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    1. IDC Big Data Alone Will Drive Billions in storage sales

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      IDC Big Data Alone Will Drive Billions in storage sales

      C is predicting a $6 billion big-data storage market by 2016, part of an overall big data market worth nearly $24 billion.

      Big data isn’t just about Hadoop distributions and analytics software — you also need servers to process it and disks on which to store it. On Tuesday, research firm IDC quantified the market for the latter aspect, predicting that the business of selling storage into big data deployments will be worth nearly $6 billion in 2016, up from just $379.9 million in 2011.

      However, as a press release explaining the new report highlighted, defining “storage” for the purposes of big data is an exercise in subjectivity. There are systems for archiving data, and systems for storing post-processed data and systems — like the Hadoop Distributed File System — that put storage on the same servers that process data. There also are storage systems designed for operational data ...

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    5. Microsoft's Big Data boss heads to VC, Madrona Group

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      Microsoft's Big Data boss heads to VC, Madrona Group

      GigaOm posts on Microsoft's Big Data Boss going to VC, Madrona Group. Microsoft’s big data boss heads to Madrona Venture Group by Derrick Harris   1 HOUR AGO No Comments A A SUMMARY: Microsoft vet and data platform VP Ted Kummert is joining Madrona Venture Group as a venture partner. As VCs aim to boost their enterprise investments, they’re snatching up talent from big IT. Ted Kummert, a 23-year Microsoft veteran and former corporate vice president of the company’s Data Platform Group, has left Microsoft to become a partner at Madrona Venture Group. Kummert led the development of numerous data products at Microsoft, including SQL Server, Windows Azure data services and the company’s growing portfolio of big data offerings. Ted spent a bunch of time as VP of MSN operations before his stint in Biztalk and SQL. I was wondering how much longer Ted was going ...

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    10. 7 reasons why Europe really matters to cloud computing

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      7 reasons why Europe really matters to cloud computing

      Cloud computing tends to be a very North America-centric topic, if only because so many of the biggest providers of cloud resources and services are based in the United States. That’s fair enough — the business side of things is very important — but other continents, particularly Europe, have a lot more to bring to the table than just seemingly restrictive data privacy laws. We’ll discuss many of the finer points of European cloud computing and web infrastructure at our Structure: Europe event Oct. 16 and 17 in Amsterdam, both business and technological. To whet your appetite, though, here are seven reasons why Europe is a lot more important than many people might think.

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      Mentions: Amazon.com Europe Google

    15. 5 Las Vegas startups you need to know

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      5 Las Vegas startups you need to know

      The vision of a Silicon Strip is coming along nicely. Just about a year into a concerted effort to build a technology scene in Las Vegas, startups of all types are already forming in Las Vegas and moving to the city. Last weekend, in fact, SuperNAP data center operator Switch Communications hosted the second-annual Startup Weekend Las Vegas. Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh’s Vegas Tech Fund put up $500,000 for the winning team for the upcoming Crowdstart LV competition into which the Startup Weekend winner — which ended up being a password-management app called Launch Key — gets automatic entry. Switch actually has its own venture fund, too, as well as multiple programs designed to bring high-tech jobs to the city.

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    16. Meet the company building AOL’s micro data centers

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      Meet the company building AOL’s micro data centers

      Elliptical Mobile Solutions is hardly a household name in the data center world, but don’t bet against it becoming one. The Chandler, Ariz.-based company that started inside a founder’s garage builds one of the world’s smallest data centers and has already secured some big-name customers including, most famously, AOL. While bigger data centers seem to be better for webscale companies such as Google and Facebook, many are happy to grow on a lot smaller scale — about 105 cubic feet at a time.

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    17. AOL building refrigerator-sized data centers

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      AOL building refrigerator-sized data centers

      AOL is taking its flexible infrastructure strategy to a whole new level of flexibility by building data centers about the size of French door refrigerators. AOL Services CTO Mike Manos wrote about the units — part of a project code-named “Nibiru” internally — in his blog on Thursday, proclaiming July 4 (the day the first one arrived) AOL’s Data Center Independence Day. If they work as planned, AOL will be able to deploy new services and infrastructure when and where needed with little more than an electrical outlet required.

