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Facebook trapped in MySQL ‘fate worse than death’ (Derrick Harris/GigaOM)

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Derrick Harris / GigaOM:
Facebook trapped in MySQL ‘fate worse than death’  —  According to database pioneer Michael Stonebraker, Facebook is operating a huge, complex MySQL implementation equivalent to “a fate worse than death,” and the only way out is “bite the bullet and rewrite everything.”

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Cisco Displays New Cloud Data Center, Touts Efficiency (Derrick Harris/GigaOM)

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Derrick Harris / GigaOM:
Cisco Displays New Cloud Data Center, Touts Efficiency  —  Data Center Hall in Cisco’s new green data center.  —  Cisco today took the covers off a new Allen, Texas, data center that will serve as the foundation for Cisco’s private cloud computing effort, which it calls Cisco Elastic IT Services.

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