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Smart Analytics Cloud...
During IBM’s Q3 earnings call a few weeks ago, IBM CFO Mark Loughridge highlighted business analytics as a sector where Big Blue is investing significant amounts of cash. The company recently acquired data analytics company SPSS for $1.2 billion and business analytics firm RedPill. Tonight, IBM is...
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MindTouch Cloud: The Open Source Alterna...
Sharepoint is the big giant in the enterprise collaboration space. Salesforce.com is now in the market with Salesforce Chatter, a service that embraces Facebook, Twitter and the applications within Force.com. MindTouch has the potential to compete with the large market players. Today they are announcing...
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Google Innovations...
I asked a question to myself: “Why has Google been incredibly successful in defending and growing its core as well as introducing non-core disruptive innovations?”. To answer my own question I ran down Google’s innovation strategy through Clayton Christensen’s concepts and framework...
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Gartner Says Cloud Computing Will Be As ...
Cloud computing heralds an evolution of business that is no less influential than e-business, according to Gartner Inc. Gartner maintains that the very confusion and contradiction that surrounds the term “cloud computing” signifies its potential to change the status quo in the IT market. Gartner...
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Posted by Yousef in Cloud Computing, Cloud Services on 05 11th, 2009 | No Comments
How To Purchase an EC2 Reserved Instance...
I thought that it would be worthwhile to outline the steps needed to purchase an EC2 Reserved Instance. Here’s what you need to do: Choose a Region. Choose an Availability Zone. Locate the Reserved Instance offering. Make the purchase. Enjoy….
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Configuring Eclipse for Hadoop Developme...
One of the perks of using Java is the availability of functional, cross-platform IDEs.  I use vim for my daily editing needs, but when it comes to navigating, debugging, and coding large Java projects, I fire up Eclipse. Typically, when you’re developing Map-Reduce applications, you simply point...
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High Energy Hadoop...
We asked Brian Bockelman, a Post Doc Research Associate in the Computer Science & Engineering Department at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln, to tell us how Hadoop is being used to process the results from High-Energy Physics experiments.  His response gives insights into the kind and volume...
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Hive and JobTracker Needed Logos?...
In the process of working on a few things here I wanted to add some links to launch Hive and the Hadoop Jobtracker. At first I considered just adding the links but I found myself wanting a button of some sort; an icon for them. I didn’t want to just use the (awesomely cute) Hadoop [...]
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Cloudera?s Distribution for Hadoop: Maki...
A few weeks ago we announced Cloudera’s Distribution for Hadoop, and I want to spend some time showing how our distribution makes a sysadmin’s job a little easier. Perhaps the most useful features in our distribution, at least for sysadmins, are RPM packages and init scripts.  RPMs are...
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Upcoming Functionality in ?Fair Schedule...
As Hadoop clusters grow in size and data volume, it becomes more and more useful to share them between multiple users and to isolate these users. If User 1 is running a ten-hour machine learning job for example, this should not impair a User 2 from running a 2-minute Hive query. In November, I blogged...
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