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    20. Facebook, eBay win awards for data center efficiency

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      Facebook, eBay win awards for data center efficiency

      Facebook and eBay are among the winners of this year’s Green Enterprise IT Awards, which the Uptime Institute doles out for advancements in the world of energy-efficient data centers. Dell and eBay took home the award for “Modular Data Center Deployment” for its Project Mercury data center in downtown Phoenix. That data center, which I profiled earlier this month, makes use of standardized racks of gear on the floor and of high-powered but high-efficiency data center modules on the roof. It currently has two Dell modules and two HP units in place, but is looking to add seven more as its computing needs ramp up. Because they’re so efficient, the entire facility’s Power Usage Effectiveness (PUE) rating, which gauges the percentage of power used for tasks other than computing, falls with each new module.

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    21. How IO is trying to build modular data centers for the rest of us

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      How IO is trying to build modular data centers for the rest of us

      IO Data Centers wants to make it faster, cheaper and easier for companies to add computing capacity. The Phoenix, Ariz.-based company has made a large-scale shift from selling traditional data center capacity to selling its own brand of modular data centers that can sit just about anywhere, and that can be filled with servers one rack at a time. The units, called IO.Anywhere modules, are designed for smaller-scale deployments and those requiring less customization than the modular units filling up eBay’s cutting-edge data center just a few miles to the west of IO’s headquarters, but the idea is the same.

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    22. Making the web more efficient, a thousand servers at a time

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      Making the web more efficient, a thousand servers at a time

      Peak efficiency at a webscale data center feels like a blast furnace. I experienced it firsthand on the rooftop of eBay’s new Project Mercury data center in downtown Phoenix. It was hot enough standing on a grated-steel roof with the sun beating down on an 86-degree day. Then I stepped into the hot aisle of Dell Modular Data Center and 1,920 servers blasted 115-degree air right in my face. If eBay’s Dean Nelson has his way, that was just the beginning. His future is one of ever-greater density in data centers driving ever-greater efficiency, and he’s relying on modular data centers like the ones Dell has provided to get him there.

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    23. Under the covers of eBay’s big data operation

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      Under the covers of eBay’s big data operation

      For online auction powerhouse eBay, big data is serious business. The company has 100 million active users globally, 300 million live listings at any time (and it archives them all), receives 2 billion page views daily, and handles 250 million search queries and 75 billion database calls a day. How does eBay make sense of all this activity? With Hadoop, of course. Hugh Williams is VP of experience, search and platforms at eBay. His team is responsible for theentire eBay experience from the moment users hit the site until moment they make a purchase, from code to data center automation to building new picture-hosting platforms. If it has to do with driving traffic to eBay and improving the customer experience, Williams’ team builds it. But in order to know what to build and how to build it, the team needs insight into what customers want and what they’re doing.

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    24. Grading my cloud predictions for 2011: How’d I do?

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      Grading my cloud predictions for 2011: How’d I do?
      I made a lot of predictions about cloud computing and the general IT infrastructure space heading into 2011, and I impressed myself with my skills of prognostication. Of course, some might have been no-brainers, and it’s possible I’m just grading myself too generously, so I’ll let readers be the judges. For your assessment, here’s what I predicted (the full predictions are all available on GigaOM Pro, subscription required) and a synopsis of what actually happened. Comment away. 5 trends not to expect Ubiquitous cloud adoption. This might be one of those no-brainers. We certainly heard a lot more about large enterprises experimenting with the cloud this year, but we’re still nowhere near ubiquity, especially when it comes to serious applications. I’d argue we’re getting there, however, as Amazon Web Services’ incessant enterprise push makes it more appealing and newcomers such as Virtustream successfully ...
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