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"The Xen hypervisor has been widely used in enterprise data centers because of its clean hardware abstraction for elastic, scalable distributed systems," said Mike Olson, CEO of Cloudera. "That has made it a good foundation for our customers doing large-scale data analysis using the Cloudera Distribution for Hadoop. The Xen Cloud Platform initiative is a great next step in making an open source cloud platform for the enterprise a reality." - Amr Awadallah

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White ... tumultuous water - Amr Awadallah

White ... tumultuous water - Amr Awadallah

Posted using BDelicious - Amr Awadallah

Posted using BDelicious - Amr Awadallah

Google is watching you all the time. - Amr Awadallah

ACE is voicing both appreciation for its close relations with Avid and frustration with what it perceives as snubs from Apple, maker of Final Cut Pro, Avid's biggest rival. - Amr Awadallah

A single mega-colony of ants has colonised much of the world, scientists have discovered. - Amr Awadallah

Customers we interviewed for our GigaOM Pro research note (subscription required) tend to focus more on cost per GB in the current economic climate, and less on cost per Input/Output Operations Per Second (IOPS), which is where flash SSD excels. - Amr Awadallah

This leads into some questions regarding Cisco's strategy, based on the idea that hardware should sell applications, as well as IBM's strategy, where services have often sold software and hardware. The future is of course a mix of all of these strategies, but it's not clear that another company is as well positioned as Oracle. - Amr Awadallah

Using body mass index as a measure, the study examined 11,326 adult Canadians over 12 years and found that overweight people were 17 per cent less likely to die than people with normal weight. Normal weight is defined as having a BMI of between 18.5 and 25, with those classified as overweight having a BMI of between 25 and 30 - Amr Awadallah

Greylock, who is represented on the board by partner Aneel Bhusri, now owns just 3.9%, worth $74 million at the current offer price. - Amr Awadallah

worldwide storage sales are still constrained by cost, not by absolute limits on the amounts of data enterprises would like to store. - Amr Awadallah

Which we believe means that MapReduce is the new, big hammer, and as developers start looking around, every dataset starts looking like a nail. - Amr Awadallah

The Xerox one is subtle, but very clever. I also like Best Buy and Ferrari's is priceless :) - Amr Awadallah

In fact, it’s a good rule of thumb to know that white people like anything that old writers and artists liked: typewriters, journals, suicide, heroin, and trains are just a few examples - Amr Awadallah

what is being copied from your site? - Amr Awadallah

If you were job hunting in this economy, where would you look? One word: Data. Right now, we have the ability to effectively instrument vast portions of products, businesses, industries, and even society. It's scary but it's also a tremendous opportunity because the insights for making improvements -- instead of taking years to discern and incorporate -- can be discovered and used almost in real-time. We have only scratched the surface, and the potential impact really is unbounded because the value discovered with data can often be multiplied a billion-fold because of scale. - Amr Awadallah

Dennis Quan, director of autonomic computing with IBM, said that future efforts will likely involve Tivoli’s Workload Scheduler — possibly to manage actual compute jobs running in a cloud - Amr Awadallah

comparison of VCS systems by the python folks, very interesting. - Amr Awadallah

har:///user/hadoop/foo.har - Amr Awadallah

What was achieved? - Amr Awadallah

search and replace on steroids. - Amr Awadallah

data dump for twitter - Amr Awadallah

Sixty-five percent of respondents said - again - that other religions could lead to eternal life - Amr Awadallah

Accel's Richard Wong demurred from making a prediction, but sounded pessimistic for 2009: "We are working extremely hard to ensure that few of our portfolio companies will need major funding events through 2009. We are going to be very cautious." - Amr Awadallah

many users try the software for free but will upgrade to a commercial version when moving to serious production because the commercial version saves time (at the expense of money). It's a fair trade-off, and one that I should have acknowledged sooner. Mea culpa. - Amr Awadallah

both of obama's books made the list. - Amr Awadallah

ironic! - Amr Awadallah