GemFire and Enterprise Data Fabrics

There is clearly a lot of buzz surrounding “big data”. For the up and coming projects featuring: – Auditing – Messaging – Archiving – Notifications We need to keep a close eye on the tools and technologies available. Spring have just released a ne…

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What is Hadoop

The article below provides a good overview of the Hadoop framework and of the tools in its eco-system. http://strata.oreilly.com/2012/02/what-is-apache-hadoop.html The key question to ask ourselves is: how is this relevant to Krescendo? After all,…

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“How Might We”?

http://blogs.hbr.org/cs/2012/09/the_secret_phrase_top_innovato.html I copy-pasted this useful summary to the linked article: Within this deceptively simple phrase each word plays a powerful role in spurring creative problem-solving. “How” assumes …

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