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- H-Store: Complete destruction of the old DBMS order?
- Guest Post: Curt Monash reports from the front lines of a database revolution. Mike Stonebraker created much of the database management industry. Now he wants to blow it up. Via a project called H-Store [pdf file], he proposes to manage high-end OLTP databases entirely in...
- Tags: Disk, DBMS, Brown University, OLTP, RAM, H-Store, I-Store, H-Store Team, Databases, Storage, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Hardware, Curt Monash
- Blog posts 2008-02-20
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- Pigs is pigs and data is data
- Pigs is pigs and data is datareal meaning of statisticsThe whole problem of overal testing and of data collection is that eaming lies on statistics and that you must not think in terms of individuals when regarding those. You cannot understand why one individual child failed the test exploiting statistics;...
- Tags: Taxes, Free trade, public school
- Discussion threads 2008-06-17
- Nanorobots to improve health care
- Using nanorobots to deliver drugs and fight diseases is not a new idea check here or there. Of course, nanorobots floating inside our bodies to improve our health are still years away. However, an international team of American and Australian researchers is developing a nanorobot hardware architecture for medical defense...
- Tags: Software, 3D, Protein, Biomedical, Health Care, Hardware Architecture, Healthcare, Nanotechnology, Emerging Technologies, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2008-05-19
- Twitter turmoil: when does it end?
- The news that Twitter's lead architect Blaine Cook and Lee Mighdoll, VP engineering have left should be no surprise. Let's be blunt. Despite the neutral language used in various posts, they were fired. One has to wonder whether Jack Dorsey is next, especially as he doesn't seem to understand the...
- Tags: Twitter, Project Management, Tools & Techniques, Manufacturing, Strategy, It Operations, It service Management, Management, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2008-04-24
- Sears and the dishwasher that didn't
- This is a customer service horror story that has a happy ending. After twelve years of service, our dishwasher finally gave up and died. We looked all over town to find the best dishwasher that would fit in the space currently occupied by the old one and, of course, at...
- Tags: Sears Roebuck & Co., Person, Machine, Sales Strategy, Sales Force Management, Sales, Dan Kusnetzky
- Blog posts 2008-04-10
- News to know: Black Hat; VoIP design flaws; Vista SP1; Apple
- Notable headlines: Nate McFeters: Black Hat, Day 1: Cracking GSM and skimming ATMs George Ou: Design flaw in wireless VoIP handsets endanger the enterprise Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft fleshes out small-, mid-size Windows server plans Microsoft suspends distribution of Vista SP1...
- Tags: Black Hat, VoIP, Microsoft Windows Vista, Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows Vista SP1, Flaw, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Digital Cameras, Digital Photography, Operating Systems, Software, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-02-21
- Vertica brings higher speeds to ad hoc queries
- Michael Stonebraker has a history of database breakthroughs. He was a founder of Ingres, Illustra, Cohera and StreamBase Systems. He also served as CTO of Informix and helped develop Postgres. His most recent creation is Vertica, which just launched version 2.o of its database. The claims...
- Tags: Michael Stonebraker, Storage, Databases, Hardware, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Dan Farber
- Blog posts 2008-02-19
- Nanotechnology-based self-cleaning fabrics
- A recent American Chemical Society's Weekly PressPac briefly describes how Australian researchers have used nanotechnology to develop 'self-cleaning' wool and silk fabrics (scroll to article #4 in the PressPac). The researchers 'prepared wool fabrics with and without a nanoparticle coating composed of anatase titanium dioxide, a substance that is known...
- Tags: Silk, American Chemical Society, Fabric, Fiber, Nanotechnology, Network Technology, Semiconductors, Emerging Technologies, Networking, Hardware, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2008-02-12
- Zimbra adds offline access, instant messaging
- Zimbra adds offline access, instant messagingI run Zimbra 5.0.2 open source...edition on top of SuSE 10.2. It is one of the highest quality open source program that I've used. A lot of OSS programs lack the sophistication you find in proprietary offerings. But Zimbra doesn't have those shortcomings.You maybe...
- Tags: Instant messaging, OPEN SOURCE, IM, hardware requirement, Zimbra, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2008-02-05
- Nanorobots for drug delivery?
- The idea of using nanorobots to deliver drugs and fight diseases such as cancers is not new check this story for example. But there are still lots of issues to solve before nanorobots can diagnose our diseases and treat them. Now, an international team of researchers has designed a software...
