• AFCOM Data Center World – Global Conference & Expo

  April 27-May 4: The Mirage Hotel & Casino, Las Vegas, NV

• Gartner Data Center Conference 2013

  December 9-12: The Venetian, Las Vegas, NV

• WHIR Networking Event: Austin, TX

  February 13: Austin, TX

• WHIR Networking Event: Arizona

  January 23: Phoenix, AZ

• Carly Fiorina Keynotes 7×24 Exchange Fall Conference

  A last minute reminder: The 7x24 Exchange 2013 Fall Conference gets underway Sunday at the JW Marriott San Antonio Hill County in San Antonio. This year's keynote speaker will be Carly Fiorina, the former CEO of HP.

• Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability For November 15th, 2013

  Hey, it's HighScalability time: Test your sense of scale. Is this image of something microscopic or macroscopic? Find out . Quotable Quotes: fidotron : It feels like we've gone in one big circle, where first we move the DB on to a separate machine for performance, yet now more…

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• A prolific season for Hadoop and its ecosystem

  In 4 years of writing this blog I haven't seen such a prolific month : Apache Hadoop 2.2.0 (more links here ) Apache HBase 0.96 ( here and here ) Apache Hive 0.12 (more links here ) Apache Ambari 1.4.1 Apache Pig 0.12 Apache Oozie 4.0.0 Plus Presto . Actually I don't think I've ever…

• SC13 Approaches: Penguin Computing Launches HPC Appliance

  With the Supercomputing Conference coming up next week in Denver, Penguin launches a HPC appliance, NVIDIA releases CUDA6 for simplifying Parallel Computing, and AMD introduces a 12GB supercomputing server graphics card.