This post from the New York Times’ Open blog talks about the architecture and algorithms underpinning its content-personalization engine. Its experience speaks to some larger trends around companies moving from batch… Read more »
Chasing a potentially huge market, Microsoft has inked a pact with the municipality of Shanghai and with ISP 21Vianet to offer Windows Azure services in China. The deal could be huge… Read more »
Industries like Internet search, genomics, climate research and business analytics are starting to create massive data sets — in the petabyte and exabyte range — that are requiring an entirely new… Read more »
Citrix Systems announced the acquisition of private-cloud startup Cloud.com on Tuesday, the same day VMware rolled out a significant update to vSphere. Both companies are attempting to cement positions as private-cloud… Read more »