LeonD

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   Should IBM Open-Source Watson?(medium.com)

   2 points by LeonD 12y ago|0 comments
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   How Silicon Valley Cafeteria Food Got So Gourmet(businessinsider.com)

   1 points by LeonD 12y ago|0 comments
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   by LeonD 12y ago

   > it's mostly commodity hardware It's commodity in the sense that Amazon buys it from commodity vendors, but they use custom designs built to address the specific parameters of their data centers. Very few other companies can a
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   by LeonD 12y ago

   > And in Amazon Web Services, the biggest thing Amazon has to fear is the OpenStack initiative producing a platform that lots of little hosts can host. I highly doubt OpenStack alone can make it possible for smaller players to replicate
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   by LeonD 12y ago

   Is a relational workload that requires four-nines-plus availability like Amazon is touting really something an organization would be willing to run in the cloud? Especially since that category includes a lot of personally identifiable data
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   by LeonD 12y ago

   That is already happening to an extent, except the wares being promoted are the ads themselves and they're being sold in sub-second auctions where the bidders are different algorithms operating on behalf of various companies.