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• Mesosphere aims Twitter clustering tool at the enterprise

  Apache Mesos, a software package for managing large compute clusters that's been credited with helping Twitter to kill its Fail Whale, is being primed for use in the enterprise.

• Mesosphere aims Twitter clustering tool at the enterprise

  Apache Mesos, a software package for managing large compute clusters that's been credited with helping Twitter to kill its Fail Whale, is being primed for use in the enterprise.

• Graph databases find answers for the sick and their healers

  A novel form of database that focuses on connections between entities, called a graph database, is finding a home in the health care industry.

• Australian government will go Drupal

  Tender documents issued this morning have confirmed that the Australian government will push ahead with seeking to build a whole-of-government content management system based on the open source Drupal platform.
  

• PHP keepers plot radical revision of the language

  Inspired by Facebook's efforts to speed performance of PHP, the core development team behind the popular open-source Web programming language has embarked on an effort to redesign PHP for faster performance.

• Oracle weaves Fabric for MySQL clustering

  Oracle has released a framework that allows multiple copies of the MySQL database to work in tandem, making it easier for organizations to easily run live backup databases and scale MySQL across multiple servers.

• Google Cloud previews Docker-based virtual machines

  Google is throwing its weight behind containers, an increasingly popular virtualization technology that can ease the process of spinning up applications in the cloud.

• CoreOS Linux distro lands on the Google Cloud Platform

  CoreOS, a new lightweight Linux distribution customized for massive server deployments, has found a home on the Google Cloud Platform, giving organizations an easy way to test and use the software for their clusters and distributed computer programs.

• IBM adds OpenStack to its cloud marketplace

  To make it easier for users to build their own private and hybrid cloud systems using IBM technology, the company has added its distribution of the OpenStack cloud hosting software to its recently launched online market of products and services.

• Red Hat dismisses claim of OpenStack favoritism

  Red Hat said it provides commercial support for its Linux distribution regardless of which version of OpenStack its customers are using, rejecting a report to the contrary from earlier Wednesday.

• Platfora update puts Hadoop's power in business users' hands

  Platfora is continuing to evolve its Hadoop-focused analytics platform with a series of features catering to various user roles, such as data scientists and business analysts.

• Red Hat fortifies OpenStack suite, eases management for enterprise users

  What do enterprises want to see in OpenStack? With its latest distribution of the cloud hosting software, Red Hat is betting that they want a streamlined installation process and carrier-grade reliability.

• Netcraft: Microsoft closes in on Apache Web server lead

  After almost two decades of trailing the market leader, Microsoft's Web server software is coming close to rivaling the dominance of the Apache Web server, according to the latest Netcraft survey of Internet infrastructure.

• Oracle subpoenas Comcast in connection with Solaris support lawsuit

  Oracle and Comcast are locked in a legal tussle related to Oracle's intellectual-property lawsuit against Solaris OS support providers Terix and Maintech.

• HP jumps into OpenStack fray with new Helion distribution

  Joining Red Hat, Oracle, Canonical and others, Hewlett-Packard is releasing its own distribution of the OpenStack cloud hosting software.