Tuesday was sort of a pre-day for GlueCon. I flew out a day early both to try beating jet lag and to learn a bit more from the conference than I otherwise might. Travel Fun I flew on Southwest because, well, it’s cheaper. And I got what I paid for. The flight into Midway was [...]
Now that both Hadoop World and Open World are done, let’s compare and contrast: Cost To Go $300 $1800 and that’s early bird Location NYC, NY San Francisco, CA Number Of Attendees 900 41,000 % of women 5%. At most 30-40% Laptop Use During Talks 33% 10% Typical Dress Jeans & Company / Logo Polo [...]
Today was Hadoop World 2010 in NYC. Put together by the good folk at Cloudera, this conference was a long day focusing on big data, analytics and the Hadoop ecosystem. All in all, this was a good conference. Hadoop and I were decent friends before today, with me being pretty good on how it could [...]
Some of the more “established” players in the cloud marketspace take a potshot at Oracle’s Exalogic over on ReadWriteWeb today (I say “established,” because the market is far too young to have any truly established players as of yet). Essentially, their gripe is the “cloud in a box” marketing metaphor Oracle is using to push [...]
I haven’t written much about Google’s new OS mostly because I haven’t had enough time to work through the math on it. Or, for that matter, download and play with it myself. I tend to think that it has some promise and represents a change in direction for the OS world (if adopted, which is [...]
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