When Amazon announced the release of Amazon Micro Instances, I was excited about how useful it will be for SMBs. Amazon Micro Instances + Open Source software solves one of the problems faced by SMBs. Some pundits outright dismissed the possibility of using Micro Instances for web hosting. Even though I agree that Micro Instances are not good candidates to replace traditional web hosting, what I was highlig ...

To provide a small taste of what the event second annual Hadoop World Conference next month in New York will offer, I corresponded with Hadoop World speaker Linden Hillenbrand, product manager of Hadoop Technologies at General Electric, to get an idea of how GE leverages Hadoop and the use case he'll be presenting at the show. Hillenbrand has been using Hadoop for six months, starting with distribution 18 f ...