Category: Technology
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CPU, PSU, SPU – Oracle Critical Patch Update Terminology Update
It’s never too late to change important terminology and confuse customers, that’s what Oracle must’ve been thinking… Security Patch Update (SPU) terminology is introduced in the October 2012 Critical Patch Update as the term for the quarterly security patch. SPU patches are the same as previous CPU patches, just a new name. For the database,…
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Platfora shows a whole new way to do business intelligence on big data
Platfora sounds like the obvious BI and UI engine to power something like Claspin for those who don’t have the luxury of developing something like Claspin from scratch… Based on what I saw in a demonstration, Platfora’s HTML5 canvas rendering makes the process as visually rich as it is fast in terms of processing speed.…
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Monitoring with Claspin
Facebook is using heatmaps to monitor its thousands of servers and services. They built their own tool for that, Claspin, and recently explained it a bit: Monitoring cache with Claspin. That’s an awesome approach to proactive monitoring, and very slick UI to present the tribal knowledge about bad values in servers. I wonder if they’re…
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Metamarkets open sources Druid, its in-memory database
Open Source HANA, anybody? Metamarkets provides a data analytics service that offers real-time analytics, visualizations and other products. Metamarkets Co-Founder and CEO Mike Driscoll said it made sense to open source Druid, because the world needs an open source in-memory database. He said if Metamarkets didn’t offer Druid, someone would build a different option and…
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Homomorphic Encryption
Homomorphic encryption: computation on encrypted databases without ever decrypting them. An important step that should eventually allow even the most privacy focused institutions off-loading some of their data processing into public clouds. Alice hands bob a locked suitcase and asks him to count the money inside. “Sure,” Bob says. “Give me the key.” Alice shakes her…
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Hadapt v2 – Adaptive Analytic Platform
The future is hybrid, kind of like SQL and NoSQL combined. Which is what NoSQL stands for, according to some: Not Only SQL 😉 Hadapt is betting big on hybrid being a requirement for analytic platforms, and Curt Monash nicely sums up the new v2 offering that should be available next quarter. Hadapt+Hadoop is positioned…
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Drunk on Cloud Kool-Aid? Time To Sober Up
The cloud’s ready, but are you, too? How much does it cost you to rewrite everything to be cloud ready? When a new business starts, it will likely be on all-cloud platforms. When an established business replaces a single system, it will be cloud. Or when cloud solutions offer a multiplied increase in value, a…
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Getting Started With The Raspberry Pi Is Not As Easy As Pie
I might not phrase it as harsh, but I’ve been saying many times that the RPi might not be the best option to teach your kids “computers” and “programming”. TechCrunch’s Jon Orlin found that out too: But the Raspberry Pi is not like a computer you get from Apple or pickup at the local Best…
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Save up to 30% by Selecting Better Performing Amazon Instances
How many VMs do you need for this to be worthwhile?
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Oracle Evolution
Everybody’s going all sentimental about Oracle these days… well, at least Curt Monash, who’s looking at Oracle’s evolution — overview. And TechCrunch, who are looking back at 45 billion worth of acquisitions since 2004.
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