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Compact odor control system
BioAir Solutions has developed a compact dual-technology odor control system utilizing the company's EcoBase structured, synthetic biotricking filter media. EcoPure Mini eliminates more than 99.9 percent of hydrogen sulfide and volatile organic compounds without using hazardous chemicals, BioAir says. The patented synthetic media provides uniform air flow distribution, optimized mass transfer, and a controlled microenvironment enabling the growth and proliferation of specific odor-removing bacterial species. As a result, the EcoPure Mini has a very low operating cost, and is designed to take care of any collection system odor from day one, BioAir asserts. BioAir can provide EcoPure Mini units that handle airstreams from 50 to 1,000 cfm. The units come pre-installed on a stainless steel skid, making installation possible in less than a day.
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Compact Focus3D laser scanner
The new FARO Laser Scanner Focus3D is a high-performance 3D laser scanner for detailed measurement and documentation with intuitive touch screen control. It is four times lighter and five times smaller than its predecessor, says FARO Technologies Inc. Focus3D uses laser technology to produce detailed three-dimensional images of complex environments and geometries in only a few minutes. The resulting image is an assembly of millions of 3D measurement points in color which provides a digital reproduction of existing conditions. The new FARO Laser Scanner Focus3D is suitable for documentation of large environments, quality control of components, and reverse engineering. Thanks to its millimeter-accuracy and its 976,000 measurement points/second, Focus3D offers an efficient and precise method for measurement and three-dimensional documentation of building construction, excavation volumes, façade and structural deformations, crime scenes, accident sites, product geometry, factories, process plants, and more, according to FARO Technologies. Focus3D is entirely self-contained, meaning no additional devices, cables, or laptop is needed. Its integrated lithium-ion high-performance battery provides up to five hours of battery life and can be charged during operation. Furthermore, all scans are stored on an SD card enabling easy and secure data transfer to a computer. The FARO Focus3D is compatible with many common software applications.
FARO Technologies Inc. — www.faro.com
Railroad crossing product comes to Texas
After a live product demonstration in October, Hanson Pipe & Precast now offers its Premier Modular Railroad Crossing in Texas.
Installed in one day — half the amount of time of conventional crossings — the Premier Modular Railroad Crossing, made of precast concrete, is a low-cost, low-maintenance product used for light rail, short lines, industrial port, and heavy traffic crossings. Applicable for any rail size, Premier eliminates the need for ballasts, ties, and rail fasteners, cutting installation time and maintenance cost so that less traffic down-time is experienced, the company says.
Although this is the introduction of this product to the Texas market, Hanson Pipe & Precast has manufactured Premier in other areas outside the state for more than 40 years, and is now focused on providing Texas with a local, economical, and smart solution to rail transportation and freight needs.
Hanson Pipe & Precast — www.hansonpipeandprecast.com
Americast and KriStar Enterprises form strategic alliance
Americast Inc. and KriStar Enterprises Inc. have formed a strategic alliance to manufacture, sell, and service stormwater management products on both East and West coasts. The collaboration will allow the companies to provide greater flexibility and design options, yield production efficiency, and enhance customer service. Americast, based in the mid-Atlantic region, will manufacture, market, sell, and service KriStar's filter product line from its locations, including the FloGard Perk Filter Media Filtration Device, the FloGard Dual-Vortex Hydrodynamic Separator (DVS), and the FloGard+ Plus Catch Basin Insert Filter. Americast will also provide precasting services to KriStar for other markets in the eastern part of the United States. KriStar Enterprises, based in Santa Rosa, Calif., will be the exclusive distributor in California of Americast's Filterra Bioretention Systems products (Filterra, Filterra Roof Drain, Filterra Street Tree, and Bacterra). KriStar will manufacture, market, sell, and service the products, integrating KriStar's unique pre-filter chamber and by-pass features when requested. The two companies will provide additional regional manufacturing services for each other as well. Production on both coasts means that many major markets will now fall within the 500-mile radius designated for LEED credit MRc5 Regional Materials, defined as materials that are extracted, harvested, and manufactured within 500 miles of the project site.
Americast Inc. — www.americastusa.com
KriStar Enterprises Inc. — www.kristar.com
Firmware enhances 3D laser scanner capabilities
Leica Geosystems firmware 2.0 adds powerful new capabilities to the Leica ScanStation C10, a 3D laser scanner for as-built and topographic surveys. New firmware V2.0 adds key features that make it even more productive and versatile, according to the company. For example, the new "Setup" functionality lets users take advantage of known survey points and backsighting to reduce the number of target placements and scans needed and eliminate registration steps back in the office. Registration of multiple scans to each other is automatic in the field. The new firmware also allows users to check images taken by the C10's embedded camera in the field.
