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Systems engineer deemed best job in America

lee — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 01:21:00 +0000

A deep and detailed survey by Focus.com concludes that the best job in the United States is a tech job: systems engineer. No. 2: physician assistant. No. 3: college professor.

Originally posted at Technically Incorrect

Apple loses key chip executive

lee — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 17:36:00 +0000

Sources say Dan Dobberpuhl, PA Semi’s founder and pre-acquisition chief executive, has jumped ship to work at chip-related start-up Agnilux.

Originally posted at Nanotech – The Circuits Blog

Video: Developer Doug Cutting Talks About The Founding Of Hadoop

lee — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 03:27:43 +0000

Doug Cutting – Cloudera

Hadoop, open source, Yahoo

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In the video above, Doug Cutting, the creator of the Apache Hadoop project, discusses how the technology was first developed for large web companies (like Facebook, Google, Yahoo, which all use the open-source technology). Essentially, Cutting says Hadoop was born out of need: the data landscape was changing, and fast. Data volumes, especially complex data (video logs, visuals, etc.), were growing everywhere and there was a need for a cost-effective place to collect this data and mine it.

Cutting now works at Cloudera, the startup that commercially distributes and services Hadoop. Hadoop is a Java software framework born out of an open-source implementation of Google’s published computing infrastructure which is fostered within the Apache Software Foundation. Hadoop supports distributed applications running on large clusters of commodity computers processing enormous amounts of data.

Via Cloudera, Hadoop is currently used by most of the giants in the space including Google, Yahoo, Facebook (we wrote about Facebook’s use of Cloudera here), Amazon, AOL, Baidu and more. To date, Cloudera has raised $11 million in funding from Accel Partners and Greylock Partners.

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Rackspace Recruits A Few Drizzle Alums

lee — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 00:30:54 +0000

Cloud infrastructure giant Rackspace is welcoming a number of former Sun Microsystems employees this week. The employees came from Drizzle, an offshoot of open source database MySQL that aimed to create a “trimmed-down, faster version of the database system.”

Oracle closed its $7.4 billion acquisition of Sun Microsystems earlier this year, and Drizzle developer Jay Pipes wrote in a blog post that he and a few of his fellow colleagues soon found out that they wouldn’t have a job once Oracle took over the reins. During the EU investigation of the deal, rumors emerged that MySQL would be eliminated because of the competition the database poses to Oracle’s own database technology. Pipes writes:

Larry Ellison has gone on record that the whole “cloud thing” is faddish. I don’t know whether Larry understands that cloud computing and infrastructure-as-a-service, platform-as-a-service, and database-as-a-service will eventually put his beloved Oracle cash cow in its place or not. I don’t know whether Oracle is planning on embracing the cloud environments which will continue to eat up the market share of more traditional in-house environments upon which their revenue streams depend. I really don’t.

But what I do know is that Rackspace is betting that providing these services is what the future of technology will be about.

Pipes and his Drizzle team have now migrated to Rackspace, where their products will be supported by the company’s strategic goals.

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‘Runaway’ Prius: Questions raised about driver

lee — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 00:01:00 +0000

The case of a “runaway” Prius in San Diego demonstrates how claims about electronic flaws requires investigators to look carefully at the human element too.

Originally posted at Nanotech – The Circuits Blog

HP aims for ‘amazing’ with ad campaign

lee — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 23:00:06 +0000

Hewlett-Packard is ready to go with a new series of ads intended to jazz up its image among businesses, consumers, and even its own employees.

Mobile tycoon edges out Gates as richest man

lee — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 23:00:04 +0000

Worth $53.5 billion, Mexican mobile tycoon Carlos Slim Helu is now the world’s richest man, according to Forbes, putting Bill Gates in second place with only $53 billion.

Consensus emerges for key Web app standard

lee — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 20:44:00 +0000

Indexed DB isn’t a sure thing, but it’s got most of the right allies in the browser world to become an enabler of the cloud-computing vision.

Originally posted at Deep Tech

Week in review: Game on for Sony

lee — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 19:00:00 +0000

Sony joins the motion controller wars, and broadband gets ready for a big leap. Also: SXSWi goes geolocation.

China’s stern warning to Google

lee — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 15:17:52 +0000

China’s top internet official warns that Google will “pay the consequences” if it does not comply with censorship laws.