Facebook’s decision to release under open source a large-scale data management project similar to - and inspired by - Google’s BigTable has received backing from an unusual quarter: Microsoft.
Data center futures architect and distinguished database developer James Hamilton, has complemented the pimply faced social network for releasing what he said “looks like a well-engineered system.”
Hamilton [...]
The digital doomsday is round the corner. In exactly 1,273 days there will be Web chaos in the world as we run out of Internet addresses.
More than 85 per cent of the available addresses have already been allocated and the rest will run out by 2011, according to a prediction by the Organisation for Economic [...]
The Groom Lake Base is this top-secret military base located 90 miles north of Las Vegas (which is in Nevada). It’s in grid number 51 of the Nevada Test Site, so it’s called Area 51. The United States Air Force Flight Test Center controls the base. It’s best known for testing exotic aircraft [...]
Where do winning ideas come from? For most companies, the answer is from a select group of people in Research and Development, new product development (NPD), or marketing.
Today, however, a growing number of organisations are harnessing the power of the web to capitalise on the wealth of ideas among their customers and that often neglected [...]
Technology research company Forrester predicts that by 2013, social software, the application of Web 2.0 for the enterprise, will grow at an annual rate of 43 per cent per year. This is quickly becoming the fastest growing sector in the enterprise software industry. However, many people are confused by what Web 2.0 is and its [...]
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