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Ed Aractingi (@earactingi)

Twitter Bio:: Technology enthusiast, HigherEd, security, storage, virtualization, cloud computing, Linux & gadgets CISSP MCSE PMP
Location:: Huntington, WV
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VMware Kills vRAM Licensing, Will Focus On vSphere Cloud Bundles

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VMware is discontinuing an unpopular server virtualization-licensing program and will focus on marketing vSphere and its other cloud computing products as a unified stack, CRN has learned.

In its upcoming release of vSphere 5.1, VMware is getting rid of vRAM entitlements, which debuted with vSphere 5 and determine how much memory

Facebook is collecting your data -- 500 terabytes a day

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How much of your data is Facebook collecting every day? Some new stats from the company reveal just how large its user base is, and what big data means to a company with 950 million users.

With more than 950 million users, Facebook is collecting a lot of data. Every time you click a notification, visit a page, upload a photo, or check out a friend’s link, you’re generating data for the company to track. Multiply that by 950 million people, who spend on average more than 6.5 hours on the site every