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	Smooth like btrfs: Inside Facebook's Linux-powered infrastructure Facebook engineer Chris Mason is unequivocal about the primacy of Linux in Facebook's storage infrastructure. Read More WEBCAST: VMware VMware vCloud Hybrid Service Customer Stories Have your customers watch this video to hear first-hand how six organizations are choosing vCloud Hybrid Service to extend their on-premises VMware infrastructure to hybrid cloud, and why vCHS provides value for them. Learn more! In this Issue Amazon customizes low-cost instances for remote desktops, databases Twitter to acquire mobile advertising company TapCommerce Cloud platform simplifies Spark clusters, big data deployments Google launches 'cookie choices' site to let Europeans know how they're being tracked Databricks takes on Google streaming analysis with Spark Historical computing: The launch of the IBM System/360 HP's giant Proliant challenges big iron from IBM, Oracle HP's giant ProLiant: The good, the bad, the UEFI HP refreshes enterprise switch line WHITE PAPER: CDW Software Segments: Key Solutions There's not much point in optimizing software management if an organization makes sub-par software choices. The objective is to manage software assets, not liabilities. But having so many options can make software decisions difficult. View Now Amazon customizes low-cost instances for remote desktops, databases Amazon Web Service has launched a type of instance to reduce costs for hosted remote desktops and small databases that don't consistently use high levels of CPU power, but every now and then need better performance. Read More Twitter to acquire mobile advertising company TapCommerce Twitter said Monday it has agreed to acquire TapCommerce a mobile advertising company focused on re-engaging people who have downloaded advertisers' apps. Read More Cloud platform simplifies Spark clusters, big data deployments In his keynote at Spark Summit 2014 in San Francisco today, Databricks CEO Ion Stoica unveiled Databricks Cloud, a cloud platform built around the Apache Spark open source processing engine for big data. Read More Google launches 'cookie choices' site to let Europeans know how they're being tracked Google has launched a new site, CookieChoices.org, to help visitors of European sites learn more about the digital breadcrumbs they leave behind through cookies. Read More WHITE PAPER: SAS Big Data in Big Companies Big data is one of the most promising business trends of the decade, yet it invites as many new questions as it does opportunities: What is big data? How is it different than what we've done? Where do we begin? Big Data in Big Companies, a joint research report by Tom Davenport and Jill Dyché, offers answers. Learn more Databricks takes on Google streaming analysis with Spark Taking on Google, Databricks plans to offer its own cloud service for analyzing live data streams, one based on the Apache Spark software. Read More Historical computing: The launch of the IBM System/360 In 1964 IBM announced one of the most famous mainframes ever, the IBM System/360 which, on the low end versions ran at 0.0018 to 0.034 MIPS. For the time, that was serious performance ... in comparison, the iMac I'm writing this on runs at 92,100 MIPS. Read More HP's giant Proliant challenges big iron from IBM, Oracle HP's new Proliant challenges big iron from IBM and Oracle with 60-core, 4U, high-performance hardware. Read More HP's giant ProLiant: The good, the bad, the UEFI Massive 60-core DL580 Gen8 challenges big iron from IBM, Oracle. Read More HP refreshes enterprise switch line HP this week is refreshing its 5400 series switch line with new chassis that features double the switching capacity of its predecessor. Read More
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