Thursday, May 19, 2011

Why Sam Madden is wrong about peer review

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Yesterday my former PhD advisor, Sam Madden, wrote a blog post consisting of a passionate defense for the status quo in the peer review pro...
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Monday, March 28, 2011

Why I'm doing a start-up pre-tenure

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Thanks to the tireless work of the entire Hadapt team, we had a very successful launch at GigaOM's Structure Big Data conference last we...
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Tuesday, February 15, 2011

Why I no longer trust EMC [Update: maybe they are not so bad]

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[Update: After publishing this blog post I received a very pleasant phone call from two representatives from Mozy informing me they had mana...
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Thursday, December 30, 2010

Machine vs. human generated data

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Curt Monash has recently been discussing the differences between machine-generated data and human-generated data, and trying to define thes...
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Tuesday, August 31, 2010

The problems with ACID, and how to fix them without going NoSQL

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(This post is coauthored by Alexander Thomson and Daniel Abadi ) It is a poorly kept secret that NoSQL is not really about eliminating SQL ...
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Monday, August 2, 2010

Thoughts on Kickfire’s apparent demise

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There have been some recent conflicting reports on the future prospects of Kickfire’s analytical database technology. Forbes reported a coup...
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Tuesday, July 6, 2010

Quick thoughts on EMC acquiring Greenplum

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EMC announced today that they are acquiring Greenplum. Below are the first thoughts that crossed my mind when I heard about this deal. Cong...
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