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Google is expanding its line of Chrome hardware for business users with “Chromebox for meetings,” a video conferencing system that costs $999 and up. via Chromebox for meetings, a $999 video conferencing system from Google | Ars Technica.

Amazon Web Services has allowed countless startup companies to ramp up back-end infrastructure quickly and cost effectively. But, at a point, at least for some companies, AWS becomes too clunky and … too expensive. via Here’s why this startup ditched Amazon Web Services – GeekWire.

Configuring PostFix to use a SmarthostRouting all mails to a smarthost :These instructions assume the postfixconfig files live in /etc/postfix/main.cfIn/etc/postfix/main.cfadd the line:relayhost = mxsrv1.spamgateway.comodo.com:587Routing all mails for a specific domain to a smarthost : via Configuration PostFix to Use a Smarthost, SMTP Server, Spam Gateway, Comodo.

When building applications using Hadoop, it is common to have input data from various sources coming in various formats. In his presentation, “New Tools for Building Applications on Apache Hadoop”, Eli Collins, tech lead for Cloudera’s Platform Team overviews how to build better products with Hadoop and various tools that can help, such as Apache …

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With all custom fields, an easy-to-use jQuery-inspired API, and a powerful selector engine, ProcessWire will rise to any task. ProcessWire is a free PHP5 content management system and framework (open source CMS/CMF) built to save you time and work the way you do. Stop trying to bend other open source CMS platforms to your will …

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Hadoop Tutorial Hadoop MapReduce is a software framework for writing applications that process vast amounts of data (multi-petabyte datasets) in parallel on large clusters consisting of thousands of nodes of commodity hardware in a reliable, fault-tolerant manner. via Overview.

Introduction Welcome to the Yahoo! Hadoop tutorial! This series of tutorial documents will walk you through many aspects of the Apache Hadoop system. You will be shown how to set up simple and advanced cluster configurations, use the distributed file system, and develop complex Hadoop MapReduce applications. Other related systems are also reviewed. via Hadoop …

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Beyond Batch: The Evolution of the Hadoop Ecosystem Hadoop Co-founder Doug Cutting explains how the Hadoop ecosystem has expanded and evolved into a much larger Big Data platform with Hadoop at its center. via Beyond Batch: The Evolution of the Hadoop Ecosystem – Doug Cutting.