Joyent announced a new Apache Hadoop-based solution, built using the Hortonworks Data Platform (HDP), that allows companies to run enterprise-class Hadoop on the high-performance Joyent Cloud.
Facebook has built a dedicated data center at its Prineville, Oregon campus that could house older photos in a separate "cold storage" system that dramatically slash the cost of storing and serving these files.
Big data analytics company Guavus closes $30 million funding round, retailer selects Teradata (TDC) for data warehousing, Cloudera powers real-time analytics for ExactTarget.
It just got easier for government agencies to use Facebook’s data center designs if they choose. Hyve, a division of Synnex which makes servers and storage solutions based on Open Compute designs, has qualified as a government vendor under General...
WAN technologies continue to evolve as more bandwidth, better underlying infrastructure and optimization all create a more robust connection. As more organizations move to the cloud, they will increase their reliance on data center availability...
The major downtime incidents of 2012 illustrate the range of causes of outages - major disasters, equipment failures, software behaving badly, undetected Leap Year date issues, and human error. Each incident caused some pain for customers and end...
According to an incident report, Monday's Gmail outage was indeed caused by a software update causing a networking issue, specifically in Google's load balancers, as we had theorized.
Big data startup ClearStory Data Closes $9 million Series A.funding, Teradata selects Mellanox to accelerate big data appliance, ExtraHop adds Sybase IQ for Big Data Management.
IBM has announced a major advance in the ability to use light instead of electrical signals to transmit information for future computing. Referred to as Silicon Nanophotonics, the technology allows the integration of different optical components ...