How Facebook Compresses Its 300 PB Data Warehouse
When you have a 300 PB data warehouse running atop Hadoop, you do everything in your power to keep from adding another rack of disk drives to this beast. ...Full Article
Greenpeace Sees Progress Toward ‘Green’ Datacenters
We can't do much without power, and cloud computing services are using a growing share of the world's electrical power. That trend is expected to accelerate as emerging markets ...Full Article
Google Lifts Veil On “Andromeda” Virtual Networking
The biggest public cloud providers have adjacent businesses that actually fund the development of the infrastructure that starts out in their own operations and eventually makes its way into ...Full Article
Hyperscale Titans Team To Scale MySQL
Four of the titans of hyperscale Web applications – Google, Facebook, LinkedIn, and Twitter – have teamed up to create a set of common extensions aimed specifically at running ...Full Article
Arista Champions New 100GbE Optical Spec, Files To Go Public
Frustrated by the limitations of the current crop of transceivers that have been approved by the IEEE and adopted by the industry, Arista Networks is teaming up with Intel ...Full Article
IBM Juices Hadoop With Java On Tesla GPUs
Commercial applications written in Java have plenty of parallel tasks that can be accelerated through the use of GPU coprocessors. IBM is very keen on leveraging the combination of ...Full Article
Telco Calls On GPU-Native SQream SQL Database
Using GPUs to accelerate processing started in earnest six years ago with floating point number crunching in the supercomputing space, but now it is moving into database processing and ...Full Article
Costs Come Down So Equinix Weaves 100GbE Switches Into Datacenters
Everybody wants the fastest network they can get, but speed increases or latency reductions are usually not immediately affordable to all but the extreme cases. It takes time for ...Full Article
Flash Spreads Around The System, Accelerating As It Goes
UlltraDIMM memory channel storage, which puts flash memory in the same slots as main memory in servers, is starting to ship from IBM, and its advent has a lot ...Full Article
Facebook Open Sources Datacenter Efficiency Tracking Tools
Companies that operate hyperscale datacenters have gone to great lengths to boost efficiency, and to show their commitment to green computing some of these cloud giants are sharing their ...Full Article
