Stat Czar Vince Gennaro Harnesses Baseball’s Mountain Of Data
The amount of data being captured, stored, and analyzed during a Major League Baseball (MLB) game has, like players' salaries and the net worth of big league franchises, exploded. ...Full Article
How Facebook Autoscale Cuts Cluster Electric Bills
The reason why online retailer Amazon started its cloud computing unit was not just because it wanted to break into a business selling raw compute and storage capacity to ...Full Article
The Beginnings Of Hyperscale At Google
Fifteen years ago, Google did what every startup on the Internet dreams of: It closed its first round of venture funding, put out its first press release, and took ...Full Article
MIT, Facebook Create Low-Latency Fastpass TCP Replacement
Data scientists from MIT and Facebook have proposed a centralized datacenter network that chucks the traditional Internet architecture used for packet transmission and path selection, replacing it with a ...Full Article
Convey-Dell FPGA Appliance Accelerates Hyperscale Image Resizing
Convey Computer, a maker of hybrid supercomputers based on a mix of X86 processors and field programmable gate array (FPGA) chips, is teaming up with Dell's Data Center Solutions ...Full Article
Facebook Datacenters Boosting Swedish Economy
Facebook says its first European datacenter in northern Sweden is generating jobs as well as conserving energy. The social media giant broke ground on the facility in Luleå, Sweden ...Full Article
Google Rethinks The Datacenter
With its vastly profitable search engine and advertising empire, it might seem that Google no longer has to worry about controlling capital expenditures. This is not the case. Google ...Full Article
Facebook Datacenters Fuel Oregon’s Economy
Facebook is taking a familiar tack among technology companies: It wants to move beyond the public perception that it is only a social media company to be seen as ...Full Article
ADP, Dow Jones Help Mainstream Node.js
The one thing that all enterprises are always on the hunt for is a hardware or software technology that can significantly speed up an existing process or, in some ...Full Article
Open Compute In Full Bloom At Facebook North Carolina Datacenter
The Facebook culture is one of hacking bits of software together to make a complex system and constantly tweaking it to improve its performance, efficiency, and scale. This is ...Full Article
