The Apache Software Foundation (ASF) announces version 0.7 of the Cassandra open-source distributed database. –
The Apache Software
Foundation (ASF) has announced Apache Cassandra version 0.7, a
second-generation, open-source distributed database.
ASF officials said new features in Cassandra 0.7 include
secondary indexes, which represent an expressive way to query data through
node-local storage on the…
News Analysis: Large networks such as the one at National Autonomous University of Mexico may greatly benefit from a wireless solution that delivers distributed intelligence and maximum redundancy at the edge, rather than packing it all into centralized controllers housed in the data center. – With IEEE 802.11n significantly ratcheting up the amount of traffic
that can be generated from a wireless network, large WiFi
deployments such as the one at National Autonomous University of
Mexico may greatly benefit
from a wireless solution that delivers distributed intelligence and
maximum
…
Security in an Internet-oriented technology infrastructure requires constant vigilance and anticipating attack vectors. In this interview conducted at the MIT CIO Symposium, Akamai security expert Andy Ellis outlines the security steps an enterprise should consider for their IT infrastructure.
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At its annual conference, EMC reveals data protection software called DD Boost, for Data Domain Boost, which the company claims is the first such package to optimize and accelerate disk-based backup integrated with deduplication storage.
– EMC execs must love the month of May,
when the company can host and feed scores of partners and customers, do some
razzle-dazzling of potential buyers, and share news of new products and
services at its EMC World conference.
Usually, the event is staged in a resort-like place like Orlando,
Fl…
Data parallel programming on a distributed data grid is an important new method for overcoming performance bottlenecks for a broad class of applications. This new method is expected to have important applications in cloud computing over the next few years. Here, Knowledge Center contributor William L. Bain discusses how a distributed data grid can be used to implement powerful, Java-based applications for parallel data analysis.
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hallmark of the Information Age is the incredible amount of business
data that companies have to store and analyze. The ability to
efficiently search data for important patterns can provide an essential
competitive edge. For example, an e-commerce Website needs to be able
to monitor online sh…
MySpace has both announced and open-sourced a new technology known as Qizmt, an internally developed framework for distributed computation based on the MapReduce framework.
– MySpace has both announced and open-sourced a new technology known as Qizmt, an internally developed framework for distributed computation based on the MapReduce framework.
Created by the Data Mining team here at MySpace, Qizmt can be used
for many operations that require processing large amounts …
