May 20th, 2009 Attending Structure 2009- Put Cloud Computing to Work

We are excited to be attending the Structure 2009 - Put Cloud Computing to Work by GigaOM on June 25, 2009 at the Mission Bay Conference Center, San Francisco, CA

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May 18th, 2009 Amazon + Hadoop…Now that’s a match made in heaven!

Amazon introduces Elastic MapReduce, “a web service that enables businesses, researchers, data analysts and developers to easily and cost-effectively process vast amounts of data.”

In its statement, Amazon said:
Amazon Elastic MapReduce creates data processing job flows that are executed by Hadoop software on the web-scale infrastructure of Amazon EC2. The service automatically launches and configures the number and type of Amazon EC2 instances specified by customers. It then kicks off a Hadoop implementation of the MapReduce programming model, which loads large amounts of user input data from Amazon S3 and then subdivides it for parallel processing using Amazon EC2 instances. As processing completes, data is re-combined and reduced into a final solution, and the results deposited back into Amazon S3. Users can configure, manipulate, and monitor job flows through web service APIs or via the AWS Management Console.

It’s kind of a big deal, says Dana Gardner: “Think of it as having your own tuned supercomputer that you can plug gigantic data sets into and ask questions that will determine the course of your businesses for the next decade. Oh, and you can pay for the pleasure on a credit card.”

Techcrunch says: With Hadoop, Amazon Adds A Web-Scale Data Processing Engine To Its Cloud Computer

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May 14th, 2009 We are attending TIECON 2009!

I am very excited to be attending the TIECON 2009 this year. As always, TIECON has proved to be of invaluable value by helping us effectively network among peers and industry stalwarts.  I also hope to reconnect & catch up with old buddies. Going by the list of attendees, it sure is going to be a great crowd puller!

Will keep you posted as I go around!

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