The Pith of Performance

Comment at ArsTechnica : "One of the big things that I've learned and that's been recently reinforced for me, is that you need ...

A blog-post over at ZDNet describes how enterprise data-ops can use network scanners to detect and disarm the Conficker Worm vulnerability...

Additional opportunities to attend the popular Guerrilla Boot Camp class have now been scheduled at the Larkspur Hotel . Book early , book ...

In my view, another reason Larry Ellison diss'd Cloud Computing last year (even though he promoted "Thin Clients" a decade a...

I claim the "NetBook" (whatever the hell that really is) will turn out to be a 9-day wonder: less utility then a laptop , too big ...

Very interesting piece in the WSJ about Sprint's strategy to offset its inability to sign up enough new cellphone subscribers. The main...

Along the lines of Mongo Measurement Requires Mongo Management , the HadoopStreaming package on CRAN provides utilities for applying R scr...