23.9.2008 von pit.

The Register just posted an article about storage vendors claiming as usual the best storage array’s for Oracle DB. They actually made a failure by linking to Pillar instead of pillardata. I looked recently at Pillardata, they were founded with Lary Ellison backing them. Nevertheless they promise very good utilisation values and builtin QOS via the Axiom box. They use SATA drives and the performnace numbers they mention look quit well. recently they also introduced a smaller axiom box (300) for SME market. I don’t have actual price information, but I like the concept of higher utilisation. another box to look at is Atrato’s Velocity 1000. EMC’s DMX-4 is definitly in a different pricerange. They provide whitepapers with excellent numbers, but I remember that storagemojo explained the SSD products they actually use in more detail. He’s actually one of the consultants who talks about the numbers and offers (updated) pricelists. I follow his blog frequently

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22.9.2008 von pit.

Infobright released it’s ICE software. They also announced plans with jaspersoft for a software bundle.. The blog mentions other free candidates like monetDB. It will be interesting to see how Businessobjects (SAP), Cognos (IBM) and Oracle respond to this. Until now a thought that Greenplum and netezza will force them to react, but the market seems to be quicker (or not)…

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22.9.2008 von pit.

Cisco announced that they will aquire jabber Inc. Jabber which was the protocol name before it was adopted by the IETF as XMPP (extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol), is an open XML technology for real-time communication. Due to it’s open nature you find different (and many OSS) implementations for various clients and servers. I follow from time to time the progress of ejabberd, but it really depends what you have already in your environment established, so it worthwhile to take a look at metajacks article and the answers. the statement about being a memory hog seems to be much better with the recent versions. a worthwhile read about mcroblogging integration is again by Jack Moffit

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20.9.2008 von pit.

only readable with IE (plugin). The authors purpose is to highlight some of those important discrepancies, as a request to enable the manufacturs to update their technology. He doesn’t explain it in every detail, but enough to get a grasp on how to …..

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13.9.2008 von pit.

now look at this from Plasticlogic and wait for first half of 2009.

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8.9.2008 von pit.

It’s amazing how many charting/graphing solution popped up in the last 2 years. But I still have some I’m missing. Nevertheless I’m getting old and i find myself quite often digging for the URL i currently have in mind. due to this, I thought it’s worthwile to list some inhere.
Jacob Gude at Six Revisions shows some javascript solutions. jerome (and others, but I already knew this links) pointed to OECD Factblog, about how to publish charts in websites. One of my personal favorit is created by timepedia, take a look at chronoscope. Take also a look at Ray’s Google I/O session in his blog, it’s definitly worthwhile. Take also a look in the about page, it lists a lot of links to must know people/projects. What also comes very handy in my eyes is the ploticus project and of course AT&T’s graphviz package. Vida Hokstad combined graphviz with traceroute and a cool XSL stylesheet to present it more pleasant. A good collection of Information Architects resources was collected by the dynamic diagram people. If you’re looking for ideas on visualisation, one of the best sources is visualcomplexity. another source of how helpful visualization are in real world problems can be found at secviz. Flowingdata is also worth to mention. For network visualization, caida is always a good source to look at. en espagnol, pero puedes encontrar articulos de usabilidad aqui, (some articles are also in english). other impessing projects can be found at MIT’s simile site. When it comes to data mining, take a look at Rapid-I. ElderCare has assembled a list of visualization research to share .

enough for today, I’ll add some soon. visuale

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8.9.2008 von pit.

Isn’t that funny

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5.9.2008 von pit.

30 programming language authors reference

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1.9.2008 von pit.

The Energy superstore is a green blog, which I hope will grow with a lot of useful hints about possibilities for saving our limited ressources. I found them via the doFollowers, a new (beta) directory site. They apply a voting concept with a fresh style of presenting blogs. That said, I don’t see a real value for the premium service, at least at the moment, but wish both the best.

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