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BotchagalupeMarks for July 28th – 05:30
By John | July 29, 2009
These are my links for July 28th from 05:30 to 18:12:
- Webcast: An Introduction to Hadoop – In this webcast, Cloudera founder Christophe Bisciglia and O'Reilly author Tom White will provide an introduction to Hadoop/MapReduce, the open source project that allows organizations to process, store and analyze massive application datasets. Hadoop, which some are calling the killer app for the cloud, already serves as the data processing engine behind some of the world's largest and most popular Internet businesses including Google, Yahoo! and Facebook. Bisciglia and White will cover the most frequently asked questions about Hadoop / MapReduce as well as tips to designing, deploying, and maintaining a Hadoop cluster.
- Up, Out, Centralized, and Decentralized | Cloudscaling – It can be confusing to understand how to scale computing systems, but it’s not rocket science. There are really only two main axes of scale: out and up. Closely related to the axis of scale is the general type of architecture: centralized or decentralized. In this article I’m going to briefly revisit scaling and then talk about centralized vs. decentralized architectures.
- A Field Report from OSCON – As you’re probably well aware, OSCON is one of the must-attend open source conferences held each year, and last week, the 11th annual OSCON was held in San Jose, California. Although some felt that OSCON didn’t quite make the splash in its new San Jose home that was expected, the decidedly geeky conference put on by tech publisher O’Reilly Media included many sessions and exhibitors of interest. Here are a few notable examples, in a guest column from SourceForge advisory board member Mark R. Hinkle.
- Is Your IT Shop Mature Enough for Cloud Computing? | Software & Services Safari | ZDNet.com – Recently, I’ve written about software vendors being (or not being ready) for cloud computing. I’ve also written about large consultancies being able to support their clients as they move to the cloud. These consultancies and systems integrators are taking the cloud mainstream.
- Capturing the private cloud — Government Computer News – The information technology industry is all abuzz over cloud computing, but government agencies might need to sit on the sidelines until vendors work out security and procurement issues. All those benefits that accrue with this new approach to computing — flexibility with resources and savings with consolidation — will have to wait.
- An_Essential_Guide_to_Possibilities_and_Risks_of_Cloud_Computing-A_Pragmatic_Effective_and_Hype_Free_Approach_For_Strategic_Enterprise_Decision_Making.pdf (application/pdf Object) – By 2011, early technology adopters will forgo capital expenditures and instead purchase 40% of their IT infrastructure as a service … Cloud Computing will take off, thus untying applications from specific infrastructure.”
by Gartner Highlights Key Predictions for IT Organizations and Users in 2008 and Beyond,
January 2008 - Set Up a Private Cloud in 5 Steps with Ubuntu and OpenNebula – So, do you want to transform your rigid and compartmented infrastructure, into a flexible and agile platform where you can dynamically deploy new services and adjust their capacity?. If the answer is yes, you want to build what is nowadays called a private cloud.
In this mini-howto, you will learn to setup such private cloud in 5 steps with Ubuntu and OpenNebula. We assume that your infrastructure follows a classical cluster-like architecture, with a front-end (cluster01, in the howto) and a set of worker nodes (cluster02 and cluster03).
- Gardeviance: Recent Talks – Video links of Simon Wardley's (of Canonical) presentations…
- HadoopDB: An Open Source Parallel Database – O’Reilly Radar – The growing need to manage and make sense of Big Data, has led to demand for analytic databases, which many companies are attempting to fill (Teradata, Netezza, Vertica, DATAllegro, Greenplum†, Aster Data, Infobright, Kickfire, Dataupia, ParAccel, Exasol, …). As an alternative to current shared-nothing analytic databases, HadoopDB is a hybrid that combines parallel databases with scalable and fault-tolerant Hadoop/MapReduce systems.
- Gartner Hype Cycle 2009: What’s Peaking, What’s Troughing? « I’m Not Actually a Geek – Gartner maintains something called hype cycles for various technologies. What’s a hype cycle? It’s the recurring cycle that Gartner sees for the introduction of new technologies. Here are five stages that cover the hype cycle:
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