On Privacy, and Software Vendor’s Access to Customer Data
A mini firestorm broke out recently when 37Signals posted about their 2011 growth statistics. As part of the post, 37Signals told the world that the 100 millionth file to be uploaded to their software was the picture of a cat. Naturally those who subscribe to conspiracy theories got all fired
VoltDB releases Their New Version Targeting Better Performance And Durability
VoltDB, an in-memory database designed by well known database researchers like Michael Stonebraker, last week announced the release of their new version with features focussed at performance, durability and easy out of the box experience. One of the reasons VoltDB came into my radar was due to their open source roots. In the age of [...]
Enter The Data Hugger
At the recent Gluecon event in Colorado, I was fortunate enough to run into my friend Sam Ramji from Apigee and took the opportunity to grab some time with him after he had delivered his excellent panel presentation which was intriguingly entitled “Globalization, Black Swans, and APIs”. It’s always great to bounce ideas and share [...]
Structure '09 Panel: From Dataspaces To Databases
The first panel is about databases in this Cloud era. The panel is moderated by Jason Hoffman from Joyent. Panelists include Tasso Argyros of Aster Data Systems, Jeff Hammerbacher from Cloudera, Doug Judd from Zvents, Avinash Lakshman from Facebook and Geir Magnusson Jr. from Gilt Groupe. Some of the takeaways from the panel include RDBMS [...]
SaaS Application Architecture is a Good Fit for Enterprises
When applications are designed (On-Premise or On-Demand), they are typically architected based on the number of users they are intended to serve as the architecture vastly varies based on the type/size of deployment. The architecture of a Cloud application like Gmail for example is majorly different from the architecture of an on-premise application like Exchange. [...]
Zoho shakes the SaaS world with CloudSQL
Zoho is the sponsor of this blog but this is an independent analysis done by me based on the same information Zoho shared with other bloggers. Zoho today announced the availability of CloudSQL, a middleware that allows Zoho customers to access their data on Zoho SaaS applications using SQL queries. This sits between the Zoho [...]
Appistry – Putting Larry Ellison Out of Work
When Larry Ellison trashes cloud computing, the best response will be to put him out of work. You might call this crazy but in the words of Robert X. Cringely, it is just doable. He suggests that cloud computing can get back at Larry by saying “No Database”. We're entering the age of cloud computing, [...]
