Posted by Seth on January 10th, 2008
via Niall Kennedy: “Google currently processes over 20 petabytes of data per day through an average of 100,000 MapReduce jobs spread across its massive computing clusters.”
That’s massive. 20 petabytes = 20,000,000,000,000,000 bytes. That’s a lot of zero’s (and one’s).
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Posted by Seth on January 8th, 2008
Microsoft announced Tuesday that it will offer US$1.2 billion in cash for Fast Search and Transfer (FAST). FAST is a leading player in the enterprise search market, born out of AltaVista / AllTheWeb in the early dot-com bubble.
This is a big announcement, likely to trigger a consolidation in the search market.
Coverage in TechCrunch and ZDNet.
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