Category: Technology
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EMC to Hadoop competition: “See ya, wouldn’t wanna be ya.”
EMC to Hadoop competition: “See ya, wouldn’t wanna be ya.”: EMC Greenplum rolled out a new Hadoop distribution that fuses the popular big data platform with its flagship MPP database technology. Co-founder Scott Yara thinks the company’s huge investment puts it in the catbird seat among Hadoop vendors. Greenplum HAWQ: yet another Hadoop distribution, this…
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Tableau tees up an IPO
Tableau tees up an IPO: After a pair of tech companies publicly announced their intent to hit the market late last week, we understand that a high-profile private company is coming up right behind them. Tableau Software is rumored to have quietly filed its IPO paperwork under the JOBS Act, according to a number of…
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IBM Goes All In On Mobile. Design First for MobileFirst
IBM Goes All In On Mobile. Design First for MobileFirst: IBM is making a big splash today on mobile computing. Apparently the firm is doubling its investments in mobile. Just like the 2001 IBM Linux campaign, this is IBM re-focusing on what it thinks is the next big thing it must not miss.
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It turns out a lot of companies like building their own storage gear
It turns out a lot of companies like building their own storage gear: First, cloud storage startup Backblaze pioneered the concept of open source storage hardware. Then, it showed how to pack 135 terabytes into a 4U case (which Backblaze calls a “pod”) for less than $8,000. 135 Terabytes is enough for everybody, forever! SCNR…
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Market Data’s Dirty Little Secret
Market Data’s Dirty Little Secret: In addition to spending enormous sums to buy data, market participants also face a less talked about cost: frequent exchange-driven changes to the feeds. “It takes all the running you can do to keep in the same place. If you want to get somewhere else, you must run at least twice…
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Why virtualization is a feature and VMware will lose
Why virtualization is a feature and VMware will lose: VMware, despite its feature-rich ecosystem and early lead, will lose to vendors, such as Microsoft and Red Hat, who can incorporate the most important virtualization features into their OS. VMware has no OS to fall back on and thus has no long-term future. Some good examples…
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One database to rule them all?
One database to rule them all?: Perhaps the single toughest question in all database technology is: Which different purposes can a single data store serve well? — or to phrase it more technically — Which different usage patterns can a single data store support efficiently? Wouldn’t it be great…
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Two-factor authentication won’t protect Twitter, Google: OneID
Two-factor authentication won’t protect Twitter, Google: OneID: We basically said, let’s take a clean sheet approach to the problem and design a solution that eliminated the use of shared secrets, used modern-day cryptography, and that made it user friendly. The result is a system that has the security that is far better than even using…
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Why Amazon Hired a Car Mechanic to Run Its Cloud Empire
Why Amazon Hired a Car Mechanic to Run Its Cloud Empire: James Hamilton is one of the key thinkers charged with solving such problems, striving to rethink the data center for the age of cloud computing. Much like two other cloud computing giants — Google and Microsoft — Amazon says very little about the particulars…
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