Up, Out, Centralized, and Decentralized

Posted on July 28, 2009 by Randy Bias

It can be confusing to understand how to scale computing systems, but it’s not rocket science.  There are really only two main axes of scale: out and up.  Closely related to the axis of scale is the general type of … Continue reading →

Posted in Cloud Computing | Tagged centralization, cloud, commoditization, databases, decentralization, enterprise, hadoop, infrastructure, Internet Operations, open, scaling, sharding | 5 Comments

Hadoop 101 by Chris Wensel

Posted on June 22, 2009 by Randy Bias

What conversation about cloud computing is complete without a mention of big data, distributing processing, and distributed databases?  There is a recent trend away from relying exclusively on the traditional relational database for everything.  Newer technologies like BigTable and Hadoop … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Big Data, cloud, databases, hadoop, scaling, sharding | 6 Comments