• Five decades of warm and cold weather anomalies

  This year's polar vortex churned up some global warming skeptics, but as we know, it's more useful to look at …

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• VMware Launches Horizon 6

  VMware released of VMware Horizon 6, an integrated solution that delivers published applications and desktops on a single platform. The new release is a comprehensive desktop solution with centralized management of any type of enterprise application and desktop. Read More

• Intel kills a Hadoop and feeds another

  I seriously doubt you could have missed the 2nd part of this, but here's the shortest executive summary: Intel has killed its own distribution of Hadoop — is there anyone that would disagree this is a good idea? Intel has invested $740mil in Cloudera (for 18%) — there's no typo. 740…

• Keeping Money in the Bank: Managing Data Protection in Today's Data-Driven World

  By leveraging the best practices in storage outlined in this post, organizations can spend more time on innovation and less on managing inefficient infrastructure, writes Tom O'Brien of IBM Tivoli Storage Manager. Read More

• Porn views for red versus blue states

  Pornhub continues their analysis of porn viewing demographics in their latest comparison of pageviews per capita between red and blue …

• Scaling the Facebook data warehouse to 300 PB

  Scaling the Facebook data warehouse to 300 PB : Fascinating read, raising interesting observations on different levels: At Facebook, data warehouse means Hadoop and Hive. Our warehouse stores upwards of 300 PB of Hive data, with an incoming dailyrate of about 600 TB. I don't see how…