Category Archives: bigdata

Systems & Security Tools du jour

By rmp | Published: April 24, 2013

I’ve been to two events in the past two weeks which have started me thinking harder about the way we protect and measure our enterprise systems. The first of the two events was the fourth Splunk Live in St. Paul’s, London last week. I’ve been a big fan of Splunk for a few years but [...]

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Massively Parallel Sequence Archive

By rmp | Published: April 30, 2008

For some time now at Sanger we’ve been looking at the problems and solutions involved with building services supporting what are likely to become some of the biggest databases on the planet. The biggest problem is there aren't too many people doing this kind of thing and who are willing to talk about it. The [...]

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