Author: Markus Perdrizat

• Inside IBM’s $67 billion SAGE, the largest computer ever built

  Big Data in 1957… Inside IBM’s $67 billion SAGE, the largest computer ever built

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  Apr 15, 2013

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• Hekaton Breaks Through

  History and Background of MS’ IMDB Hekaton Hekaton Breaks Through

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  Markus Perdrizat

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  Apr 15, 2013

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• It’s not a web app. It’s an app that you install from the web

  Tips for web apps developers from forecast.io guys It’s not a web app. It’s an app that you install from the web

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  Markus Perdrizat

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  Apr 15, 2013

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• Unfazed By Bitcoin’s Wild Swings And Mysterious Origins, Silicon Valley VCs Place Their Bets

  Unfazed By Bitcoin’s Wild Swings And Mysterious Origins, Silicon Valley VCs Place Their Bets: Bitcoin’s record highs and the ensuring surge in hacking attempts and thefts may be grabbing headlines. However, beneath the chaos, Silicon Valley’s best-known venture firms are finally starting to make real bets around the crypto-currency. Much better than betting in Bitcoins…

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  Markus Perdrizat

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  Apr 15, 2013

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• IBM ponies up $1B to add flash to more products and speed up big data

  IBM ponies up $1B to add flash to more products and speed up big data: IBM said Thursday it would spend $1 billion to support flash storage in more of its products and open 12 facilities worldwide to show enterprises what a difference flash can make. It also unveiled its new FlashSystems line of flash-storage…

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  Markus Perdrizat

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  Apr 14, 2013

  Technology
• How Dave Goldberg of SurveyMonkey Built a Billion-Dollar Business and Still Gets Home By 5:30 PM

  How Dave Goldberg of SurveyMonkey Built a Billion-Dollar Business and Still Gets Home By 5:30 PM: Meetings. Who Needs ‘Em? Partly in reaction to his experience at Yahoo!, Goldberg only attends “two and a half” regular scheduled meetings every week. Goldberg said, “I’m probably more anti-meeting than most people in my job. It’s just in…

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  Apr 14, 2013

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• The Quiet Revolution in Programming

  The Quiet Revolution in Programming: during the last 24 months, the sheer volume of change in the computing paradigm has been so great that programming has felt its imprint right away. Multiple programming paradigms are changing simultaneously: the ubiquity of mobile apps; the enormous rise of HTML and JavaScript front-ends; and the advent of big…

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  Markus Perdrizat

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  Apr 12, 2013

  Technology
• The Most Common Leadership Model – And Why It’s Broken

  The Most Common Leadership Model – And Why It’s Broken: When organizations’ hire, develop, and promote leaders using a competency-based model, they’re unwittingly incubating failure. Nothing fractures corporate culture faster, and eviscerates talent development efforts more rapidly, than rewarding the wrong people for the wrong reasons. Don’t reward technical competency – reward aggregate contribution. Another…

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  Apr 12, 2013

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• Dataguise Presents 10 Best Practices for Securing Sensitive Data in Hadoop

  Dataguise Presents 10 Best Practices for Securing Sensitive Data in Hadoop. Yeah, you gotta hop over to read it at myNoSQL…

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  Markus Perdrizat

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  Apr 12, 2013

  Technology
• Role of Positivity in Risk Management Communication

  Role of Positivity in Risk Managerment Communication: What is the cause of the stormy relationship [between Risk and Business]? Criticism and negative feedback! No one likes it, so why blame the business managers. What if risk managers change the approach? With the criticism they give a lot of positive reinforcement? Will the behavior of business managers change?…

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  Apr 11, 2013

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