Blogs - Avalon Consulting, LLC
Once upon a time – okay, about 1996 or so – there was a race for dominance of this new thing called the World Wide Web. On one side was Microsoft, having firmly staked its ground a few years before with the introduction of Windows 3.0. On the other side was a little startup called [...]
Tony Jewitt, our VP of Big Data, challenged me to impress him with an example of the power of emerging technology in solving real world Big Data problems. I needed a large dataset with a complicated processing requirement to do that and decided to extract witness information from Senate and House hearings for the past [...]
Perhaps you’ve heard about Amazon EC2′s new promotion, the AWS Free Usage Tier. New AWS customers can run a Linux Micro instance free for 1 year. Micro Instances consist of 613 MB of memory, up to 2 ECUs (for short periodic bursts), EBS storage only, 32-bit or 64-bit platform. Earlier this year MarkLogic announced support [...]
A client needed a prototype server that was low cost, had potential to scale, and whose management could easily be transferred. We needed a single linux-based server that we could turn on and off for security and to control cost. Amazon’s EC2 service fit the bill well, so we set up an account and I [...]
Avalon Consulting, LLC implements Big Data, Web Presence, Content Publishing, and Enterprise Search solutions. We are the trusted partner to over one hundred clients, primarily Global 2000 companies, public agencies, and institutions of higher learning.
Headquartered in Plano, Texas, Avalon also maintains offices in Austin, Texas, Chicago, Illinois, and Washington, DC.
