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Big Data: The Hadoop Business Case

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The Internet is overloaded with definitions, characteristics, and benefits; however, few discussions synthesize all three of these topics in one place. Scour the internet and you will find that there are other, less commonly discussed but relevant characteristics associated with Big Data to include Veracity and Volatility [2].

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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. The Internet disagrees, as our examination of Who Has the Most Servers? Disaster Recovery. Ruchira Sahan.

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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). Disaster Recovery. Cloud Wars. Silicon Valley. North Carolina.

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