Archive: January, 2009
Predicting Events with Logistic Regression
In earlier post, CEP by Apache Mahout via the Google MapReduce Framework and Apache Mahout: Real-Time Decisioning in the MapReduce Framework, we started to look at the Google MadReduce framework and the planned analytics of the Apache Mahout development team. In this post, we will look at the first algorithm mentioned by the Mahout team, [...]
Read moreCall for a New OWASP Thailand Chapter Leader
The Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP) is a worldwide free and open community focused on improving the security of application software. The OWASP mission is to make application security “visible,” so that people and organizations can make informed decisions about application security risks. I founded the Thailand OWASP Chapter in 2008, however, due to [...]
Read moreApache Mahout: Real-Time Decisioning in the MapReduce Framework
Here is a bit of good news for the complex event processing space. Folks on the Apache Mahout developers mailing list are showing an accelerated interest in topics related to real-time decision-making, starting with a Markov decision process. The Hidden Markov Model (HMM) is listed under “non map-reduce algorithms” on the Mahout wiki. The developer’s [...]
Read moreIT Infrastructure: Capability as a Service
Our recent post, for example, SOA in Cardiac Arrest, Long Live Services and Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS), combined with many great blog posts I have read in the new year, has got me thinking about IT infrastructure services. Software as a Service (SaaS) is a bit boring to discuss. However, Capability as a [...]
Read moreEconomic Fundamentals of IT Initiatives
In Some Footnotes to Recent Blogs Opher provides a bit of cross-blog-fodder (CBF) for his readers (and apologies to Opher for using his post as a introduction), …customers started to see Blogs as authority, and this can be of course dangerous since not everybody who Blogs about something is really an authority… Of course the [...]
Read moreSOA in Cardiac Arrest, Long Live Services
Blogger Anne Thomas Manes, wrote this excellent post, SOA is Dead; Long Live Services. This post echos, in a slightly different theme my posts, Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS) and also, What is SOA, Really…. A Sacred Omnipotent Acronym. In the Amazon SQS post, I mentioned that it is possible that software companies selling [...]
Read moreLessons Learned from High Tower’s Demise
In November 2008, Aliso Viejo-based High Tower Software, a venture-backed developer of security, compliance, and log management software, shut down. Like many of our “CEP/ESP vendors”, High Tower orchestrated numerous “awards” for their security information and event management (SIEM) software, However, these fluffy marketing awards were not enough to keep HT from a nose dive. [...]
Read moreCEP Marketing: You Cannot Fool All of the People All of the Time
I was pleasantly surprised when I read Seth Grime’s Complex Event Processing as a Marketing Device. Normally when I read CEP-related posts by Seth I tend to grimace more than just a bit, as Seth tends to write about event stream processing people (the “SQL-ish continuous query folks”) and products versus the large vision of [...]
Read moreThe Top Ten Cybersecurity Threats for 2009 – Draft for Comments
Here is my draft list of the Top Ten Cybersecurity Threats for 2009. Your comments are greatly appreciated. I will publish the final list later this month, based on comments received. — Constant negative news reporting and adverse analysis undermining public and business confidence in leadership, business management and economic recovery efforts. — Criminal manipulation, [...]
Read morePredictions for the 2009 CEP Market
Reposted (adapted) from The Complex Events Forum: David Luckham: Do you expect the market to expand? No. The entire software market, for the most part, will have a very tough year in 2009, due to a very serious global economic crisis. Firms that have “bet the farm” on capital markets will suffer even more, as [...]
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