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Who'd have guessed that data centers were like Fight Club? Trying to chart the cloud’s geography can be daunting, a task that is further complicated by security concerns. “It’s like ‘Fight Club,’ ” says Rich Miller, whose Web site, Data Center Knowledge, tracks the industry. “The first
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Amazon Web Services today announced Amazon Elastic MapReduce, a new member of the Amazon web services family designed to help users process vast amounts of data using the divide-and-conquer parallel processing approach made famous by Google's MapReduce and as implemented in the Apache Hadoop project. Background on Hadoop
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Continuing to steadily and patiently execute on their Amazon Web Services vision, Amazon recently announced SimpleDB, a web service for running queries in real time against structured data. It's the first instance of which I'm aware of someone offering DBMS-level services in the cloud. Arguably, GoogleBase
