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eFoundations is a blog written by Andy Powell and Pete Johnston from Eduserv's Research and Innovation Group.
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RSS Feed- Big Data and implications for storage: Rob Anderson10 May 2012Keynote from Rob Anderson, CTO EMEA, Isilon Storage Division, EMC Over two years ago EMC became very interested in this space. Size isn’t the most important point about Big Data. There is an enornmous amount of data and growth rates are high. We already have more than we can analyse. Most of it isn’t in [...]
- Andy Powell: welcome and introduction10 May 20122012 is being spoken about as the year of big data. Andy hopes that this event doesn’t fall into the ‘hype’ that’s being seen in the industry. He hopes today will be different What do we mean by Big Data? We’ve taken as the starting point Ed Dumbill’s piece from O’Reilly Radar. Andy thinks it’s [...]
- SQLBits X – SQL Server 2012 launch2 April 2012Last week I headed up to London to take part in SQLBits X (29-31 March). Amongst other things, it was the official UK technical launch for SQL Server 2012 and also the largest SQL Event in Europe. The conference saw the largest gathering of SQL Server Product Team members outside of North America and the SQL Server [...]
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RSS Feed- Big Data - size doesn't matter, it's the way you use it that counts18 May 2012...at least, that's what they tell me! Here's my brief take on this year's Eduserv Symposium, Big Data, big deal?, which took place in London last Thursday and which was, by all the accounts I've seen and heard, a pretty...
- Big data, big deal?2 April 2012Some of you may have noticed that Eduserv's annual symposium is happening on May 10. Once again, we're at the Royal College of Physicians in London and this year we are looking at big data, appropriate really... since 2012 has...
- MOOCing about with SaaS21 March 2012I've been taking part in a MOOC, or Massively Open Online Course, over the last 4 weeks or so. The course in question is called Software Engineering for SaaS and is being offered by the University of California, Berkeley under...