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Archive for November 15th, 2007

I.B.M. to Push ‘Cloud Computing,’ Using Data From Afar - New York Times

Thursday, November 15th, 2007

I.B.M. to Push ‘Cloud Computing,’ Using Data From Afar - New York Times
The software that I.B.M. is packaging in its cloud offering is called Hadoop, running on the Linux operating system. Hadoop is based on an open-source search project called Nutch, and an open-source version of Google’s MapReduce software for spreading complex computer tasks [...]

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Atlanta’s Drought

Thursday, November 15th, 2007

So, I’m in Atlanta for the ApacheCon conference (which is going great) at the Westin hotel.   I drove in from Raleigh.   Since pretty much all of the southeast is under severe drought conditions (Atlanta being one of the worst hit), I expected to at least be made aware of it when I checked in [...]

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