Archive: June, 2009
Why Gimmick Marketing?
I remember when I was first introduced to Linux, circa 1993. There was no Linux marketing. Linux was simply a great operating system and I could use it as a mail server, a file server, a name server, a web server, a database platform, a development platform, a sniffer, a firewall, and more. I introduced [...]
Read moreU.S. Cyber Command – Some Deep Background
It is not common knowledge, but we began discussing the need for a cyber command in the mid-1990s; but it was the Langley Cyber Attack in 1997 that started the momentum toward making a future cyber command a reality. I don’t want to rehash well-documented historical events in this post. Instead, I will focus [...]
Read moreU.S. Cyber Command (USCYBERCOMM)
As someone who, as a consultant, proposed a Cyber Command for the USAF over a decade ago, it is good to see the DOD moving in that direction with the proposed US Cyber Command. Cyberspace is a critical operational dimension. I first referred to this in a 1997 MILCOM paper co-authored with Lt. Col. [...]
Read moreA Hidden Danger in Cloud Computing
Back in the days when I was happily spending time on the operations floor in computing centers, we always observed that the greatest security threats to our systems were well-intended operators who make simple mistakes. No hacker or criminal ever brought down a network like the bored network guy on the late shift who decided [...]
Read moreApama’s Good Adsense
I think the following is a very good Google Adsense ad by Apama. I see this ad running on a number of sites: Stream Processing Engine Now you can monitor, analyze and act on streaming event data. www.Progress.com/apama The ad above is accurate and does not confuse complex event processing with stream processing. [...]
Read moreAmazon CloudFront Test Results with Small Objects
Following up on our Date with the CloudFront Operations Manager we have just released our public test results using a small 1.6kb object (a small gif file). The results of the tests can be found here, Amazon CloudFront / S3 Small Object Test Results In a nutshell, we found a fairly significant performance improvement using [...]
Read moreMore Fallacy and Misinformation in CEP-Land
I thought we had seen the last of the darkest days of folly, falsehoods and hype around “complex event processing” and then I read Why does ‘complex event processing’ have to be so complex? by Joe McKendrick. Here is some of the marketing nonsense: I recently had the opportunity to join David, along with Brenda [...]
Read moreProcessing Complex Events at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC)
Here is an excellent Google TechTalk by Dr. Majorie Shapiro (LBL & LHC ATLAS), June 18, 2007, on processing complex events at the LHC called, Supersymmetry, Extra Dimensions and the Origin of Mass: Exploring the Nature of the Universe Using PetaScale Data Analysis. This is really what I would call “real-time CEP.” Bean collisions at [...]
Read moreTIBCO Silver v. Amazon EC2: First Impressions
Just coming off a ten day vacation, I was planning to write a few posts on a few “pure” scientific topics like string theory, complexity, and emergence. However, a few folks contacted me and asked me my opinion on TIBCO Silver; so, I thought I would at least blog on my first impressions. TIBCO’s [...]
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