The Week in Review: Another cloud outage for Amazon, Open Compute designs move into colo space, Cisco seees huge wave of data center traffic ahead, DuPont shares slide on analyst jitters, new data hube in Manhattan.
Three topical trends in the big data space are emerging, painting a picture of an industry searching for its footing.
It's "Data Week" and at this week's Strata Conference in New York City, O'Reilly Online Managing Editor Mac Slocum spoke with Founder and CEO of Platfora Ben Werther about the current challenges of big data and the future of big data analysis.
As a journalist who wrote about architecture, Andrew Blum knew about physical places and spaces. Yet, one day when a squirrel nibbled on his Internet cable, the curious writer began a journey to find the physical space where the Internet lives.
The Week in Review: Google brings you inside its data centers and talks about cooling, the petascale supercomputers Blue Waters and NCAR Yellowstone are launched, and RagingWire plans a major new campus in Ashburn's Data Center Alley.