- Tags: 3D, Researcher, Protein, Environment, Cone, Sensor, Nanorobot, Nanotechnology, Semiconductors, Emerging Technologies, Hardware, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2007-12-08
- Making Data Security a Top Priority for Leading IT Provider to the Airline Industry
- A new backup system for more than 380 servers? Anyone wanting to introduce such a system for a financial services provider needs, above all, experience, discipline, and accurate time management. The project managers at Lufthansa Systems and Symantec Corporation were able to contribute all this and were able to ensure...
- Tags: Symantec Corp., Information Technology, Industry, Lufthansa, Data Security, Security
- Case studies 2007-12-06
- No charges in MySpace suicide
- No charges in MySpace suicideWhat a Crock![i]He said the people involved are probably suffering plenty already. “The loss of a life of a person that they once talked to as a friend, I’m sure, is just twisting them all up inside,” Banas said.[/i]I can almost guarantee you that this is...
- Tags: INTERNET, pocketbook, Megan, suicide, MySpace
- Discussion threads 2007-12-03
- Facebook's Orwellian customer service
- Facebook's Orwellian customer serviceFacebook customer serviceI can really sympathize with this story. I had a similar experience with Facebook customer service. I posted a flyer for my business and received a curt reply back saying that I had broken the terms of use. I read the terms of use and...
- Tags: Product marketing, Customer relationship management (CRM), Facebook, Orwellian customer service, Facebook customer service
- Discussion threads 2007-11-01
- TomTom GO 720
- Portable navigation systems are a dime a dozen these days. A lot of the models offer many of the same functions, such as text- and voice-guided turn-by-turn directions and millions of points of interest, and they're all beginning to look alike with competitive pricing. So there's a real need for...
- Tags: GPS, Keyboards, keyboard, TomTom, TomTom Go, TomTom GO 720, GO 720
- Product reviews 2007-08-31
- Why do organizations adopt virtualization technology?
- Why do organizations adopt virtualization technology?To borrow a phrase from Ballmer...Developers, developers, developers, developers... When I'm onsite at a customer location in Germany and someone from Michigan calls with a software problem, I can fire up three virtual images on my laptop that are exact replicas of their software...
- Tags: Storage management, Utility computing, Servers, Mainframes, Storage, virtualization, server
- Discussion threads 2007-08-21
- Software to ease divorce pains
- If you went through a divorce during your life, you know it can be painful. Who will keep the house or the kids? How the money will be distributed? Even if professional mediators are involved, the process can really be unpleasant. According to LiveScience, two programs developed by Australian researchers...
- Tags: Software, Decision Support System, Negotiation, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2007-08-07
- ActiveX flaw project hits Microsoft Office 2000
- ActiveX flaw project hits Microsoft Office 2000If this is the best they can come up with...I would say this is huge vindication for Microsoft. So they found a flaw in a 7 year old product. Wow. Care to guess how many security issues you could find with MacOS9? Hehe, it...
- Tags: ActiveX/COM/COM+/DCOM, SECURITY, Middleware, flaw, Mac Jihadists, Microsoft Office 2000, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Office, Microsoft Taliban, ActiveX
- Discussion threads 2007-05-24
- Siebel 2.0: The end of Salesforce.com
- Siebel 2.0: The end of Salesforce.comI guess I'm not part of the 90%My company uses Siebel. It may be good for selling refrigerators, but it it HARDLY even ADEQUATE for complex, multi-month rollout cycles of IT gear, software and services.I'd be better off with post-it notes and Lotus 1-2-3...
- Tags: Customer relationship management (CRM), Advertising & Promotion, Sales force management, Enterprise software, DreamFactory, CRM, SFDC, Salesforce.com Inc., Apex, Siebel Systems Inc., sf.com
- Discussion threads 2007-05-23
- Lasers for video surveillance
- Researchers at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory ORNL have built a new optical surveillance based on lasers. Their Laser-Based Item Monitoring System LBIMS is designed to protect high-value items in high security environments. It's also supposed to respect your privacy and be the equivalent of cameras with a 10,000-megapixel resolution....
- Tags: Defense &, Security, Engineering &, Innovation, Science &, Nature
- Blog posts 2007-05-18
- Leading Silicon Valley thinker warns of problems
- It was a very dull 60th anniversary celebration for SRI International, one of the worlds largest contract research institutes. Spun out of Stanford University, it lives in the heart of Silicon Valley and started a long time before there was a Silicon Valley. It has contributed a massive amount of...
- Tags: Silicon Valley
- Blog posts 2006-11-07
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