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Facebook will follow up on its Open Compute intiiatiive with a new initiative to improve its data storage. According to Fast Company , the emphasis on storage is needed due to the continued sheer volume of data that Facebook’s users are producing. Those hundreds of millions of users take a lot of pictures

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Data Storage is Facebook’s Next Initiative

What are the alternatives to a private cloud?

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A Google App Engine for the Enterprise

Salesforce.com ’s Reid Carlberg developed a new app using Force.com to create tournament brackets for events such as the NCAA Basketball championships, that annual March event starting next week that can stir any office into a frenzy of excitement. Brackets is an app that creates brackets for a tournament that in turn becomes a point-based game based on participants predictions.

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Brackets: A Force.com App for March Madness and Tournaments Anywhere