By Bob Gourley
Editor’s note: This list first appeared on our site Analyst One. -bg
In March 2011 Businessweek quoted Cloudera’s Mike Olson describing a
“Cambrian explosion” of corporate analytical technology. Mike really
nailed it with that one. With the continuous development of advanced
infrastructure based around Apache Hadoop there has been an incredible amount
of innovation around enterprise “Big Data” technologies, including in the
analytical tool space.
This is great for analysts! But it poses some challenges. How do you know
which technologies deserve your time and energy? Which firms have something
so important that you should push hard to get them into your enterprise?
Those are questions we would like to help you address.
We have produced The Analyst One Top Technologies List to help you address
those questions. This is a short list of firms that can hel... (more)
Shrinking your Url’s is all the rage nowadays. If you are on Twitter,
then odds are you have used one. Despite CodingHorror’s distaste for them
in his recent blog post on Url Shorteners: Destroying the Web since 2002,
they are a fact of life when we live in a world of 140 character status
updates.
So what’s a URL shrinking service anyway? Well, to put it simply, you
supply them with a URL, they then supply you with a shorter URL containing a
lookup “key”. When future requests are made to this shorter URL,
connections are routed to that services website where they convert the short
URL to the original URL and issue a HTTP Redirect back to your browser to
send you off to the original long url website.
So, what’s a guy, or gal, to do if they want to set their status
programmatically on Twitter, Facebook, FriendFeed, or the other gazillion
social networking sites ... (more)
Shrinking your Url’s is all the rage nowadays. If you are on Twitter,
then odds are you have used one. Despite CodingHorror’s distaste for them
in his recent blog post on Url Shorteners: Destroying the Web since 2002,
they are a fact of life when we live in a world of 140 character status
updates.
So what’s a URL shrinking service anyway? Well, to put it simply, you
supply them with a URL, they then supply you with a shorter URL containing a
lookup “key”. When future requests are made to this shorter URL,
connections are routed to that services website where they convert the short
URL to the original URL and issue a HTTP Redirect back to your browser to
send you off to the original long url website.
So, what’s a guy, or gal, to do if they want to set their status
programmatically on Twitter, Facebook, FriendFeed, or the other gazillion
social networking sites ... (more)
The Cloud Security Alliance has released it's inaugural whitepaper called
"Security Guidance for Critical Areas of Focus in Cloud Computing". The paper
is being presented today at RSA outlines key issues and provides advice for
both Cloud Computing customers and providers within 15 strategic domains. It
is now available on the Cloud Security Alliance website at
www.cloudsecurityalliance.org/guidance.
According to Alliance co-founders Nils Puhlmann and Jim Reavis, the several
months of collaboration on the white paper was worth the effort, "We would
like to thank the many contributors to this initial effort. The great
diversity of services offered via cloud computing requires careful analysis
to understand the risks and mitigation appropriate in each case. At the same
time, we see enormous potential for the cloud model to eventually simplify
many difficult security p... (more)
Diane Macedo of Fox News worked on Sofia's story for more than a month,
studying documents, interviewing more than a dozen people, and fact-checking
before publishing her news story on Monday and airing our interview.
Here is the link to the Fox News on-camera interview.
This morning, on Monday, she also published a detailed article on Sofia:
▸ Fox News Story on Sofia's Abduction to Syria
When Sofia returns safely home, she will pay her first visit to Diane at Fox
News headquarters in New York City.
▸ US Leaves Its Youngest Citizen Behind Syria
I already wrote two blog posts on Sofia's status in Syria. Both posts were
read by Washington, by our Embassy in Damascus, Syria, as well as the Syrian
government both here in DC and in Damascus.
▸ Open Letter to the President of Syria Bashar al-Assad
▸ Open Letter to the First Lady of Syria Asma al-Assad
Following the Syrian p... (more)
Social Media on Ulitzer
I use all of these social media tools and although they haven't put me on my
own island in the Caribbean yet, I'm very pleased with the combined results.
