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50 Top Open Source Tools for Big Data Hadoop, NoSQL databases, development tools and many more open source big data projects. Email Article Print Article Comment on this article Share Articles Posted June 4, 2012 By Cynthia Harvey Submit Feedback » More Articles » (Page 1 of 3) Whenever analysts or journalists assemble lists of the top trends for this year, "big data" is almost certain to be on the list. While the catchphrase is fairly new, in one sense, big data isn't really a new concept. Computers have always worked with large and growing sets of data, and we've had databases and data warehouses for years. What is new is how much bigger that data is, how quickly it is growing and how complicated it is. Enterprises understand that the data in their systems represents a gold mine of insights that could help them improve their processes and th

Exploring the software behind Facebook, the world’s largest site   Facebook’s scaling challenge Before we get into the details, here are a few factoids to give you an idea of the scaling challenge that Facebook has to deal with: Facebook serves 570 billion page views per month (according to Google Ad Planner). There are more photos on Facebook than all other photo sites combined (including sites like Flickr). More than 3 billion photos are uploaded every month. Facebook’s systems serve 1.2 million photos per second . This doesn’t include the images served by Facebook’s CDN. More than 25 billion pieces of content (status updates, comments, etc) are shared every month. Facebook has more than 30,000 servers (and this number is from last year!) Software that helps Facebook scale In some ways Facebook is still a LAMP site (kind of), but it has had to change and extend its operation to incorporate a lot of other elements and services, and modify the approach to exis

IBM successfully creates the world’s first 7-nanometer chip It cost IBM $3 billion in research and 10 breakthroughs to make world’s first 7-nanometer chips Thanks to advances in its chip technology, IBM says it has manufactured the world’s first 7nm (nanometer) chip, arriving well ahead of competitors. This means that the minuscule electronics are so tiny that transistors on the chips are only 7 billionth of a meter in length, which makes it 1,400 times smaller than a human hair. According to IBM, this latest milestone is the result of a five year investment of $3 billion in chip research and development that the company announced last year. The development provides a ray of light over the shadowed semiconductor industry, which has strived to maintain its legendary pace of doubling transistor density every two years. Based on IBM’s research innovations, it says that its systems business will persist to use the most advanced semiconductors. However, those chips will no

Your WiFi Router Has a Superpower You Didn’t Know   If you are a regular visitor of fossBytes, you must have come across our articles like ways to fix your WiFi or the news about the recently released world’s fastest WiFi router . Today we are here with another interesting piece related to WiFi. Do you know that your WiFi router has a secret magical power? Let’s tell you about it in detail. T he electrical engineers from the University of California has found a way by which the number of people in a room could be calculated by the WiFi power measurement. This reminds me of the mobile spying technology used by Batman and Fox in the Dark Knight movie. “Our approach can estimate the number of people walking in an area, based on only the received power measurements of a WiFi link,” said Mostofi, a professor from the University of California. With this approach, we don’t need any WiFi enabled electronic communication device to count the people. To count the

5 Free Hosting Solutions For Small Web Projects     Finding an affordable hosting solution for small projects and applications is little hard. Developers face hard time in configuring the host for their projects. If you are hosting your project on some complex platform, it’s time to move it from there. A small application and project is something that we build for small test purposes only. If you are not expecting large traffic to your site then rather than spending high amount on business web hosting, it is more sensible to opt for small, affordable hosting solution. Today we have listed 5 free hosting solutions for all your hosting problems of small projects. 1. OpenShift: OpenShift is a great user-friend

12 Security Startups To Look Forward To In 2015     Saturday, January 10, 2015 :  Startup ecosystem is in boom right now. Innovators are coming up with great products that focus on some specific problems. They are addressing niche problems around them. The solutions that startups provide are great too. 2015 is going to be another hit year for startups in cyber security industry. Today we have listed twelve security startups to look for in 2015. 1. Area 1 Security: The startup was founded last year by three ex-NSA agents and other professional security experts from Disney and MIT. The company focuses on identifying targeted attacks using behavioral analysis. The company has team of experts and has ra

How to download torrent files using IDM   There may be many reasons to download torrent files using IDM. It may be that you get good speed using IDM, no issue to leech and seed the torrent, best to download small size files. But the question arises How to download torrent files using IDM? IDM can help a user to increase the download speed to 5x using IDM instead of using Torrent Software. There may be many ways you can do this. But the easiest and the best way is to give the torrent file to a website and they will convert that file to a simple file which can be downloaded easily. The best website to do this kind of stuff for free of cost is ZbigZ.com . Follow the Steps below to download a torrent file using IDM. Step 1)  Either download the torrent file, or right click on download torrent link and click on Copy Link As and copy that link. Step 2) Now open Zbigz and upload the torrent file by clicking on upload button, or paste the copied link in the text