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Why Larry hates the cloud, and my data trinity.

Posted in AmazonAWS, ETL, Palo, SQLite, cloud, excel, olap, tagged , on October 4, 2008 | No Comments »

Last week Oracle certified Amazon EC2 as a supported platform, that same week Larry Elison attacked the concept of cloud computing as pure hype. Obviously, Larry is not happy with this whole cloud thing, and I think it’s not just the threat it poses to the software industry’s traditional licensing model that worries him, rather, as Robert X. Cringely [...]

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Cloudy skies, cloudy apps…

Posted in BI, ETL, Ireland, Palo, Web2.0, cloud, data, excel, news, olap, tagged , , , on August 28, 2008 | 4 Comments »

Just back from a break in Clifden, Connemara, summer is nearly over, the kids return to school today, back to work.
Counties Galway and Mayo were like the rest of the country last week, a tad wet, but unlike the developed east of the island, flooding was not a problem; a problematic drainage area is called [...]

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NX rather than VNC for EC2 Desktop

Posted in AmazonAWS, EC2, cloud, tagged , , , on June 11, 2008 | 9 Comments »

The various Amazon EC2 AMIs that I’ve built over the last few years are getting a bit long in the tooth. Most are based on Fedora 4 and nearly all are over-burdened with software I no longer use nor require. Time for some rationalisation.
I figure I need two ‘template’ AMIs, one containing the bare [...]

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Oracle in the cloud …

Posted in AmazonAWS, EC2, cloud, tagged , , , on May 6, 2008 | 5 Comments »

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… not yet, but Bill Hodak from Oracle has just opened a thread over on the Amazon AWS developer forums, looking for feedback on the use of Oracle in AWS projects. First there was Red Hat, then this week’s announcement from Sun and now Oracle; has Amazon managed to turn itself into [...]

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Java - at the eye of a perfect storm

Posted in ETL, Java, Palo, cloud, tagged , , , , , , , , on March 11, 2008 | 3 Comments »

The “perfect storm” of ubiquitous broadband, powerful and cheap laptops, virtual machines, cloud-based services/infrastructure and open-source software is changing the nature of IT in a way that’s reminiscent of the revolution started by the IBM PC. Although a lot of emphasis has been put on the influence of consumer-focused services on [...]

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CouchDB = IBM’s SimpleDB and S3 ?

Posted in AmazonAWS, S3, SimpleDB, cloud, data, tagged , , on January 3, 2008 | 2 Comments »

What if you’re a major player in the IT world and suddenly the internet’s equivalent of your local bookshop releases a mould-breaking cloud-based database service, SimpleDB. This is on top of Amazon’s highly acclaimed document data store service, S3!
Well, if you’re IBM you hire Damien Katz the person behind CouchDB. I think 2008 [...]

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