds than mine have attempted to tackle this unfortunate time management situation, so I’m going to keep it simple.…

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  • Status Symbols: Palm V

    Status Symbols: Palm V: Status Symbols are devices that transcend their specs and features, and become something beautiful and luxurious in their own right. They’re things that live on after the megapixel and megahertz wars move past them, beacons of timeless design and innovation. I loved my Palm, and also my Psion before that. Don’t…

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  • Offline: avatars and alts

    Offline: avatars and alts: In Neuromancer, Snow Crash, Johnny Mnemonic, Hackers, and just about every other chilling pseudo-cyberpunk vision of the future, there are two worlds. One is physical, where Real Death is possible, and where you choke on the pollution of New Tokyo-Beijing or whatever. The other world is virtual. […] Cyberpunk always presents…

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  • Display Myths Shattered: How Monitor & HDTV Companies Cook Their Specs

    Display Myths Shattered: How Monitor & HDTV Companies Cook Their Specs: Take everything you think you know about displays and throw it out the window. It’s time for a clinic on what display specs really mean—brace yourself for the alarming truth Vision is our most amazing and complex sense, so it’s no surprise that display…

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  • Escape From Message Hell

    Escape From Message Hell: […] companies now have an opportunity to provide the ultimate authentic messaging, namely information we choose to send ourselves. By shifting the delivery of the message to the most appropriate time and place, where it is most likely to be acted upon, new technologies will become indispensable solutions we can’t imagine…

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  • Def Con XX: twenty years of hacker evolution

    Def Con XX: twenty years of hacker evolution: Twenty years ago, the world of consumer technology was a very different place. In the early 1990’s, cell phones were still expensive devices slowly making their way out of Gordon Gekko’s high-rise office and into the hands of well-heeled customers like, for example, Zach Morris. Ah the…

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  • The keys to Oracle…

    The keys to Oracle…: This is a question I get on asktom frequently – what are the things I need to know, what do I have to do to become expert, where is the list of key things I need to do with regards to Oracle. It is a hard sounding question that has an…

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