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Category: Technology

  • A Vision of the Future Cloud Data Center

    I’m cleaning up my blog and stumbled upon this draft… it’s still relevant, so here you go! Cloudbzz posts their Vision of the Future Cloud Data Center, which is well lined up with what I’m expecting to see.

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    Markus Perdrizat

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  • BYO Oracle RAC on EC2

    Former work mate Jeremy Schneider is always the first to look at interesting ways to use Oracle RAC – now he’s considering to run a BYO Oracle RAC on Amazon EC2. I kinda defeats the purpose of cloud, but it’s still fun the play with. So what’s the right way to use the cloud for…

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  • MongoDB 1.8 Released, Supports Journaling for Fast Crash Recovery

    MongoDB 1.8 Released, Supports Journaling for Fast Crash Recovery. See more on the MondoDB Journaling page. Good stuff by the Mongo guys, bringing it one step closer to Enterprise readiness.

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  • Survey Shows Poor Performance of Cloud Applications Delays Cloud Adoption

    Check this. Fun the read, quick to forget. Compuware Corporation today announced the findings of a cloud performance survey  conducted by Vanson Bourne. The survey of 677 businesses in North  America and Europe examined the impact application performance has on  cloud application strategy and deployments. The survey reveals that the majority of organizations in both…

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  • Teradata acquiring Aster Data

    This just came in: Teradata acquiring Aster Data. Database consolidation wars is full speed ahead, last month, it was HP acquiring Vertica, last year IBM bought Netezza, and EMC bought Greenplum. So within six months, the four biggest and most promising MPP DB vendors have found a new owner.

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  • Acunu NoSQL Appliance

    GigaOm reports that Big Data Startup Acunu Raises Small Funding. These guys (based in London) are building a HW appliance with SSD for a variety of NoSQL stores, currently supporting Cassandra and an Amazon S3 compatible RESTful interface. The Acunu Storage Core is an open source next-generation storage stack built from the ground up for…

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  • How Cloudera Became a Leader in BI/Hadoop

    With a flurry of recent BI-oriented partnerships, it’s no surprise Cloudera is attracting so much interest. via How Cloudera Became a Leader in BI/Hadoop

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  • Gartner and “Good Enough” Data Integration

    Gartner and “Good Enough” Data Integration: Data Integration leaders are under pressure from “good enough” competitors. This gives non-dominant players a golden opportunity to contest the status quo.

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  • Membase and CouchOne merged to form Couchbase

    Let the NoSQL Consolidation Wars begin: Membase and CouchOne merged to form Couchbase. In essence, Couchbase will be CouchDB with scale-out. Alternatively, Couchbase will be Membase with a richer programming interface. TechCrunch and GigaOm also report on the news.

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  • 2011 Magic Quadrant for Business Intelligence Platforms

    Gartner released it’s 2011 Magic Quadrant for Business Intelligence Platforms, and Oracle apparently is sponsoring it for the public. We have to obvious suspects in the leaders quadrant: Oracle, IBM, Microsoft and SAP, as well as a few smaller folks. Most of the remaining vendors are in the niche players quadrant, there are no visionaries…

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