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Data storage is inexpensive—you can store a terabyte of data on a disk costing $50 or less. But reading that disk end-to-end could take six hours, according to Matei Zaharia, an assistant ...

Loosely coupled application servers are a natural application for first-generation blade servers- essentially a repackaging of the widely deployed single board 1U server. However, to move beyond basic ...

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