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Editor's note: The tips Bryan Halfpap provides below really work. I stood up a working Hadoop Cluster in under 20 minutes, from cold iron to production ready, using just his guidance and a Rackspace account. bg I've been working with Apache Hadoop in my lab, spending much of that with CDH3 (the Cloudera Distribution including Apache Hadoop). As part of my examination of the best way to move from test/evaluation/prototyping to production systems I've … [Read more...]
Rackspace is a growing cloud computing capability provider that differentiates themselves by what they call "Fanatical Support." We try not to dwell too long on the marketing slogans of firms but have first-hand experience with Rackspace and can tell you their support is really really different. It must be the culture, but every support experience has left me convinced they are a great company to do business with. We host several sites at … [Read more...]
I carry my smartphone with me everywhere. It does everything from Facebook and email to keeping me in the loop with SMS, instant messaging, and real, live phone calls. There’s just one problem -- what happens if my cell phone is stolen and I can't remote wipe it? What happens if I’m stopped at the border of a foreign country and my mobile devices are searched, or what if I’m on a GSM network and am kept under surveillance that includes the … [Read more...]
What is Hadoop? Hadoop is a collection of software originally spawned from the Apache Nutch project (Read a little more of its history HERE that is now its own project within the Apache Foundation. Its goal is to provide a highly redundant, self-repairing cloud of computers that can fail out and still be robust, fast, and efficient. To accomplish this goal, it leverages several pieces of software at its most basic installation (there are other … [Read more...]
Every time someone mentions switching to Linux at home or using it at work, I eventually get asked “But what about my <insert windows application here>. Will it work on Linux too?” Short answer: No. Long Answer: Depends. A fair amount of the software that users are familiar with -- like Microsoft Office -- have counterparts that are Open-Source. Microsoft Office's free doppelganger is Open Office, a program formerly maintained by … [Read more...]
As a visitor to CTOvision.com, chances are you’re involved in technology -- and perhaps business decisions involving the technology at your company or where you work. If you haven’t worked with or around Linux before or if you don’t know much about it, you may want to read on to learn about alternatives to licensed, closed-source operating systems (Windows/MacOS). What is Linux? Linux (pronounced “Line-ooks”) is a computer Operating System … [Read more...]
Windows 7 is really different. It has more functionality, a better interface, and, if you keep it configured/managed, much better security than previous Microsoft operating systems. Here is another fact about Windows 7: It is coming to your enterprise, sooner or later. And, since its functionality/features/security are an improvement over XP and older systems and since many of the issues with Vista seem to have been addressed, I think we should be … [Read more...]
2010 will undoubtedly be a year of technology. In 2009, Twitter revolutionized the way we get news, it brought us closer to those who were a part of the news, almost making traditional media irrelevant. I don't know who (or what) will be the Twitter of 2010, but below are a few predictions for the coming year. Google's Chrome Netbook OS will be a hit. Their OS will mostly be dependent on a Google Account. A Google Account opens up their full Google … [Read more...]
Next month's Gov2.0 Summit (9-10 Sep) is going to be a great event. From what I've seen of the agenda and the hard work the conference organizers have been putting into this I can tell it will bring together a great mix of techies, govies, innovators and citizens in a fast-moving, productive discussion about Web2.0 concepts applied to the largest of the large enterprises. I'm hoping it will also be an opportunity for me to think about one of my … [Read more...]
Software designed by open source standards has security built in and has been found to be fielded with far fewer faults per unit of code than proprietary development houses. There are many reasons for this. This factor is especially true when the open source code is commercially supported. For example, Linux, which has the strength of a huge open community and also the strength of thousands of paid developers from great companies like IBM, Oracle, … [Read more...]
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