Remember the old joke about the fellow carrying bags of sand across the US/Mexican border on his bike? The guards couldn’t find any contraband in the sand. He returned week
Veteran industry analyst Judith Hurwitz astutely compares data centers to garages. When you buy a house, there’s plenty of room for two cars. But over the years, the clutter builds
Even though it’s difficult to tell, the name of this blog is The Agile Architecture Revolution, which is coincidentally the name of my new book, coming out next month. However,
If you haven’t heard about the recent travails of Oracle’s Java Runtime Environment (JRE), then you’ve probably had your head in the sand. The JRE — the client-side version of
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),