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Work Life Balance – The Wally way

Amazon Inc. recently announced the broad availability of Amazon Redshift – a fast, powerful, fully managed, petabyte-scale data warehouse service. Redshift, based on technology from ParAccel is aggressively priced solution at $1,000 per terabyte per year. Per AWS blog , it is highly cost effective offering that comes at about one-tenth of the cost associated with a typical data warehousing option and is expected to deliver 10 times the performance. Redshift is targeted to replace the capital expenditure of building…

A man came home from work late, tired and irritated, to find his 5-year old son waiting for him at the door. SON: ‘Daddy, may I ask you a question?’ DAD: ‘Yeah sure, what it is?’ replied the man. SON: ‘Daddy, how much do you make an hour?’ DAD: ‘That’s none of your business. Why do you ask such a thing?’ the man said angrily. SON: ‘I just want to know. Please tell me, how much do you make an…

Reports use queries to extract data from data stores, and then present the results to a user. At a low level, there are two main ways of creating queries. 1. Using a query language appropriate to the data store, e.g. SQL or MDX. 2. Use of semantic layer What is a semantic layer? An increasing number of reporting tools allow users to make use of a “semantic layer”.  Some vendors give the semantic layer a name that is specific to…

Ultimately, happiness rests on how you establish a solid sense of self or being. Happiness does not lie in outward appearances nor in vanity. It is a matter of what you feel inside; it is a deep resonance in your life. To be filled each day with a rewarding sense of exhilaration and purpose, a sense of tasks accomplished and deep fulfillment—people who feel this way are happy. Those who have this sense of satisfaction even if they are extremely…

Jeff Bezos talks about the three things that drive a company forward: 1. Customer obsession, 2. Invention and 3. thinking long-term and how these three business drivers are inherent in both Amazon and Zappos’ business cultures.

“Faith is light. The hearts of those with strong faith are filled with light. A radiance envelops their lives. People with unshakable conviction in faith enjoy a happiness that is as luminous as the full moon on a dark night, as dazzling as the sun on a clear day.”- Daisaku Ikeda

“Life is a series of changes, a succession of ups and downs. But those who possess a prime point, a home to which they can return no matter what happens, are strong. To come home to the world of friendship in the SGI, to talk things over and prepare for a fresh departure—this is the way I hope all of you will live. When you do, you will advance upon a fundamentally unerring path to happiness.” – Daisaku Ikeda

“Eiji Yoshikawa (1892-1962), the renowned Japanese author of many epic historic novels, asserted, “Great character is forged through hardships.” Surviving a life of hardships and difficulties, of stormy ups and downs, is what produces a person of great depth and character. True happiness is also found in such an unshakable state of life.” – Daisaku Ikeda