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[...] as collecting and aggregating data on the web has made companies like Facebook, Amazon and Google darlings of investors, large enterprises are waking up to the potential of the “big data” they have locked up [...]

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Mon, 17 Aug 2009 16:11:21 +0000

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[...] How Yahoo, Facebook, Amazon & Google Think About Big Data – Collectively, Yahoo, Facebook, Amazon and Google are rewriting the handbook for big data. Startups intending to reach these proportions must also change their thinking about data, and enterprises need this model for internal deployments as a way to retain an economic edge.The four leading web giants have designed systems from scratch, evidence that workloads have altered, business models are different, and economies have changed — all demanding a new approach. [...]

By: Hugo Angelmar

Hugo Angelmar — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 04:50:58 +0000

I was quite impressed when I took a look at Amazon’s Web Services (which implement’s Google’s Map Reduce for some of its operations) and Haystack. The companies above also do a great job sharing the constraints and requirements they address and how they go about solving them. Great brief on the topic Gary.

By: David Robins

David Robins — Sun, 16 Aug 2009 09:42:15 +0000

Great article! This applies to our business at http://www.binfire.com perfectly. We already have passed a few tetra bytes of storage and our storage needs are growing rapidly. We have decided to look into Amazon EC2 and S3 for future expansion.