SaffronSierra

JVMKiller

In our latest release of SMB, we spent a fair amount of time testing and minimizing windows where data corruption can occur in our associative memory. The testing involved killing various processes during periods of activity. But rather than a hit-or-miss approach of randomly killing SMB processes and seeing if any sort of recovery was [...]

SaffronSierra & Gmail Classification

I’ve recently added some sample code to our “examples” repository that demonstrates how to use SaffronMemoryBase running on SaffronSierra to do basic email classification. The example leverages the convenience of labels within Gmail to provide the “labels” for classifying future emails. If you have a Gmail account (or a Google Apps account) then you already know [...]

SaffronSierra Refresh

We just pushed out a minor refresh to SaffronSierra. As a user you won’t notice much that’s different (hopefully). This refresh brings with it a couple of changes. One that users will see, and another they won’t. Let me talk about both briefly: Nightly Running Reminders – SaffronSierra is a pay-as-you-go service. You pay for every [...]

TweetDive Source Code

I’m happy to announce that we’ve made the TweetDive source code publicly available (finally). I know a number of people have been waiting to get their hands on it. For details on how to grab it from Subversion take a look at this page. We hope this code will provide a quick-start for developers getting started [...]

Partnering with Saffron

We’re hearing it every day: Customers want better, more advanced analytic capabilities. Customers are telling us they want to unify and apply advanced data analytics to disparate data sources –– semantic web, enterprise data, sensor data, structured and unstructured data, for example –– to improve business decisions and results. It’s music to our ears because that’s what [...]

Updated Pricing

Starting today we’ve changed the way pricing works for SaffronSierra. Hopefully you will find our new approach much simpler. What is our new approach? Some would call it “pay-as-you-go”. Quite simply there is a per-hour rate based on what type of SaffronSierra cluster you’re running. The per-hour rate starts at $1.00 an hour and goes [...]

The Big Red Easy Button

Better known as SaffronSierra. Today Saffron announced the availability of SaffronSierra, a cloud delivery of the SaffronMemoryBase platform. As you know, SaffronSierra allows developers a quick and easy way to provision an associative memory “data service” with a push of a button. How easy is that? SaffronSierra will soon become even easier with a “no [...]

REST API Announcement

Today Saffron announced our REST APIs for sense-making and decision support applications using SaffronMemoryBase (SMB). With these REST APIs, we’ve taken an otherwise difficult subject and made it easy. Similar to how REST has simplified SOA, Saffron’s REST APIs have simplified analytics. Notable features of our API are: Powerful, yet simple to use. For example, to [...]

Email Filtering: A Case for Fast and Easy Learning

Early in Saffron’s life, a couple of guys, Bob Cagle and Dean Pfutzenreuter from Open Field software on the West Coast, understood the power of our associative memories and applied it to spam filtering. Beyond just spam, their Electronic Learning Assistant (ELLA) was a personalized email management system for any set of folders defined by [...]

CL-EC2, a Common Lisp Interface to Amazon’s EC2 Query API, Now Available

Version 0.1 of CL-EC2 is now available for download, under an MIT-style license. The project is hosted at common-lisp.net, and may be found here. There are several mailing lists available, and contributors are welcome.