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  • OSCON: Project Sputnik Explained + Coverage recap

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    The week before last I had a fantastic time at OSCON, seeing old friends and making new ones.  As always, the hallway track was the one I found most enlightening. On the second day we announced that project Sputnik would be going from project to product in the fall and got a fantastic response (see…

  • Hadoop World, a belated summary

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    With O’Reilly’s big data conference Strata coming up in just a couple of weeks, I thought I might as well get around to finally writing up my notes from Hadoop World .  The event, which was put on by Cloudera, was held last November 8-9 in New York city.   There were over 1,400 attendees from…

  • Depression good for Cloud

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    Yesterday, Nat Torkington had an interesting post on O’Reilly Radar (not to be confused with Radar O’Reilly) entitled “The effect of the Depression on Technology.” Whether I would classify what we’re in as a “Depression” or not, is beside the point.  The economy is definitely not doing well and folks are spooked.  Seeing the glass…