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All you Cloud aficionados out there probably already know that Amazon Web Services (AWS) offers multiple availability zones (AZs) in multiple data centers around the world. The idea of an

I’ve spoken about the slippery definition of Big Data in two recent blog posts: Big Data Today, Not So Tomorrow? and The Big Data Long Tail. Since we define Big

Time to check the Web for some definitions: Big Data: a massive volume of both structured and unstructured data that is so large that it’s difficult to process using traditional

There has been quite a buzz over the last year surrounding the Cloud Service-Level Agreement (SLA). What should be in one, whether uptime is the central priority for an SLA,

I was recently reading the news of the Apache Foundation’s recent release of NoSQL database Cassandra version 1.2, and I ran across a description of the Cassandra Query Language (CQL),

Just how big are Big Data anyway? There’s no fixed answer. In fact, Wikipedia for one defines Big Data as a “collection of data sets so large and complex that

Sometimes we spend so much of our day on the hot topics of IT — Cloud, Mobile, Big Data, and Social Media, to name some biggies — that we lose

One of the benefits of Cloud Computing that makes Clouds “Cloudy” is the location independence of its resources. When you provision a Cloud instance, you need not know or care

Anybody who has worked with WSDL-based Web Services knows that the loose coupling they promised was a challenge to achieve. One silver lining around this cloud big-vendor SOA was the