Updated: 2012-04-24 09:40:31
I visited my clients at Cloudera and Hortonworks last week, along with scads of other companies. A few of the takeaways were: Cloudera now has 220 employees. Cloudera now has over 100 subscription customers. Over the past year, Cloudera has more than doubled in size by every reasonable metric. Over half of Cloudera’s customers use [...]
Updated: 2012-04-24 08:43:48
I had one of “those” trips last week: 20 meetings, a number of them very multi-hour. A broken laptop. Flights that arrived 10:30ish Sunday night and left 7:00 Saturday morning. So please pardon me if things are a bit disjointed … I’ve argued for a while that: All human-generated data should be retained. The more [...]
Updated: 2012-04-16 19:29:25
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Updated: 2012-04-12 15:35:34
The Massachusetts Library System hosts a free gathering about linking libraries, communities, and the news on Friday, April 27, from 9:30 am through 4 pm, in the library system’s Marlborough office. Advance registration is required. The Mass. Library System partners with the New England News Forum and Journalism That Matters for a one day event. [...]
Updated: 2012-04-11 15:17:00
On Thursday (4/12) evening at the MIT Media Lab, S. Craig Watkins from the University of Texas at Austin will present what he’s learned about the digital practices of black and Latino youth from studying the social and digital media behaviors of young people. Craig Watkins: “The Digital Edge: Exploring the Digital Practices of Black [...]
Updated: 2012-04-07 16:24:16
So, yeah, well, I’m going to be typing a bit about BarCamp Boston 7 this weekend. More people have registered this year than in the past, quite possibly by a few hundred people. We organizers are really excited about that. I will lead a jobs session this afternoon at 2 pm. The proposed session on [...]
Updated: 2012-04-06 04:12:29
I first became an analyst in 1981. And so I was around for the early days of the movement from batch to interactive computing, as exemplified by: The rise of minicomputers as mainframe alternatives (first VAXen, then the ‘nix systems that did largely supplant mainframes). The move from batch to interactive computing even on mainframes, [...]
Updated: 2012-04-06 01:58:41
BarCamp Boston, a technology gathering organized by attendees, is this weekend: Saturday, 4/7, and Sunday, 4/8. Rumor has it about 700 people have registered so far. Why miss an opportunity to network with and learn from Boston area tech folks and get a terrific t-shirt? (T-shirt is a bit of a pun. To learn why, [...]
Updated: 2012-04-05 03:43:28
When Conor O’Mahony briefed me about DB2 10, he kept commenting that cool features he was talking about could be found in all editions of DB2, even the free one. So I asked what the limitations were on free DB2. He researched the matter and got back to me — and they sounded like what [...]
Updated: 2012-04-04 05:46:47
Shortly before Tuesday’s launch of DB2 10, IBM’s Conor O’Mahony checked in for a relatively non-technical briefing.* More precisely, this is about DB2 for “distributed” systems, aka LUW (Linux/Unix/Windows); some of the features have already been in the mainframe version of DB2 for a while. IBM is graciously permitting me to post the associated DB2 [...]
Updated: 2012-04-03 15:38:48
The March 22 Kojo Nnamdi show featuring CEO of The Washington Post Company Donald Graham and The State of Things’ interview with University of North Carolina journalism dean Susan King provide terrific tales from journalism’s past and some thoughts on the direction of the profession. Graham’s grandfather bought the struggling Post in the 1930s and [...]
