Google introduced the MapReduce algorithm to perform massively parallel processing of very large data sets using clusters of commodity hardware. MapReduce is a core Google technology and key to ...

Facebook has shared some more behind-the-scenes information about just how the social network is built, this time centered around the enormous amount of data that it collects. Over half a petabyte of ...

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An organization’s Big Data is key to customer insight and product design superiority. The story about the growth of Big Data enabling the crunching of vast amounts of data has been well covered in the ...

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Turning an entire paradigm on its head, an international group of researchers has figured out how to implement cloud computing’s most widely-used algorithm, one that’s usually deployed in giant, ...