Last fall, Twitter announced a partnership with Gnip , making the latter company the only commercial provider of the Twitter activity stream. And although the “firehose” metaphor has been beaten to death, says Gnip CEO Jud Valeski, it still holds true. Valeski spoke today at Gluecon about the challenges of handling the firehose – what it means to process high volume, real-time data streams and to be able to do so “in a consistent and predictable manner.” Sponsor Recent statistics demonstrate just how high a volume this Twitter data really is.
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Gnip CEO on the Challenges of Handling the Real-Time, Big Data Firehose
A content delivery network (CDN) is fine for distributing the data from a Web page but the advent of a new programming interface will help create a new method for pushing data to the edge of the network.
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A CDN-Style Service for APIs
Rackspace is offering a hosted desktop virtualization service with Citrix that has a clear intent. It provides a way to virtualize all those tablets and smartphones that people are bringing to work. It also takes the burden off the enterprise, which is having considerable issues with figuring out how to bring together the multiple parties that are needed to offer a virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) solution.
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Rackspace and Citrix: Virtualization for Smartphones and Tablets
