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Cloud computing may be the final nail in traditional IT’s coffin
The gods could be crazy, or they simply may not like IT very much. Over the past decade, trend after trend has arisen to give power back to developers to get their work done, and away from the...
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IBM embraces the DevOps counterculture
When The Man embraces a counterculture movement like DevOps, does that mean it no longer counts as counterculture? We’re about to see because IBM is serious about DevOps, and not as some cheap way to...
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Public vs private clouds: A matter of technology, politics, or culture
Is “hybrid cloud” or “private cloud” simply ways of saying that a company isn’t ready to fully embrace the “real” cloud? Cloudscaling co-founder Randy Bias arguesthat cloud computing requires a...
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Hadoop and Storm are shifting the industry toward Big Data-enabled cloud...
Dave and I were fortunate to attend a Churchill Club event on Hadoop Tuesday night. Hadoop sits at the center of the burgeoning Big Data universe, and so one might be tempted to conclude that it’s...
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Technology trends: Buy into realities, not hype
Call it irrational exuberance. Call it hype. Call it whatever you want, but understand that just because a big technology trend dominates the media doesn’t mean it’s The Right Thing for you or your...
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When Hadoop isn’t fast enough: The Argument for Storm
Big Data is a Big Deal, and Hadoop is arguably the driving force in Big Data. But as awesome as Hadoop is – and it is quite awesome – it’s incomplete. For many things, Hadoop’s batch workflow is just...
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Are we trying to fit square Hadoop pegs into round real-time holes?
Big Data is a big market, projected to top $16.9 billion by 2015, according to IDC. The Hadoop ecosystem, alone, is worth $1 billion per year, according to Forrester, and is set to explode by most...
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The gold in the Big Data hills is fueled by open-source software
Who knew that there could be so much money in analyzing data? According to IDC, the analytics market will be worth $50.7 billion by 2016. And that’s without breaking a sweat. The value in analytics...
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Nodeable Bolsters Hadoop with StreamReduce Analytics Engine for Real-Time...
SAN FRANCISCO – July 18, 2012 – Nodeable, providers of real-time data stream processing, today announced general availability of StreamReduce, the first real-time big data Hadoop pre-processing...
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The JavaScript Pillars of 2012
I was recently forwarded this article from a co-worker, and I got to thinking about their list of “Best JavaScript Libraries” and how if I wrote that article, I wouldn’t have included any of those....
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