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2009/10/302009/10/30

Journal: Real-Time Analytics, Bye to SQL, Oracle, SAP

Cloud Analytics: Dataflow versus Databases Realtime analytics drives a migration away from databases to more scalable parallel dataflow architectures. Bill McColl, 29 October 2009 Over the past year or so, a new movement, the “NoSQL” movement has emerged promoting the advantages of doing a variety of kinds of analytics without using any relational database technologies …

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2009/10/302009/10/30

Journal: Interview with C. K. Prahalad

Five years ago, C.K. Prahalad published a book titled, The Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid, in which he argues that multinational companies not only can make money selling to the world’s poorest, but also that undertaking such efforts is necessary as a way to close the growing gap between rich and poor countries. Key …

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2009/10/252009/10/25

Search: Gorilla with Kitten

Here you go. This was used for a panel in 1999 at the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) for the annual meeting of the Security Affairs Support Association (SASA), today called something else. The photo of the Gorilla with Kitten links to The Gorilla Foundation that has nurtured Koko the Gorilla and others. Below from their …

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2009/10/232009/10/24

Journal: Real-Time Snake Oil

Friday Rant: Spend Management Snake Oil October 23, 2009 Jason Busch During his talk, Jim suggested that snake oil purveyors in the supply risk market fall into a number of categories, including “existing vendors with incomplete or partial solutions (spun as the real-deal), market information packaged and resold as real-time intelligence (which it’s not), dashboards …

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2009/10/212009/10/21

Journal: Haggle, Freenet, TOOZL, and Syllable

Clean-slate networking for mobile devices 2007 Abstract: Haggle is a layerless networking architecture for mobile devices. It is motivated by the infrastructure dependence of applications such as email and web browing, even in situations where infrastructure is not necessary to accomplish the end user goal, e.g. when the destination is reachable by ad hoc neighborhood …

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2009/10/092009/10/14

Journal: US IC Re-Discovers the Davies J-Curve

15,000 Affected By Intelligence Community Server Shutdown Atlantic POLITICS Oct 8 2009, 9:53 am Marc Ambinder EXTRACT: A CIA analyst who works on open source projects with state and local law enforcement officials said that uGov provided the only secure way to provide them with critical homeland security information. Several Defense Intelligence Agency employees wrote …

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2009/10/052009/10/05

Journal: On Experts, Lies, Climate, & Security

October 05, 2009 UN Climate Reports: They Lie By Marc Sheppard Speaking on the Senate floor in July of 2003, Senator James Inhofe (R-Okla) rightly called the threat of catastrophic global warming the “greatest hoax ever perpetrated on the American people.” The Cybersecurity Myth by Bob Crigely The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) said this week …

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