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Ballmer: Microsoft has 1 Million Servers » Data Center Knowledge

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Even Facebook, which has open sourced much of its designs for its data center hardware but remains vague about its server count, saying only that it operates “hundreds of thousands” of machines. wow microsoft should be paying more than $1 billion for licensing then. December 2008 (94). November 2008 (103).

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DataStax Raises $45 million for Big Databases » Data Center.

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Cloudera announced Sentry – a new Apache licensed open source project that delivers the industry’s first fine-grained authorization framework for Hadoop. December 2008 (94). November 2008 (103). October 2008 (156). September 2008 (139). August 2008 (142). July 2008 (134).

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Should the OpenStack Community Embrace Amazon & Google?

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Should the OpenStack community focus on creating an open source alternative to Amazon and Google? Dubbed in the media as “the cloud wars,” there are a handful of open source frameworks competing (or not, depending on who you ask). December 2008 (94). November 2008 (103). October 2008 (156).

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