Category: CEP News and Events
Repeat the Term CEP Eleven Times and Click Your Heels
Fellow blogger Marc Adler writes Streambase on the Move? , apparently in agreement with some of the super-marketing hype on CEP. Streambase uses the term “CEP” in a press release 11 (eleven) times — as if you repeat the phrase CEP eleven times you are a true “CEP player”. Maybe this is the marketing theory [...]
Read morePredicting 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 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 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 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 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 [...]
Read moreAmazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS)
Does Amazon SQS and other “messaging as a service” applications mean that companies can start to think about reducing their ongoing expenses of licensed or hosted messaging systems? According to Amazon, Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS) offers a reliable, highly scalable, hosted queue for storing messages as they travel between computers. By using Amazon [...]
Read morePrelude to The Top Ten Cybersecurity Threats for 2009 – Cyberspace
Soon I will publish my The Top Ten Cybersecurity Threats for 2009. However, before doing so, let’s take a look at some interesting aspects of The Top Ten Cybersecurity Threats for 2008. In my cybersecurity threat list for 2008, I mentioned: — Criminal manipulation and subversion of financial markets. What we observed in 2008 was [...]
Read moreCEP in the 1960s: Air Traffic Control
Professor Luckham wrote about CEP and the future of global Air Traffic Control (ATC) in The Future Event Driven World: Global Air Traffic Management. One of the first commercial applications of complex event processing was in the early 1960s in the field of commercial aviation, for example see the history of Air Traffic Control. Although [...]
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