At first, she was all "I don't need no schoolin'!" But that didn't last long.And then she was all, "I wanna be just like my dad!" But that didn't last long.And then she was all, "I'm the biggest girl, so I'm the boss of you!" But that didn't last long.And then she was like, "Look out world, here I come!" And THAT did last a long, long time. … [Read more...]
Archives for July 2011
Getting Ahead of the Curve – Big Data
I have to confess that I'm incredibly excited about BigData. I haven't been this excited about new innovations in IT since relational databases first appeared on the scene early in my career. But what is BigData? Back in those days, I can still feel the echos of adrenaline when I was hired to work on a NASA project that would involve over 100Mb of data. ONE HUNDRED MEGABYTES! Good grief, that was fantastically huge to us on the team. (That database was over 130Mb when I finally moved on to another project). And remember - PC software was installed using 640Kb floppy disks at the time. … [Read more...]
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