Cloud Computing: The 10 Most Popular Data Center Stories of 2014
January 2, 2015
Grazed from DataCenterKnowledge. Author: Bri Pennington.
From Google abandoning MapReduce to Facebook switching off its data center, here’s a look back at the 10 most popular articles on Data Center Knowledge during 2014. Enjoy!
Google Dumps MapReduce in Favor of New Hyper-Scale Analytics System – Google has abandoned MapReduce, the system for running data analytics jobs spread across many servers the company developed and later open sourced, in favor of a new cloud analytics system it has built called Cloud Dataflow…
The Home Data Center: Man Cave for the Internet Age – In the ultimate manifestation of the “server hugger” who wants to be close to their equipment, a number of hobbyists and IT professionals have set up data centers in their home, creating server rooms in garages, basements and home offices…
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