News, analysis and context on enterprise technology for the CTO
Join the local DC community at a Hadoop Users Group meeting on Wed, Jan 25th from 6-9pm at The National Press Club, 529 14th Street NW, 13th floor, Washington, DC. The event will feature Doug Cutting and Todd Lipcon each discussing a variety of Hadoop technical capabilities, as well as taking Q & A from the audience. Doug is the creator of numerous successful open source projects, including Lucene, Nutch and the co-creator of Apache Hadoop … [Read more...]
Amazon didn't invent cloud computing, but they deserve lots of credit for transforming the business model for providing cloud services through elastic computing (for some history see Jeff Bezos' Risky Bet from Businessweek Nov 2006). They have pushed the economics of cloud computing to be so efficient they are able to offer a 12 months worth of initial compute for free. This is a great opportunity to learn their interface and to test how their computing … [Read more...]
The vFabric Cloud Application Platform was built by VMware to help move applications and capabilities into the cloud (or cloud friendly architectures). This platform combines their "Spring" development platform to the vFabric service delivery solution. The vFabric offering is comprised of the following: The Spring framework used by millions of developers to build modern applications. tc Server: An enterprise version of Apache Tomcat application … [Read more...]
At first glance, cloud computing may seem to be distinct from the austere world of special operations forces (SOF). But Special Operations Technology's Eric Marks has a very interesting piece on how SOF can use the cloud to gain the tactical advantage. Some highlights: Cloud to the edge tactical mobile computing, which would feature the re-engineering of mission threads and processes so they could be executed by mobile devices. "This could include … [Read more...]
Recently, Apple announced their purchase of Israeli flash memory producer, Anobit. The proposed purchase would be $500M (just a drop in the bucket of their $81B cash reserves). However, this purchase has long-reaching implications on not only their mobile/tablet portfolio, but also their computing capabilities. Mobile/Tablet Implications Apple has long insisted that removeable media was unnecessary, and have kept it out of their products. However, … [Read more...]
Check out this blog post over on GIGAOM (here). The topic, Nick D'Aloisio, has created Summly, an iPhone app, which does this; "Summari[z]es content into a digestible format that can be easily consumed to allow for a relevant and productive web browsing experience." Unlike Google Currents (post here), which re-formats news feeds and sites into better organized and easily readable content, Summly uses "ontological detection and machine learning … [Read more...]
What could you do if you had access to all of twitter all at once? What if you combined that with 75 million other data feeds? And combined it with an easy-to-use-tool and impressive visuals? What if it were a service software? That’s exactly what the Social Media Command Center from InTTENSITY is. It’s your social media and Internet war room -- replete with maps, calenders, lists of events and people. Its primary purpose: to allow users to … [Read more...]
Last week, Adobe announced that they were dropping development for Flash for mobile devices and TV. According to Adobe: "Our future work with Flash on mobile devices will be focused on enabling Flash developers to package native apps with Adobe AIR for all the major app stores. We will no longer continue to develop Flash Player in the browser to work with new mobile device configurations (chipset, browser, OS version, etc.) following the upcoming … [Read more...]
Although many industries have been quick to implement cloud-based solutions, the healthcare industry has been hesitant to fully adopt cloud-computing solutions. While a portion of this hesitancy stems from legitimate privacy concerns and the need to protect patients’ private health information in accordance with HIPAA regulations, the industry’s slow implementation of cloud-based solutions can primarily be attributed to a general disinterest in the … [Read more...]
The Kindle Fire (shipping yesterday, with over 1M pre-orders) has been indicted as a device that will further fracture the Android Ecosystem. It has an Android 2.3 (Gingerbread) soul, but is completely skinned over in all Amazon garb. The dual-core, 7" tablet has quite a few capabilities that stand out, but it is clear that the intent is to boost user buy-in into the Amazon ecosystem. Amazon now offers streaming video, book rentals, music … [Read more...]