by John Rossman | Apr 30, 2014 | Blog
Unlike most people, my fascination with Charlie Rose’s Jeff Bezos Dec. 1 interview really had little to do with the idea of delivery drones. Instead, I found myself admiring how consistent and “on point” Jeff Bezos has been over the years, and realized that most of...
by John Rossman | Apr 8, 2014 | Blog
n the 1983 movie Return of the Jedi, at the moment when Luke is most tempted to give into his hate and the dark side, Emperor Palpatine goats Luke: “Come, boy, see for yourself. From here, you will witness the final destruction of the Alliance and the end of your...
by John Rossman | Apr 16, 2014 | Blog
AWS (Amazon Web Services) announced the release of Kinesis – Streaming data service brings real-time decision-making to Big Data. Why is that important? The “internet of things” or IoT is the enablement on a massive scale of self-monitoring, IP enabled devices all...
by John Rossman | Apr 16, 2014 | Blog
The WSJ is reporting that the Germany Cartel office will not be pursuing proceeding against Amazon after Amazon adjusted it’s third-party selling “pricing parity” requirements. (read the WSJ story here ) Pricing and availability parity has been an important...
by John Rossman | Apr 29, 2014 | Blog
Amazon’s cloud computing business AWS announced the release of high-performance SQL-like open source query tool Impala running on AWS. Combine Impala with Amazon’s Kinesis product which enables real time collection and distribution of streaming data and...