Archive For March 29, 2009

Grand Challenges in Database Self-Management

I participated in the Self Managing Database Systems closing panel titled Grand Challenges in Database Self-Management. Also on the panel were: Anastassia Ailamaki (Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, Switzerland) Shivnath Babu (Duke University, USA) Nicolas Bruno (Microsoft Research, USA) Benoît Dageville (Oracle, USA) James Hamilton (Amazon, USA) Sam Lightstone (IBM Toronto Software Lab, Canada) Ken…

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Cloud Computing Economies of Scale

Today , I’m at the Self Managing Database Systems workshop which is part of the International Conference on Data Engineering in Shanghai. At last year’s ICDE, I participated in a panel: International Conference on Data Engineering 2008. Earlier today, I did the SMDB keynote where I presented: Cloud Computing Economies of Scale. The key points…

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