BotchagalupeMarks for July 14th – 14:50

By John | July 15, 2009

These are my links for July 14th from 14:50 to 15:23:

Hadoop Companies Everywhere – I'm becoming more and more convinced that Hadoop is going to be its own ecosystem which I must cover as a whole beat unto itself. Call it the Map/Reduce beat, call it the big-data crunching beat. Call it the elephant with its footprints in the butter. But no matter what you call it, companies are generating more data every day, and many of them aren't deriving business intelligence from said data. And that spells opportunity.
[tcpm] Tuning TCP parameters for the 21st century – At Google we have embarked on a mission to make the web faster, not
just for services provided by Google, but for every web user. We started
with TCP because TCP performance has always been a key component of
the end2end web performance. There are a number of default TCP parameter
settings, that, although conservative, have served us well over the
years. We believe the time has come to tune some of the parameters to
get more speed out of a much faster Internet than 10-20 years ago. The
current list includes:
CloudSwitch Doubles Venture Pot, Names CEO; Startup Wants to Make Cloud Computing Safe and Simple for Enterprises | Xconomy – And that’s the opportunity that his company, Burlington, MA-based CloudSwitch, is moving to address. The young startup’s president and CEO says CloudSwitch is about “making it easier for enterprises to use the cloud—as easy as holding a crayon in your hand.”

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