If you haven’t heard, Greenplum was just bought by EMC. This, to me, was not unexpected. Smaller players need a lot of funds to create compelling products in this space. Even with a compelling product (and Greenplum’s product is compelling), getting to that next stage may very well require a deep pocketed sugar mommy (or [...]
A little bit ago, I started to think about different backup strategies for the information that I do not wish to lose in case of drive failures or fires. This includes important applications, music and photos. At first I was looking at NAS, but I really don’t want to admin that and I did like [...]
Many years ago, I had a high school science teacher who used that simple line to teach us the proper direction for mixing acid and water. If we forgot, typically there would be sizzling and maybe a mess afterward (only once an explosion). Recently, I’ve been doing a lot of reading on ACID, BASE and [...]
The “Naughties” were a pretty wild decade; from the failed presidency of Bush to the new era of hope with Pres Obama. From the Dot Com bust to the Cloud/Web 2.0 hype there was a ton of change over the past ten years. Here, I want to talk about the social changes brought about by [...]
I’ve been working with and around virtualization techniques for the past few weeks (maybe months, but that’s a longer explanation). This past week I needed to profile an application running on a Red Hat/Fedora Linux variant. Typically getting Oprofile to work takes a few minutes (unless you want to profile the kernel) however using oprofile [...]
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