Dealing with the awesome amounts of data generated by users and serving up relationships tied to that data quickly are forcing web-scale sites like Twitter, Reddit and Facebook to investigate a… Read more »
Digg, the San Francisco-based social media company, is dropping MySQL and instead betting its future on Cassandra, an open-source data store. It’s just the latest sign of the growing popularity of… Read more »
“NoSQL” is among the hottest terms in web infrastructure; there’s no denying that much. In fact, the fascination with all things NoSQL goes well beyond just talk – statistics show that… Read more »
I’m beginning to wonder when we’ll finally figure out how to evolve IT operations from a client-server world into a webscale world. Today alone, I read posts bemoaning the analysis of… Read more »
Earlier this week, GigaOM’s Sebastian Rupley detailed Cloudera’s plans to move beyond open-source software and services into the world of proprietary software. It might seem a bit early for the startup… Read more »
Of all the infrastructure trends during the fourth quarter, the biggest might be the changing shape of the data center market. An area once comprising separate vendors for separate functions now… Read more »
The real-time web has never been hotter, with Bing and Google presenting Twitter and Facebook updates in real time, and Google upping the ante with news headlines and MySpace updates, as… Read more »
Schooner Information Technology, a 2-year-old year old startup in Menlo Park, Calif., today came out of stealth mode with an appliance designed to speed up the transfer of information. As online… Read more »