• Highlights from Open Compute Summit V: Servers, Storage and Networks

  The excitement of Open Compute Summit V continues with a growing number of companies joining the project, peaking enterprise interest in the efficient hardware generated by the Open Compute movement. Here's our photo essay of last week's event in San Jose.

• AWS Week in Review - January 27, 2014

  Let's take a quick look at what happened in AWS-land last week: Monday, January 27 We announced that AWS CloudFormation now supports Auto Scaling Scheduled Actions and DynamoDB Secondary Indexes. We announced a new Financial Services Category in the AWS...

• SQL on Hadoop: An overview of frameworks and their applicability

  SQL on Hadoop: An overview of frameworks and their applicability : An overview of the 3 SQL-on-Hadoop execution models — batch (10s of minutes and up), interactive (up to minutes), operational (sub-second), their applicability in the field of applications, and the main characteristics of the…

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• Open Compute Gets Down to Business, With New License and Certifications

  As it continues to grow, The Open Compute Project is moving closer to a tipping point that creates lasting change in how IT equipment is built and sold. This raises a new set of questions: Can the revolution give birth to successful businesses?

• How Google Backs Up the Internet Along With Exabytes of Other Data

  Raymond Blum leads a team of Site Reliability Engineers charged with keeping Google's data secret and keeping it safe. Of course Google would never say how much data this actually is, but from comments it seems that it is not yet a yottabyte , but is many exabytes in size. GMail alone is…

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• Digitally revamped atlas of historical geography, from 1932

  In 1932, Charles O. Paullin and John K. Wright published Atlas of the Historical Geography of the United States, a …

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