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When To Use Containers Or Virtual Machines, And Why
Docker is the new kid on the virtualization and containerization block. …
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Lack Of Legacy Lets Capital One Build Nimble Infrastructure
Not all upstarts are founded in the tech industry, and not all of them within the last decade, either. …
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Bridging the Large-Scale Data Analysis Language Divide
As the needs for ever faster analytics on growing datasets continue to mount, the overwhelming number of projects, startups, and pushes from established companies to find new ways to process and manage data climb as well. …
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VMware Blunts Container Attack With Bonneville VM
Having made its fortunes virtualizing the X86 servers at some 500,000 customers worldwide, there is no bigger threat to the continued financial success of server virtualization and cloud player VMware than the wild enthusiasm that software development teams have for Docker containers. …
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How Facebook “Hack” is Upending Programming Efficiency
There is a clever combination of language and platform development rolling out of Facebook engineering in the form of HHVM and the Hack programming language—and what is working for production users of this code base inside Facebook, is also powering production jobs at Baidu, Box, and Wikipedia. …
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Move Over Hadoop, IBM Has a New Spark
Although Spark has garnered a reputation as being a real-time analytics engine that is married to Hadoop, its life before being glued to that framework offers a different story. …
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SQL Will Inevitably Come To NoSQL Databases
The name might be short for Not Only SQL, but to be a proper database that can be used by normal enterprises and not just by hyperscalers with their fleets of PhDs, any database, whether it is a relational or NoSQL, has to be able to support the Structured Query Language that has been associated with relational databases from day one. …
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Startup Weaves Software Mesh to Net Hybrid Systems
For some users in high performance computing and a growing range of deep learning and data-intensive application segments, the shift toward mixed (heterogeneous) architectures is becoming more common. …
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Squeezing Performance Out Of Complex Software
When all is said and done, the performance of applications matters more than any other technical aspect that drives them. …
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OpenStack Aims Magnum At Containers
Software containers are different from virtual machines and the hypervisers that host them, and they need a very different set of management tools to use them in large scale enterprise, hyperscale, and cloud environments. …