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<title><![CDATA[Ramon Ray]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Technology evangelist, writer, author, speaker, tech consultant (former) - lover of all things small business technology!]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Amazon launches Hadoop data crunching service]]></title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 14 Apr 2009 12:18:58 EDT</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Amazon on Thursday announced a new cloud computing service that uses Hadoop, a free software framework, to crunch tons of data.
The service, called Amazon Elastic MapReduce, is designed for businesses, researchers and analysts trying to conduct data intensive number crunching (statement). Hadoop, which is used by companies like Google and Yahoo, is being pushed into the enterprise data center by startups like Cloudera.
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<title><![CDATA[SaaS: Outsourcing out-of-control? | Between the Lines]]></title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 14 Apr 2009 12:16:27 EDT</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[SaaS is effectively the same as outsourcing - you’re handing control over business processes to a third-party service provider. However, while SaaS delivery shares many similarities with outsourcing as a delivery model, there are serious caveats...]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Top Facebook applications see 25% drop in traffic since redesign | Between the Lines]]></title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 14 Apr 2009 12:13:27 EDT</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Last week I asked, “Is Facebook an unsafe environment for business?”, questioning CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s decision to somewhat ignore developers’ concerns for the greater (company) good. Turns out I wasn’t far off in asking that question.]]></description>
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