Posts Tagged ‘data’
TL;DR We can model data gravity by looking at the respective storage and network costs for different scenarios where workload and associated data might be placed in one or more clouds. As network egress charges are relatively high, this makes the effect of data gravity substantial – pushing workloads and their data to be co-resident […]
Filed under: cloud | 2 Comments
Tags: cloud, data, economics, equation, formula, gravity
Spaghetti and meatballs
If you’re here for my experiments in culinary science move along swiftly, this post isn’t for you. This is all about enterprise architecture versus cloud native architecture. RDBMS is a meatball Enterprises use (or at least have used) Relational Database Management Systems (RDBMS), and such things have become deeply embedded into the organisation and culture […]
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Tags: capacity management, cloud, cloud native, culture, data, dba, enterprise, ETL, meatballs, organisation, rdbms, scale, spaghetti, sql
Making better decisions
TL;DR Decision making is at the heart of an organisation’s purpose, but it’s rare to see much effort being spent on improving the quality of decision making, and typical to see all decisions mired in time consuming bureaucratic process. We can do better, with a little coarse filtering, some doctrine and situational awareness, and a […]
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Tags: Agile, agility, data, decision making, decisions, doctrine, governance, loss aversion, OODA, strategy, Wardley
The Politics of Data
TL;DR Organisations of all types are increasingly making decisions based on data and its analysis, but the rigour involved in this hasn’t yet entered our broader social discourse. I’m hopeful that we all start getting better access to data, and better understanding of the analysis and modelling process so that decisions can be made for […]
Filed under: cle, technology | 1 Comment
Tags: data, data science, news, opinion, politics
TL;DR Anybody wanting a high spec laptop that isn’t from Apple is probably getting a low end model with small RAM and HDD and upgrading themselves to big RAM and SSD. This skews the sales data, so the OEMs see a market where nobody buys big RAM and SSD, from which they incorrectly infer that nobody […]
Filed under: could_do_better, technology | 2 Comments
Tags: apple, Chromebook, data, Intel, laptop, lenovo, MacBook, OODA, RAM, ssd
TL;DR If you’re a Three customer using a 4G capable device abroad with their Feel at Home free international roaming then you may have to manually select 3G as the network preference in order to get a data connection. Update 1: Terence Eden provides a telco insider explanation what what’s going on (or should that be […]
Filed under: howto, technology | 7 Comments
Tags: 3G, 4G, data, feel at home, no service, roaming, Three
For a little while I’ve been experiencing lousy service from my credit card providers, and judging by what I hear from others I’m far from alone on this. The level of false positives from card company fraud detection systems has reached a point where it’s creating a bad customer experience, and it often seems that ‘common sense’ […]
Filed under: could_do_better, grumble, travel | 1 Comment
Tags: algorithm, analytics, big data, card, convenience, customer, customer experience, customer service, data, fraud, gas, social, travel
Eyeballs not devices
Too many devices I seem to accumulated a proliferation of devices recently that want to have SIM cards in them for mobile data: Personal laptop (well actually a tablet, but not in the way that people use that label these days) Work laptop iPhone (not just data) Android phone (could be not just data, but […]
Filed under: technology | 3 Comments
Tags: 3, android, app, apps, Audible, contract, data, Galaxy Tab, iPad, mifi, mobile, payg, tariff, telco, Three, vodafone
The wrong sort of radio
This post is about the madness of corporate web filters in the age of ubiquitous consumer devices with Internet connectivity. I typically see three types of connectivity in any given corporate setting: The company network. Usually wired, but sometimes with a wireless adjunct, this network offers the same liberty as an oppressive Middle East regimes[1]. This […]
Filed under: security, technology | 5 Comments
Tags: 3G, data, filter, filtering, HR, mobile, policy, security, social, time, web, wifi
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