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Administrators of big databases, rejoice. The Apache Software Foundation just unveiled Apache Cassandra 1.2, a high-performance NoSQL database with tons of new features, including version three of the Cassandra Query Language.

There's more than one way to handle massive amounts of information on web servers. You could move to a more expensive server – or you could add more inexpensive servers. The latest activity between the Apache Software Foundation, Dell, and Calxeda aim to approach the same problem at the microprocessor level.

Using open source software brings with it many benefits: rapid improvements, help from a strong community, lower costs, the ability to hack right into the code to fix problems, and more. Unfortunately, there's a certain attitude that often comes with it that is rather less than helpful to those in corporate situations.

If you're looking for open source solutions for handling large amounts of data in the cloud, VMware's latest project is aimed right at you. It's an open source project called Serengeti, designed to assist large companies in the deployment, management, and scaling of Apache Hadoop in virtual and cloud environments.

SAP, an industry leading provider of enterprise application software for businesses of varying sizes and industries, recently used the SAPPHIRE NOW conference in Orlando, Florida, to announce breakthroughs in terms of Hadoop integration. The company also used the conference to reveal examples of advantages offered to customers who have used big data setups based on SAP’s real-time data platform, and also introduced a new big data partner council.

Apache Hadoop, the open source data management software that helps organizations analyze massive volumes of structured and unstructured data, is a very hot topic across the tech industry. Employed by such big named websites as eBay, Facebook, and Yahoo, Hadoop is being tagged by many as one of the most desired tech skills for 2012.

This tutorial will teach you, in a straightforward manner, how to install Xampp (Windows, Apache, MySQL, PHP, Perl) on a computer using a Windows operating system, and install Joomla on it to test and develop your own website or blog.

In this tutorial, you will learn how to work with Wordpress in a XAMPP (X, Apache, MySQL, PHP, and PERL) environment, including deployment and migration tips and techniques.

If you use the Apache Camel messaging framework, FuseSource has some good news for you. It just released a GUI for the open source system.

This is an introductory tutorial that teaches you useful and easy practices you can use to reduce website server load. It is applicable to websites hosted on Apache web servers, preferably using Cpanel. It also assumes that you are using PHP as your server side scripting language.

With the abundance of communication between the browser and a server in these days of AJAX and JSON data interchange, there has never been a better time to get your own development web server set up so that you can test all those dynamic scripts you’re writing. This article will show you how to do it using some of the most popular software.

In this conclusion to a six-part series on Apache configuration and installation, you will learn how to use chroot to put Apache in jail, how to prepare PHP to work in jail, and more. This article is excerpted from chapter two of Apache Security, written by Ivan Ristic (O'Reilly; ISBN: 0596007248). Copyright © 2006 O'Reilly Media, Inc. All rights reserved. Used with permission from the publisher. Available from booksellers or direct from O'Reilly Media.

In this fifth part to a six-part series on installing and configuring Apache, you will learn, among other things, how to put Apache in jail. This article is excerpted from chapter two of Apache Security, written by Ivan Ristic (O'Reilly; ISBN: 0596007248). Copyright © 2006 O'Reilly Media, Inc. All rights reserved. Used with permission from the publisher. Available from booksellers or direct from O'Reilly Media.

In this fourth part of a six-part series on Apache installation and configuration, you will learn how to set server configuration limits, prevent information leaks, and more. This article is excerpted from chapter two of Apache Security, written by Ivan Ristic (O'Reilly; ISBN: 0596007248). Copyright © 2006 O'Reilly Media, Inc. All rights reserved. Used with permission from the publisher. Available from booksellers or direct from O'Reilly Media.

In this third part of a six-part series on Apache installation and configuration, you will learn how to set security-related permissions. This article is excerpted from chapter two of Apache Security, written by Ivan Ristic (O'Reilly; ISBN: 0596007248). Copyright © 2006 O'Reilly Media, Inc. All rights reserved. Used with permission from the publisher. Available from booksellers or direct from O'Reilly Media.