Does VMware Move Signal That Big Data Is Ready for Prime Time?

Deploying, configuring and maintaining Hadoop clusters is challenging and time-intensive, but VMware aims to change that with a new open source project that virtualizes the Hadoop cluster and makes it ready for the cloud. [...]

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SGI to launch Cloudera Hadoop package

High performance computer system vendor SGI plans to offer pre-built clusters running the Apache Hadoop data analysis platform, the company announced Monday. [...]

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Red Hat raids cloud storage market by acquiring Gluster

Red Hat announced Tuesday that it is acquiring Gluster, which makes open-source software that clusters commodity SATA drives and NAS systems into massively scalable pools of storage, in a cash deal valued at about $136 million. Gluster is also a contributor to the OpenStack cloud project and Red Hat is promising this involvement will continue. Indeed, Red Hat is now uncharacteristically saying its support of OpenStack will grow even beyond Gluster to the next release of Fedora. [...]

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Red Hat buys cloud storage vendor Gluster
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Gluster extends file system into Storage Platform, VM failover
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SuccessFactors acquiring Jobs2web days after SAP deal
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Google News gets new look, customization and social media features – Los Angeles Times

Google News gets new look, customization and social media features
Los Angeles Times
Google News received an update Monday, adding social media sharing features and expandable sections for news clusters as well as getting a slightly different look. The design retains Google's traditionally sparse look of blue links on a white

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Cubicle wars: Best and worst office setups for tech workers

Consider the modern office layout: Open floor plan, lots of common space flooded with natural light, clusters of “pods” with low partitions (or none), all designed to encourage teamwork, boost productivity and — management hopes — improve the bottom line. [...]

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Facebook Groups Challenges Google

Facebook held a media event yesterday to unveil upcoming changes to the social networking site–most notably the addition of Facebook Groups to enable sharing and communication in smaller clusters of users and provide better privacy control. The changes to Facebook also illustrate how Facebook is evolving to be an online business platform comparable to Google. [...]

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Compellent adds SAS drives, RAID 6 to flagship SAN

Compellent today announced its latest SAN, which offers SAS drive capability, automated tiering between RAID 5, 6 and 10 levels and server mapping that automates the deployment of virtual servers and clusters. [...]

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InfiniBand rockets up Top 500 supercomputer list

InfiniBand-based clusters account for 182 of the top 500 supercomputers and half of the top 10. [...]

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New result clusters swirl into Google’s image search

Google is publicly testing a new image search interface whose results, when clicked on, don’t take users to an external Web page but instead display the clicked-upon image at the center of a radiating cluster of similar thumbnails. [...]

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HP unveils new scale-out servers

Hewlett-Packard on Monday announced a pair of servers aimed at companies that want to build large-scale computing clusters while maximizing data center space. [...]

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