MapR teams with Canonical to deliver Hadoop on Ubuntu

MapR Technologies, Inc. and Canonical, the organization behind the Ubuntu operating system, have announced a partnership to package and make available for download an integrated offering of the MapR M3 Edition for Apache Hadoop with Ubuntu. Canonical and MapR are also working to develop a Juju Charm that can be used by OpenStack and other customers to easily deploy MapR into their environments.

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VMTurbo builds momentum

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SoftLayer powers online games

In the hypercompetitive online gaming world a couple of milliseconds of lag can be the difference between virtual life and death, and the inability to scale up with demand can kill an entire game title. In the last two quarters, more than 60 new gaming companies have moved to SoftLayer’s global platform, frequently migrating from commodity cloud platforms because of problems with cost, latency, availability and raw performance.

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