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Exploring NoSQL: Couchbase

Posted on April 1, 2012 by

In February 2011, Membase, Inc. and CouchOne merged to combine the strengths of their two open-source NoSQL projects, Membase and CouchDB. The joint team released Couchbase 1.8 in January, 2012 as an upgrade to Membase 1.7. Version 2.0 is now … Continue reading →

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Eventual Consistency: How Eventual? How Consistent?

Posted on March 1, 2012 by

In my last post on Riak, I discussed how an application developer could use the values of N (number of replication nodes), R (read quorum), and W (write quorum) to fine tune the availability, latency, and consistency trade-offs of a … Continue reading →

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New Year’s Reflection

Posted on January 1, 2011 by

With the New Year upon us, indulge me for a moment as I try to figure out what this blog is all about. It’s said that blogging, like all writing, takes us on a path of self-discovery, meaning that this … Continue reading →

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If the web were a structured dataset,…

Posted on September 15, 2010 by

I enjoyed the presentation YY Lee gave at the Marketing and Search SIGs joint meeting last week at LinkedIn. For a description of the presentation, see my article on the event. What struck me was how much I had taken … Continue reading →

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Ten Rules for Writing a Successful Business Book

Posted on August 27, 2010 by

1. Announce that globalization, new technologies, and demanding customers have fundamentally altered the world of business. 2. Quote Peter Drucker as if he agreed with your ideas. Great minds think alike. 3. Simplify all prior business ideas to caricatures. Remove … Continue reading →

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An Agile Approach to Continuous Process Improvement

Posted on August 3, 2010 by

Processes drive business success, define the brand, and determine the bottom line. The innovative organization embraces ongoing change, recognizing that no single process improvement project will fix a process for all time. Rather, an organization must continuously improve its processes … Continue reading →

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Virtual Security

Posted on July 29, 2010 by

Kelly Robertson, CEO of 9Proof Americas, spoke on virtual security last night at VMware in Palo Alto during the monthly meeting of the SDForum Cloud Services SIG. He explained a few special security issues that should be considered when using … Continue reading →

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Escape the Buy-Build Dilemma with xRM

Posted on July 28, 2010 by

xRM stands for eXtensible Relationship Management, and it amounts to a powerful platform for enabling agility. It means an escape from the buy-build dilemma that has long bogged down IT departments. It means you can satisfy business requirements at the … Continue reading →

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The Innovation that is Azure, the First Cloud OS

Posted on July 17, 2010 by

It’s funny that so much literature in IT trade magazines depicts Microsoft as the aging champion of on-premise software, struggling in vain to hold back the tide of younger, more nimble cloud players of the likes of Google and Salesforce.com. … Continue reading →

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