Memcached

Facebook Opens Up Tools To Scale Memcached

When a back-end database can't serve up bits of data fast enough to deal with the hit load on the web servers that sit in front of it, the ...Full Article

Amadeus Travel Goes Up Tempo with CouchbaseDB

In the near future, if you search for a flight online, it’s likely that your query will run against Couchbase’s NoSQL database. That’s because Amadeus, the Spanish company that ...Full Article

LinkedIn Copes with Server Explosion with Revved Up CFEngine

The dream of every Internet startup is for an idea to take off and go mainstream. This is precisely the nightmare of every system administrator that works at these ...Full Article

Facebook Adds Retro Relational to Massive Hadoop Analytics

If there is one lesson that all extreme scale system designs teach us over and over again, it is that you have to tailor the system for the specific ...Full Article

Mellanox Open Sources Messaging Accelerator for Networks

Intrepid enterprises looking to boost the performance of their data streaming and messaging applications just got a new option now that Mellanox has open sourced its Messaging Accelerator offload ...Full Article

Facebook Tech Director Reveals Open Networking Plan

Facebook is a classic example of an exponentially growing business with extreme scale IT needs that cannot do things in the data center the way traditional large enterprises do. ...Full Article

Convey Revs Up Memcached With Hybrid X86-FPGA Appliance

Convey Computer, a maker of hybrid computers that marry Xeon processors from Intel to field programmable gate array accelerators from Xilinx, has quite possibly come up with the killer ...Full Article