Breakfast Links 28.10.2008
* AWS is Enterprise Ready
CloudAve summarizes the current state of Amazon’s Cloud Computing services in terms of prices, support and technologies. Amazon’s EC2 and S3 is a really exciting alternative (to hardware machines) in the large-scale processing field because of the support of Hadoop MapReduce! For german readers, there is also an [...]
Posts under ‘Breakfast Links’
Amazon AWS is Enterprise Ready
Gartner on Top 10 Technologies
Breakfast Links 27.10.2008
* Gartner Identifies the Top 10 Strategic Technologies for 2009
Gartner analysts presented the top 10 strategic technologies for 2009 and the next three years on the Symposium/ITxpo last week. Beside Virtualization and Cloud Computing they also identified Web-Oriented Architectures and with it EnterpriseMashups as growing technologies. After mashups for the web were growing [...]
Lucene + Hadoop + Zookeeper = Katta
Breakfast Links 23.10.2008
* katta and hadoop survey slides
Katta is a project by 101tec.com a consulting and software development company specialized on large-scale data processing and information management software. Katta adds grid support to Apache Lucene with a combination of Hadoop and Zookeeper (which is going to be moved into Hadoop).
* Mozenda: SaaS Data Extraction
Mozenda is [...]
Accenture Redefines Enterprise Search
Breakfast Links 22.10.2008
* In Search of Answers: Enterprise Search and the High-Performance Business
Accenture just released an article on Enterprise Search and defines it as it is, as also what is coming in future like multimedia search capabilities and sentiment analysis.
* Classifying Images Part 2: Basic Attributes
As Accenture already defined multimedia search capabilities of being one [...]
Yotify Social Search Engine
Breakfast Links 15.10.2008
* Yotify: A Social Search Engine
Stephen Arnold reviews the Social Search Engine Yotify regarding to the article on the Technology Review magazine.
Lucene 2.4.0 released
Lucene 2.4.0 was released today, important new features are:
New RAM-based index for much faster searching than with RAMDirectory
Machine or OS crash while writing will no longer corrupt the whole index
Delete documents by query with new IndexWriter
Ability to define a search timeout
and more…
You can read the detailed changelog here: Lucene Change Log (by the way, like [...]
Anonymizing Google’s Server Log Data
Breakfast Links 13.10.2008
* Anonymizing Google’s Server Log Data – How is it going?
Article on Google and Log Data anonymization and a great idea of a privacy dashboard to tell users which information is stored, for how long and even offer possibilities to delete such data.