Cloud Computing

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[nosql]

The 1.9 release adds primarily three things:

Auto-Clustering, which makes Neo4j Enterprise clustering more robust & easier to administer, with fewer moving parts

Cypher language improvements make the language more functionally powerful and more performant, and

New welcome pages make learning easier for new users

[nosql]

The first is for the enterprise customers and brings in the features that were initially supported through ZooKeeper

Cypher is Neo4j’s fast evolving query language

The site is brilliant.

The release post is terrible with links to dive into the newly announced features.

Original title and link: Neo4j 1.9 General Availability - Auto-clustering, Cypher, and Some comments (NoSQL database©myNoSQL)

[charlesgale-deactivated20171004]

Big data isn’t new, but now has reached critical mass as people digitize their lives. People are walking sensors.

Nicholas Skytland, program manager for NASA’s Open Innovation Program (via charlesgale)

[ibmconsulting]

So remember last month how I told you about Project Sparta? That would be the IBM project aimed at simplifying how companies attack their big-data problems.

Well, it has a name now, and as I suspected, it’s part of the growing Pure line. It has been dubbed the PureData System, and it comes in three flavors: One optimized for transactions, one for operations and one for big-data analytics. IBM announced the system late Monday, in connection with an event in Singapore.

In the announcement, Big Blue included one of those big-picture observations about the state of data and the unceasing struggle to get a handle on it all. According to IBM’s reckoning, 2.5 exabytes of data is created every day. (You know what a gigabyte is; after that are terabytes, then petabytes, then exabytes.) And the amount is growing so fast that 90 percent of the data that now exists has been created in the last two years. What this means is that the amount of data that companies and governments and people are creating is growing like crazy, and that doesn’t even begin to get the point across.

I talked with Arvind Krishna, general manager, IBM Information Management, and he compared the different flavors to a Web site selling stuff: One version of the system can handle all the sales; another handles the analytics one might use to figure out what combinations of products people buy together at different times of the year, or to watch for credit card fraud.

With these new systems, IBM is promising that it can handle problems like these in minutes instead of hours.

[goodideaexchange]

“There are of course a number of ways for leaders to gain loyalty that involve variations around compensating your employees, running a sound ship and producing strong results for your organization.   These are all naturally true, but I’d argue there’s one other method that’s simpler and more fundamental and will serve you well in good economic times and bad … “

[ibmconsulting]

The idea is that by harvesting the incredible amount of data “exhaust” that every one of us generates as we traverse a city, planners can optimize services in the city to make them more efficient, cleaner and cheaper. But there is a fear that such top-down programs may threaten the very vitality that attracts people to cities in the first place … According to Carlo Ratti of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology SENSEable City Lab, cities occupy just 2% of the world’s surface, but house 50% of the population, consume 70% of the world’s energy and are responsible for 80% of the world’s carbon. PlanIT is a €10 billion, four-year project to build a new smart city in Portugal to house some 225,000 people. With sensors built into every building it presents itself as an urban utopia where smart buildings can sense our presence and anticipate our needs.

‘Smart City’ Planning Needs the Right Balance - Tech Europe - WSJ

[parislemon]

Dear Chrome, Slow Your Roll

[nosql]

Quantcast released a new Hadoop file system QFS:

fully compatible with HDFS

licensed under Apache 2.0 license

written in C++

while HDFS replicates data 3 times, QFS requires only 1.5x raw capacity

QFS supports two types of fault tolerance: chunk replication and Reed-Solomon encoding

QFS components (more details

[emergentfutures]

Inside Facebook’s lab: A mission to make hardware open source

Summary: A look behind the scenes of Facebook’s hardware lab, the spiritual home of the Open Compute datacentre hardware movement, which may radically change the type of IT enterprises use, and who they buy it from.

Full Story: ZDNET

[futuramb]

zite.to

New leg­is­la­tion to bring dri­ver­less cars to Cal­i­for­nia roads has been signed

[heartthecloud]

Iphone 5 a hit

There's ques out the doors of all the local shops in melbourne, havent had a chance to use it yet, will give it a go later on.

[cxthecloud-blog]

Cloud Storage and the Environmental Effects: Forecast Is Hazy

Read why here.

[sustainableyadayadayada]

This article presents an interesting idea of newspapers reinventing themselves as collectors and analyzers and brokers of data.

Any local news organizations could collect and manage the data (using its own people and perhaps some of the third-party resources that I mentioned) and provide a...

[actian]

Resource Industry to Mine Data Faster with Actian and Geological Data Design

BRISBANE, AUSTRALIA, August 6, 2012 – Actian Corporation today announced that Geological Data Design (GDD), a specialist in the collection, management and analysis of exploration and mining data, has selected the record-breaking analytical database Vectorwise to power their Field Data Integrator. GDD’s Field Data Integrator is the first end-to-end mining and exploration solution, and makes working with large volumes of resources data faster and simpler.

[jonathanfrei]

Twitter is measuring its users’ sentiments about the top two US presidential candidates.

The Twitter Political Index is a daily measurement that evaluates the sentiment of Twitter users feelings about the candidates, Barack Obama and Mitt Romney, relative to the more than 400 million Tweets sent about all other topics each day.

It will be interesting to see how the trend lines unfold over the next several months.

[suryaray-blog]

#SuryaRay #Surya Just look around at the likes of Evernote, Springpad, Lawloop and DocTrackr and it should be obvious: managing documents online is a pretty busy space right now.

But there’s one service that has quietly been making waves — and now it’s about to stage a real revolution.

[cs101]

http://ethnographymatters.net/2012/05/28/small-data-people-in-a-big-data-world/

[thinkvr]

Data, not ads is Facebook's future

Instead of advertising, Facebook’s big opportunity lies with big data. The Facebook Data Sciences Team, a group of 12 researchers was brought together to apply social science research techniques to large datasets. The information they mine could be the basis for almost any kind of business — absent major protests from the public. Via ZDNet