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BotchagalupeMarks for May 7th – 09:04
By John | May 8, 2009
These are my links for May 7th from 09:04 to 15:36:
- ElasticVapor :: Life in the Cloud: The US Federal Government defines Cloud Computing – Reuven Cohen does a great job recapping the federal cloud bash this week….
- 3Tera, Tap In Systems Partner for Cloud Computing Monitoring – Cloud computing and utility computing vendor 3Tera is adding greater management capabilities to its AppLogic platform through a partnership with Tap In Systems.
- Is Big Data at a tipping point? : Dataspora Blog – Stuart Kauffman, in one of his books about complexity, discusses tipping points in networks — what he calls a phase transitions
- How Google and Facebook are using R : Dataspora Blog – Last night, I moderated our Bay Area R Users Group kick-off event with a panel discussion entitled “The R and Science of Predictive Analytics”, co-located with the Predictive Analytics World conference here in SF.
- URL Shortening Wars: Twitter Ditches TinyURL For bit.ly – Which obviously prompts this inevatible question: does the move signal Twitter paving the way for an outright acquisition of the URL shortening service provider?
- Nagios begets ICINGA – Nagios is probably the best known open source network management tool. Ethan Galstead created NetSaint, the tool that eventually became Nagios, many years ago at the very dawn of using open source tools in network management.
- Adventures in Open Source » Blog Archive » Fauxpen Source – In the US it seems to be a growing trend for companies to adopt a “fauxpen source” business model – using the term open source to market their commercial software offerings by providing some of the code under an OSI-approved license, but basing their revenues on the distribution of software under commercial licenses.
- Amazon Web Services Blog: Amazon CloudFront Request Logging – One line is written to a log file each time an object is accessed via CloudFront. This data (object name, access point, time of access, and so forth) can be used to generate usage reports using reporting tools.
- A Tale of Two Cloud Computing Conferences – CIO.com – Business Technology Leadership – The most-commonly used enterprise management products like Tivoli and HP's Operations Manager have not been extended to fully support cloud computing yet (though I did see a demo of Tivoli managing an IBM-hosted cloud environment).
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