Early on Halloween morning, members of Facebook's Computer Emergency Response Team received an urgent e-mail from an FBI special agent who regularly briefs them on security matters. The e-mail contained a Facebook link to a PHP script that appeared to give anyone who knew its location unfettered access to the site's front-end system. It also referenced a suspicious IP address that suggested criminal hackers ...

In just over 7 years Hadoop has progressed from a research project on web scale search to a widespread foundational infrastructure and analytics platform for many Web 2.0 companies and, increasingly, enterprises. So where does Hadoop go next? Hadoop was created to address the problem of massive storage and processing scalability at very low costs, by: • Moving computation to the data instead of moving the d ...

As we roll into 2013, a general truth dawns unto us, as we peer into our dashboards with various financial and market graphs and numbers - the truth that the year 2013 would be the year of the “Big Data Analytics”. 2012 will be known as the year of the POCs’ in the Big Data space, where we, consulting companies and product companies as well, worked tirelessly to prove the concepts and validate the promises ...

The Harvard Business Review called it the “sexiest job of the 21st century.” Now, SiSense and Microsoft are bringing all these sexy data scientists together at Big Data Date Night, just in time for Valentine’s Day. The event will include a keynote, lightning presentations from guest speakers, and networking opportunities for attendees. [button color="red" link="http://bigdatadatenight.eventbrite.com/" size= ...

So you’ve got a great job that’s waiting to be filled at your company, and you decide you want to tap into thealready measured power of social media recruiting. You start to wrestle with the big kahuna, LinkedIn, and you’re also covering niche social media sites for your industry. But you may be ignoring an intensely powerful tool hiding right under your nose — Facebook. The social media mega-site has prove ...

Users share billions of pieces of content daily on Facebook, and it’s the data infrastructure team's job to analyze that data so we can present it to those users and their friends in the quickest and most relevant manner. This requires a lot of infrastructure and supporting data, so much so that we need to move that data periodically to ever larger data centers. Just last month, the data infrastructure team ...

Facebook engineers have tested a 64-core specialty chip from Tilera and found it more efficient for grabbing data quickly from key value stores. This test and others performed across the industry on alternatives to x86 chips may galvanize the creation of new benchmarks for the server industry as the debate of which architecture works best for webscale and cloud computing rages. The paper, issued Monday, and ...

New to the Open Source Conference this year is OSCON Data, for developers pioneering the evolving architectures and tools to manage data. See how Hadoop is used to optimize scalability and reliability at Yahoo. Find out how Facebook utilizes HBase to manage real-time messaging. Why Netflix moved from relational DBs to NoSQL cloud systems for personalized movie choosing. The in-depth sessions at OSCON Data, ...

The Cloud means different things to different people. Everyone has their own views of the Cloud and myriad usage patterns have evolved, even while new and innovative options are emerging everyday. The standard definition of Cloud computing, as quoted in Wikipedia: So in essence, the Cloud is an environment where all aspects of computing are availed of as a service and consumers, be they individuals or busin ...

Innovation around the management of large data sets is coming from the cloud, such as through MapReduce and Hadoop InfoWorld's own Pete Babb provided some good coverage around the "analytics cloud" recently debuted by IBM, called Blue Insight. You can think of Blue Insight as a system that gathers data from those who use it and externalizes the data to those who need it, doing so on a cloud -- a private clo ...