Here are some of the fake O'Reilly book covers I mentioned in a
prior post. These have been optimized for use as black
& white Kindle screensaver wallpaper images. If you
haven't done so already, you can install a Kindle screensaver hack with a couple of
downloads.
Update: I've embedded a slideshow from PicasaWeb, but it requires Flash. If you don't see it you can click on the links below to go directly to PicasaWeb.
Issue addressed: Managing metadata at exabyte scale
Delivering Agile Storage in the Cloud with Billions of Assets
The Company: Founded in 2001, Limelight Networks, Inc (NASDAQ: LLNW) is an Internet platform and services company that integrates the most business-critical parts of the online content value chain. Limelight’s cloud-based services enable customers to profit from the shift of content and advertising to the online world, from the explosive growth of mobile and connected devices, and from the migration of IT applications and services to the cloud. More than 1,800 customers worldwide use Limelight’s massively scalable services to better engage audiences, optimize advertising, manage and monetize …
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I'll be doing the keynote at Cloud Tech Day here in Stockholm on tuesday. I'll
be speaking a bit about what Recorded Future is up to, about
Clouds at Amazon and what it is like, about databases, like MySQL
and MongoDB, in the Clouds and about Big Data in the Cloud!
Really big data in Mongo, in MySQL and the lot.
As usual, I will express my opinions in no uncertain terms. What
works? What doesn't work? What really should work, but which
doesn't! What is considered new and waay cool but what is really
some old technology that didn't use to work and has little chance
of working now. And stuff like that, you know what it's like and
maybe you even know what I am like :-)
Hope to see you on tuesday
/Karlsson
I am Cloud
Camp in Stockholm today. Some interesting ideas are bounced
around, pretty cool stuff.
One thing hit me today though: the lack in innovation, in IT as a
whole and in databases in particular is stunning. I have thus
decided to write a few blogpost on this I think should, and
probably eventually has to change, but noone wants to change it,
and few even see it as a problem.
That said, I still got a few interesting ideas today, and I will
test some products I saw here, and I will write a few blogpost on
some of them.
I think the good usecases for clouds is also getting clearer, and
that is a good thing. In difference to the current IT trends, IT
press and many high-profile bloggers as well as IT influencers, I
do not think that cloud computing will help resolve the conflict
in the middle east. Also, I do not believe that the introduction
of …
I'll be at Cloud Camp here in Stockholm on November 23. Some
familiar faces will be there, beyond yours truly then. I will
discuss and present some real-live Database Cloud experiences,
but as this is an unconference, don't expect slides, rather I
will talk from my heart and give you some annoying and upsetting
views on how things really are. Really!
I hope to see you there, pop by and say hello!
/Karlsson
Review of Thursday’s Cloud Events in Boston
Everyone is well aware by now of the EC2 outage that Amazon had back in April and it would have surprised no one if that high profile had put a damper on cloud adoption. But judging what we heard yesterday at Boston’s two cloud events (MassTLC’s Cloud Computing Summit and Vilna’s Moving Your Data to the Cloud Panel), cloud solutions can work just fine. For example, there was the customer story told by Douglas Kim, Managing Director, Global Head, PaaS & Cloud Computing at PegaSystems. Pegasystems is a Boston tech company that started …
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Review of the O’Reilly Strata Making Data Work Conference
(reprinted from my guest blog for the Cloud Council of 7)
Monica Rogati of LinkedIn told a story of the early days at the firm, when the reporting system consisted of a single server under someone’s desk. One day, someone needed an Ethernet cable and unplugged the machine from the data outlet in the wall. LinkedIn’s data reporting, its life blood, instantly came to a screeching halt.
The Push to the …
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More and more public cloud companies are moving to managed cloud
services to improve their value-add (price premium) and the
stickiness of their solution. However, the shift to a database as
a service (DaaS) severely reduces the DBAs visibility into the
business, thus limiting the ability to hand tune the database to
the requirements of the application and the database. The
solution is a cloud database that eliminates the hand-tuning of
the database, thereby enabling the DBA to be equally effective
even with limited visibility into the business and application
needs. It is these unique needs, particularly for SQL databases,
that is fueling the NewSQL movement.
DBAs traditionally have insight into the company, enabling them
to hand tune the database in a collaborative basis with the
development team, such as:
1. Performance Trade-offs/Tuning: The database is partitioned and
tuned to address business requirements, maximizing performance of …
As public clouds are commoditized, the public cloud vendors are
increasingly moving to higher margin and stickier managed
services. In the early days of the public cloud, renting compute
and storage was unique, exciting, sticky and profitable. It has
quickly become a commodity. In order to provide differentiation,
maintain margins and create barriers to customer exit, against
increasing competition, the cloud is moving toward a collection
of managed services.
Public clouds are growing beyond simple compute instances to
platform as a service (PaaS). PaaS is then comprised of various
modules, including database as a service (DaaS). In the early
days you rented a number of compute instances, loaded your
database software and you were the DBA managing all
aspects of that database. Increasingly, public clouds are moving
toward a DaaS model, where the cloud customer writes to a simple
database API and the cloud provider is the DBA. …
It’s a busy summer at Pythian, with our continuing wave of speaking sessions at upcoming community and regional industry events.
Coming to a city near you, watch for Pythian presenting hot
Oracle and Microsoft SQL Server database topics:
IN CANADA:
Oracle Technology Days – Montreal
August 9, 2011 – 8:30am – 1pm, Hilton Montreal
Bonaventure
Oracle Technology Days – Toronto
August 25, …