The Journal on three world-changing tech trends

Posted by on Jan 30, 2012

There is an excellent article in today’s Wall Street Journal that details the technology-driven, macro shifts that are happening right now in the world of business. The three mega-trends they cite:Big data – for anyone in IT this is a “no kidding Sherlock” inclusion, but it is remarkable to step back and appreciate how quickly big data is changing the landscape and its long term...
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Ground control to major storm…

Posted by on Jan 10, 2012

Today, we announced a new customer relationship with communications and information technology giant Harris Corporation detailing that they have selected Solace to power the on-the-ground portion of a satellite weather system jointly developed by NASA (the space guys) and NOAA (the weather guys). This is part of a project called GOES-R (Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite R-Series)....
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Capturing data streams at “big data” scale

Posted by on Dec 8, 2011

Before you can break into a cold sweat about tackling the design of a system that analyzes big data volumes, you first need to be able to capture the data. More often than not, the design parameters feel like a traffic engineering problem — there are simply too many cars and not enough road. Certainly, LAN and WAN network technology introduces many limits and the largest commercial databases...
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Handling data growth as digital information doubles every 18-24 months

Posted by on Nov 3, 2011

Various studies have claimed that the amount of digital information in the world doubles every 18 to 24 months. Using the conservative 2 year estimate, that means there is 32 times as much digital data today as there was in 2001. Some of that growth is from all those cute cat videos and embarrassing Facebook photos, but much of it is valuable business data generated by automated processes within...
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Baseball, the cloud, and big data

Posted by on Sep 9, 2011

As the release of the upcoming movie Moneyball approaches, it’s inevitable that we’ll be hearing much more about baseball’s sabermetrics. ReadWriteWeb is out front of the topic with a nice article today on How Big Data and the iPad have Fundamentally Changed Baseball. This article ties together three of my favorite topics – big data analytics, cloud computing infrastructure and baseball....
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Government agencies show off their new radiological information sharing system

Posted by on Aug 24, 2011

In the past, we’ve issued a couple of press releases (here and here) about some of the work we have done with the Domestic Nuclear Detection Office (DNDO), a component of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). We’ve been working together for the past 18 months or so to deliver cross-agency sharing of real-time information about radiological activity from sensors in major cities,...
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Why sacrifice latency when using RIAs and web streaming?

Posted by on Aug 4, 2011

When capital markets firms began using rich internet applications (RIAs) built with Javascript, Flash/Flex, Silverlight and Objective C, it was accepted that applications designed for internet environments come with internet-like latencies. So capital markets firms that measure the performance of internal trading systems in the tens of microseconds got used to tens of milliseconds of latency when...
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6 markets being revolutionized by real-time streaming data

Posted by on Jul 28, 2011

It seems like forever ago that Pointcast introduced us to the first incarnation of so-called “push” technology. But aside from stock prices through online brokerages, the real-time streaming of content didn’t really take off until very recently. Even today, many people still refresh their browser to see if they’ve been outbid on eBay and reload the sports scores on their smartphone to see...
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WAN application infrastructure? Off with its head!

Posted by on Jul 22, 2011

I was watching the HBO series Game of Thrones the other night, and as the various kings and lords were forming alliances and drawing battle lines, it struck me how similar their world is to today’s capital markets. Charismatic leaders, high risks, huge rewards, complicated politics — the metaphor easily extends in a lot of directions. The parallel I want to focus on in this article is the...
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Cutting out the middleman between enterprise data and internet streaming

Posted by on Jul 8, 2011

Most internet streaming architectures consist of two very different technologies glued together at the DMZ. Inside the organization you’ll find integration-centric technology (i.e. messaging middleware) that efficiently shuttles data between internal systems. Outside the firewall, presentation-centric technology takes care of getting data in front of users via web or mobile applications. In...
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