I have been using the beta version of SkyDrive for a while now and I love it. I was a huge user of Live Mesh for its peer-to-peer synchronization capabilities. I am certain I will miss that feature but I understand the need to remove complexity and streamline features as …
Granted, Netflix had to build their own pipeline based on open source technologies. They used the right tool for the job. They used a NoSQL solution for reliably gathering/recording their data at scale. They used an RDBMS where it made sense.
Netflix is a big company. They can build their own data processing infrastructure from the various pieces. However, what about all those smaller companies that want to collect and process data that is critical to their growth, competitiveness, survival? Wouldnt they benefit from cloud solutions that are scalable, reliable, and NOT managed by them!
I am really enjoying the work that my new team does. We are a Cloud-focused team. I am really looking forward to when we are going to be in a position to talk in public about what we are building. I am learning a lot and the people in the …
/**/ Tony Hey, Roger Barga, and I were asked to contribute an essay for an MIT Press book entitled “World Wide Research – Reshaping the Sciences and Humanities”, edited by William H. Dutton and Paul W. Jeffreys. We decided to write about “Research Platforms and the Cloud”. That was a …
I enjoyed reading Ian’s analysis on how to interpret “faster” when it comes to comparing infrastructure-as-a-service and a supercomputer. Snippet: For example, let’s say we want to run the LU benchmark, which (based on the numbers in Ed’s paper) when run on 32 processors takes ~25 secs on the supercomputer …
I was wondering whether the community out there could help me. If you don’t know the answer, please blog about it and point people here so we can find the answer, if there is one… Few months ago I read in Robert’s blog about the distinction he made between “Infrastructure …
Here are some of my highlights of PDC 08 – Day 1 Keynote (Ray Ozzie, Bob Muglia). Windows Azure and Azure Services Platform were announced. The technology is great. Ray’s appearance was very good (he’s come long ways from the first time I saw him present) and Bob’s was energetic. …
A great read for those, like me, who are into large-scale systems. See what happened in S3′s recent 9-hour downtime from the people at the center of it. (via Werner Vogel’s blog)
Werner Vogel just finished his “Ahead in the Cloud” talk here at the DISC 08 workshop. As always, very entertaining. Amazon is light years ahead of the rest of the industry in thinking about and delivering utility computing to the world. The talk was not technical given the audience here …
I am spending today, tomorrow, and Friday at the University of Washington at an NSF-funded workshop on how to use Hadoop to write map-reduce computations. I already know map-reduce of course but it’s interesting to get some hands-on experience on Hadoop. Fun!
20 Petabytes/day! Now, how much is that in rice units? :-)… “I never knew Google was THIS massive!“
As I catch up with my blog feeds after having wrongly configured Outlook, which left me without updates for more than two weeks, I came across this great post by Robert of Digipede fame. Great little summary! “The diagram to the right shows this continuum from infrastructure to platform to …