As a writer, I vehemently oppose piracy, but PIPA and SOPA are not the way to stop it. We live in a country where we are innocent until proven guilty and have freedom of speech, These are two fundamentally American concepts that these laws erode. The 1998 Digital Millennium Copyright Act already makes copyright infringement …

Borrowing or renting space on someone else’s cloud doesn’t relinquish your responsibility to protect your data. “The cloud,” may evoke visions of carefree frolicking in a magical, ephemeral place filled with lights, swaying flowers and harps playing in the background. Surely, your data is safe in this environment. Marketers and sales teams proclaim, “Have an …

Since June when Yahoo! released kicked its baby birdy….err….elephant out of the nest (or what elephant babies sleep in) the information management market has been patiently waitng to see what HortonWorks would bring to the rapidly growing NoSQL market. Unfortunately, it happened to be school yard fight with competitor Cloudera that went a little like, …

NoSQL is a hot topic. If you are a technologist, unless you have been trapped in the basement with your red swingline and no internet connection for a year or two, you’ve heard about NoSQL. The technology was thrust into the spotlight around 2008 due to adoption by internet giants such as Facebook, Google and …

Oracle’s NoSQL Change of Heart The team at Oracle has been doing some thinking and decided that maybe, just maybe, they were a tiny bit harsh in their assessment of NoSQL. Just a few months ago, the company released a 15-page white paper,  Debunking the NoSQL Hype (now conveniently removed from the Oracle site),which explains …

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