I recently caught the 1968 movie The Odd Couple on TV. It starred Jack Lemmon and Walter Matthau, and was based on Neil Simon’s 1965 Broadway play. The movie and subsequent TV series features a neat freak and neurotic, Felix Ungar rooming with his friend Oscar Madison, a messy sportswriter. As you may recall Felix [...]
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Scroll down to vote for who you think will be the next to be acquired? The hot news in the “Big Data” world this afternoon is the acquisition of Greenplum by EMC. Greenplum has been one of the major high performance analytics players focusing on “Big Data” (see my analysis of Greenplum’s Enterprise Data Cloud strategy [...] For all the advances the human race has delivered over countless centuries, one could argue that this is still a very complex world indeed. True, things can now be accomplished a lot faster, cheaper and more efficiently than ever before, but exactly how far have we come that it still takes an average person till [...] According to the Wikipedia page on Weight Loss “Between $33 billion and $55 billion is spent annually on weight loss products and services, including medical procedures and pharmaceuticals, with weight loss centers garnering between 6 percent and 12 percent of total annual expenditure. About 70 percent of Americans’ dieting attempts are of a self-help nature. [...] Today EMC Corporation announced an expansion of its EMC Atmos cloud partner ecosystem to help customers manage and optimize external clouds as part of an overall private cloud strategy. RainStor (my current company) participated in the early evaluation and feedback of the Atmos platform. Our close partnership with EMC has ensured that our ISV partners, who [...] There has been quite a bit written about Big Data including a whole issue with more mainstream articles in The Economist last month. Interestingly, most of the talk has been focused on how to process and analyze “Big Data for Fast Insights”, which happens to be Aster Data’s catchy tagline. Also to that end, interest in Hadoop is gaining steam, [...] The website The Global Language Monitor as of December 21st states there are 1,002,116 “Global English Words” in use today. Additionally it says: English passed the 1,000,000 threshold on June 10, 2009 at 10:22 am GMT According to the book One Million Words and Counting by [...] An Amazon AWS blog post a few months ago discussed a AWS Import/Export service which allows customers to physically ship their data to Amazon by Fedexing their hard drives. Known tongue-in-cheek in circles as “SneakerNet”. According to the Amazon Import/Export calculator, SneakerNet provides an approximate 50% savings to the standard S3 Data Transfer-in charges. Additionally, Werner [...] |
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