If you've ever gotten a more spacious closet, a larger desk, or even a bigger house, you've probably been surprised at how quickly it fills up and no longer seems quite big enough. Business computers ...

What is a distributed system? A distributed system is a collection of independent computers that appear to the user as a single coherent system. To accomplish a common objective, the computers in a ...

For decades, the data center was a centralized place. As AI shifts to an everyday tool, that model is changing. We are moving toward a world of distributed data centers.

Today, Samsung Next, the venture capital arm of Samsung Electronics, announced it is making a strategic investment in Seattle-based Expanso, a startup looking to power distributed data processing. The ...

The Big-data refers to the large-scale distributed data processing applications that operate on unusually huge amounts of data. Google’s Map Reduce and Apache’s Map Reduce, its open-source ...

Suppose you want to run regular statistical analyses on your Web site’s traffic log data — several hundred terabytes, updated weekly. (Don’t laugh. This is not unheard of for popular Web sites.) ...