Streaming for Hadoop
The genesis of this post is that: Hortonworks is trying to revitalize the Apache Storm project, after Storm lost momentum; indeed, Hortonworks is referring to Storm as a component of Hadoop. Cloudera...
View ArticleNotes on machine-generated data, year-end 2014
Most IT innovation these days is focused on machine-generated data (sometimes just called “machine data”), rather than human-generated. So as I find myself in the mood for another survey post, I can’t...
View ArticleData models
7-10 years ago, I repeatedly argued the viewpoints: Relational DBMS were the right choice in most cases. Multiple kinds of relational DBMS were needed, optimized for different kinds of use case. There...
View ArticleCask and CDAP
For starters: Continuuity toured in 2012 and touted its “app server for Hadoop” technology. Continuuity recently changed its name to Cask and went open source. Cask’s product is now called CDAP (Cask...
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IT-centric notes on the future of health care
It’s difficult to project the rate of IT change in health care, because: Health care is suffused with technology — IT, medical device and biotech alike — and hence has the potential for rapid change....
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Rocana’s world
For starters: My client Rocana is the renamed ScalingData, where Rocana is meant to signify ROot Cause ANAlysis. Rocana was founded by Omer Trajman, who I’ve referenced numerous times in the past, and...
View ArticleBasho and Riak
Basho was on my (very short) blacklist of companies with whom I refuse to speak, because they have lied about the contents of previous conversations. But Tony Falco et al. are long gone from the...
View ArticleSplunk engages in stupid lawyer tricks
Using legal threats as an extension of your marketing is a bad idea. At least, it’s a bad idea in the United States, where such tactics are unlikely to succeed, and are apt to backfire instead. Splunk...
View ArticleNotes on the transition to the cloud
1. The cloud is super-hot. Duh. And so, like any hot buzzword, “cloud” means different things to different marketers. Four of the biggest things that have been called “cloud” are: The Amazon cloud,...
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Interana
Interana has an interesting story, in technology and business model alike. For starters: Interana does ad-hoc event series analytics, which they call “interactive behavioral analytics solutions”....
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