Thinking about Data Gravity
Dave McCrory introduced his idea of Data Gravity with a blog post back in 2010. The core idea was — and is — interesting, and got some traction from sites like ReadWriteWeb, ZDNet and GigaOM. More recently, Data Gravity featured in this year’s EMC World keynote. But beyond the observation that large or valuable agglomerations of data [...]
Day #3 => DeployCon && Enterprise && Data Gravity
A lot of things were mentioned during the panels and sessions during DeployCon. Some things I agree with, some things I don’t. The “Web Way” There is one prevalent thing that came up over and over, the “web way”. What’s the web way? It is building horizontally, scalable, with RESTful APIs, and applications at an [...]
Google Wants More Of Your Data On Their Cloud But …..
Google today announced that it is opening up their cloud infrastructure to let you store and process your geospatial data. They announced a new web based offering called Google Earth Builder, available in the later part of this year, which will let organizations upload their geospatial data to Google Cloud and let the employees view [...]
