A few weeks ago, when our own “Arscoin” cryptocurrency was first minted, it looked like Senior Reviews Editor Lee Hutchinson would control the majority of the coins. He started mining early, and he has a crowd of Linux servers sitting in his closet that can outrun the all-in-one desktops and power-sipping Ultrabooks most of us have on …
People don’t want ads, they want memories. To shift from spammy marketing to providing experiences, companies like Anheuser-Busch, Spotify, NPR, and Wired promoted 80,000 events in 2013 with a little startup called Splash. In co-founder Ben Hindman’s first in-depth interview, he tells me how Splash’s event platform is challenging bland incumbents with its beautifully designed …
MongoDB is working on tools to make it easier to manage large clusters of, say, 100 servers. via MongoDB chief: Why the clock’s ticking for relational databases | ZDNet.
Manage billions of events and process hundreds of thousands of new events every second. All of the infrastructure runs in your own data center: No need to worry about sensitive data leaving your company or shipping your logs away over the internet. via Graylog2 – Open source log management and data analytics.
Piston OpenStack 3.0: The Last OpenStack® Product You’ll Ever Try via Piston OpenStack 3.0: The Last OpenStack® Product You’ll Ever Try | Piston Cloud Computing.
Facebook looks and feels like a single application, like Microsoft Word or Adobe Photoshop. But behind the scenes, in the company’s data centers, you’ll find that the world’s most popular social network is really a multitude of different applications working in concert. via Facebook Boosts Its Open Source Mojo With New Project | Wired Enterprise …
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One alternative to buying expensive storage-area networks or other hardware-based dedicated storage is to deploy open source storage software on existing server hardware. For this test, we evaluated three such open source storage products, GlusterFS 3.3, Ceph 0.72 and Apache Hadoop 2.2.0. via Storage on a budget: GlusterFS shines in open source storage test – …
Gantry is a comprehensive set of building blocks to enable the rapid development and realization of a design into a flexible and powerful web platform theme. via What Is Gantry?.
Splice Machine is the only transactional SQL-on-Hadoop database for real-time Big Data applications. via Splice Machine – The Real-Time SQL-on-Hadoop Database.