= 2011-07-26 =

== Microsoft & Big Data ==

 * <參考來源> 2011-07-18 : [http://www.readwriteweb.com/cloud/2011/07/mapreduce-for-microsoft-azure.php Microsoft Research Releases Another Hadoop Alternative for Azure]
 * [http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/projects/azure/daytona.aspx Project Daytona] - Iterative '''MapReduce''' on Windows Azure
 * [http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?id=13615 LINQ to HPC] - 先前叫做 Dryad，是用來跟 Hadoop 打對台的！
 * [http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/ff796231.aspx Windows Azure Table Storage] - 類似 Google BigTable 或 HBase
 * [http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/projects/azure/datascope.aspx Excel DataScope] - Cloud-scale data analytics from Excel - 定位也許類似 Hive
 * [http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/projects/probase/ Probase] - learning platform/knowledge base - 感覺比較偏語意分析 Semantics Analysis，定位接近 Mahout
 * [http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/projects/trinity/ Trinity] - Graph Database ([wiki:jazz/11-03-23 2011-03-23], [wiki:jazz/NoSQL NoSQL])
 * [http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/Introduction-to-Project-Barcelona Project Barcelona] - an enterprise search system - 企業級搜尋引擎，打算跟 Apache Solr 對決！

== Virtualization ==

 * [http://www.readwriteweb.com/cloud/2011/07/infographic-vmware-infographic.php VMware Virtualization is Everywhere] - 到處都是 VMWare 虛擬化！
 * [[Image(http://rww.readwriteweb.netdna-cdn.com/cloud/VMWare_vSphere_infographic_July2011.jpg)]]