Druid, an open source database designed for real-time analysis, is moving to the Apache 2 software license in order to hopefully spur more use of and innovation around the project. It was… Read more »
Google just finished off another record-setting quarter and year for infrastructure spending, according to the company’s earnings report released last week. The web giant spent more than $3.5 billion on “real… Read more »
Microsoft is talking a lot about the scale of its cloud computing platform lately, but scale alone won’t help it steal revenue from Amazon Web Services or Google. Microsoft’s advantage is… Read more »
It’s a good thing Salesforce.com has “dramatically” expanded its data center footprint in order to support its new Wave analytics service, because the product’s performance could ultimately decide how it fares… Read more »
The co-founders of analytics startup Interana came on the Structure Show podcast this week to talk about how to spread data analysis throughout customer accounts, the types of things you can… Read more »
Chinese search engine Baidu is trying to speed the performance of its deep learning models for image search using field programmable gate arrays, or FPGAs, made by Altera. Baidu has been experimenting… Read more »
Facebook’s James Pearce came on the Structure Show this week to talk about how Facebook handles open source projects, and how the new TODO group it’s part of is going help… Read more »
Facebook is upping the ante in the open source world, announcing on Monday a new open source technology for routing data across server caches, and also a new open organization (along… Read more »
A partnership between Google and Mesosphere further’s Google’s strategy to sell the world on its way of automating applications and resources. Cluster management is important — even sexy when wrapped in… Read more »
Google spent nearly $2.65 billion on infrastructure in the second quarter, upping its year-over-year investment by $1 billion and more than tripling the amount it spent in the second quarter of 2012. Read more »