1. Twitter – It’s the fastest way to share that you have created
something of value. As a bonus, Tweetdeck or CoTweet are good ways to manage
your Twitter efforts and research. Huge audience with lots of active
participants. There are a few shady characters on Twitter but just like being
at Grand Central Station, you just step aside and keep moving. It doesn't
mean you eschew the benefit. Micro-blogging is probably here to stay so it's
a good idea to get up on good habits regardless of what future tools look
like.
2. Linked In – It’s the professional network standard where people will
find you. A terrific way to maintain knowledge of what former colleagues are
doing now. You can also join gr... (more)
The folks here on the DevCentral team have been producing a weekly podcast
for a while now. Trying to keep our budget low, we opted to copy what some
other podcasters were doing by making use of Skype for our audio
communication and found a great little Skype add-on called Pamela which
creates high-quality WAV files from Skype conversations.
We created a dedicated Skype account on an old machine here in the office
that will auto-record whenever that account is added to a conversation. We
would occasionally have differences in audio levels between the callers so we
incorporated the awesome The Levelator (from the Conversations Network) into
the post production and we were set.
A few weeks ago we broke through our one hundredth podcast and along with
that milestone we decided to expand things a bit by making the podcast more
interactive. I spent a few weeks investig... (more)
There’s been increasing interest in Infrastructure 2.0 of late that’s
encouraging to those of us who’ve been, well, pushing it uphill against the
focus on cloud computing and virtualization for quite some time now.
What’s been the most frustrating about bringing this concept to awareness
has been that cloud computing is one of the most tangible examples of both
what infrastructure 2.0 is and what it can do and virtualization is certainly
one of the larger technological drivers of Infrastructure 2.0 capable
solutions today. So despite the frustration associated with cloud computing
and virtualization stealing the stage, as it were, the spotlight is certainly
helping to bring the issues which Infrastructure 2.0 is attempting to address
into the fore. As it gains traction, one of the first challenges that must be
addressed is to define what it is we mean when we say “Inf... (more)
Stateless applications may be the long term answer to scalability of
applications in the cloud, but until then, we need a solution like sticky
sessions (persistence)
Amazon recently introduced “stickiness” to its ELB (Elastic Load
Balancing) offering. I’ve written a bit about “stickiness”, a.k.a. what
we’ve called persistence for oh, nearly ten years now, before so I won’t
reiterate again but to say, “it’s about time.” A description of why
sticky sessions is necessary was offered in the AWS blog announcing the new
feature:
Up until now each Load balancer had the freedom to forward each incoming HTTP
or TCP request to any of the EC2 instances under its purview. This resulted
in a reasonably even load on each instance, but it also meant that each
instance would have to retrieve, manipulate, and store session data for each
request without any possible benefit from lo... (more)
The US State Department on Monday said that it has ordered some non-essential
US embassy officials in Damascus and all embassy dependents to leave Syria
because of the "uncertainty and volatility" in the country.
On Wednesday Bloomberg reported that "Turkey considers it likely that
Syrians may flee the country and has designated areas for refugee camps and
hospitals in the cities of Hatay, Kilis, Gaziantep, Sanliurfa and Mardin near
the Syrian border, it said. Additional mine-sweeping equipment has been sent
to police stations in the area, it said."
Fox News: ▸ video ▸ story
As of this morning, and since July 2010, my abducted daughter Sofia Kircaali,
a US citizen, remains in Syria and in harm's way.
Feras Bankosly, M.D.
Last Known Employment Address: Elmhurst Memorial Healthcare Medical
Education: University of Aleppo - Syria
Over the Easter weekend and on Monday, th... (more)
Lacey, WA, April 06, 2013 --(PR.com)-- Beginning February 28, consumers will
be able to utilize the enhanced user experience that PIPE-FLO Professional 12
has to offer, including a new fully customizable user interface and a wide
range of workflow improvements.
“This is more significant a release than a few new features and buttons,
it’s a rethinking of how the PIPE-FLO program can fit into our customer’s
job. This rewrite is more than two years in the making and a complete
overhaul of the software’s programming code as well as user interface, will
come as a welcome surprise to some of our long-time users,” says Michael
Blondin, Chief Operating Officer at Engineered Software. “The program
rewrite allows improved program release scheduling as well as more
flexibility in adding new features in the future and opens up increased
program integration opportunities.”
PIPE-... (more)
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