Leica Geosystems — www.leica-geosystems.us
Laser scanner software
Topcon Positioning Systems (TPS) has released ScanMaster 2.0 software, which is "faster and more powerful than previous versions," according to Fred Moser, TPS laser scanner sales manager. "ScanMaster 2.0, the latest version of Topcon's scanning software streamlines the data processing workflow and saves time, which is the bottom line for any business," Moser said.
ScanMaster 2.0 introduces many new and improved features, including automatic edge extraction, automatic region extraction, volume computation, automatic noise filtering, automatic scan registration, and automatic CAD extraction for cross sections, contours, and profiles directly from the cloud.
ScanMaster 2.0 comes as a free viewer module that enables instrument control, visualization, and data mark-up. The core functionality of the software package has been enhanced and features a high-performance point cloud engine offering faster indexing, reduced file size, and improved visual quality, clarity, and rendering performance, TPS says.
Topcon Positioning Systems Inc. — www.topconpositioning.com
Software for airport planners and engineers
Transoft Solutions has released a new helicopter addition to the aircraft library for its airside design software family: AeroTURN and AeroTURN Pro. The productivity-enhancing software is used by airport planners and engineers around the world to simulate aircraft movement at runways, aprons, and gates in airside development and expansion projects, according to Transoft Solutions. The helicopter update will supplement the existing aircraft specifications library and the aircraft expansion update.
The new update (free to all current AeroTURN and AeroTURN Pro clients on version 3.0) features new-to-the-software helicopters and their manufacturers. All the helicopters in the update meet manufacturers' dimensional specifications and include a skid kit, place only types, as well as wheeled gear models that can be used to simulate the movement of helicopters by ground crews.
Transoft Solutions Inc. — www.transoftsolutions.com
VERSA-LOK Retaining Wall Systems
Building outdoor bleachers out of VERSA-LOK Retaining Wall Systems can save thousands of dollars compared with traditional bleachers, says VERSA-LOK. VERSA-LOK bleachers are affordable, durable, quiet, and warm, the company adds.
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Sheriff Jim Davis tells media outlets a shelf fell on the boy Tuesday. He was pronounced dead at LewisGale Hospital.
Davis says the boy was a student at Pulaski Elementary School and had gone to day care before school started.
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Writing off the day to spend it in bed watching the rain.
Puppy likes doing this, too!
Downward-facing dog.
I've been missing out a bit on my exercise (jogging and free weights) in favour of making sure Mia has a daily walk and/or run. I have a hip injury which prevents me from doing much running on concrete, while Mia's only allowed to go on concrete until her vaccinations are up to date. So it's a catch-22. I did find her in this yoga position, though; long enough to snap her in it.
New shoes.
My three most-worn pairs of shoes—black studded ballet flats, blue ballet flats and black biker boots—are all broken (that hasn't stopped me wearing them, though!) so I thought it was high time I got some new ones. These biker boots are from Sportsgirl, and I'd been eyeing them off since February and finally bit the bullet and parted with $150 for them on Tuesday. Luckily, as it was positively torrential in Melbourne the next day!
Assembling for The Avengers.
One of the perks cons interesting facts of living with a comic book nerd is that you are forced to go along to the very first screening of the latest big screen adaptations if you express an interest in seeing them. This means forking out full price and lining up for an hour to secure the best seats in the house for The Avengers, which we saw last night. Housemate loved it; I didn't feel my life had been enriched in any way by seeing it. I did enjoy posing with the film's posters, though.
The stack.
I just want your extra time and your… Prince tickets.
That's right, topping off a year that will include Lady Gaga and Elton John is Prince. I can't wait to don "Diamonds & Pearls" and a "Raspberry Beret" whilst working up a "Black Sweat". All I need is a "Little Red Corvette" to get me to Rod Laver Arena on May 15th.
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BALLSTON SPA, N.Y. - Saratoga County Supervisors moved forward Tuesday night with plans to sell the county-run nursing home Maplewood Manor after months of heated debate.
Supervisors voted 16 to 5 in favor of passing the resolution to transfer county-owned nursing home to a local development corporation.
In a room filled with Saratoga County citizens, everyone who spoke was opposed to handing over the county's only nursing home into the hands of a local development corporation.
Among those speaker was Dorothy Tyler, whose mother currently stays at Maplewood Manor. "I worry about my mom about the people that are there and the future," she said.
During the meeting she asked the supervisors to reconsider before they placed their vote. Tyler says her top concern is the quality of the care changing. "We have to take care of our seniors. If we don't who will," Tyler asked.
After heated discussion, only a handful of supervisors opposed the LDC take over. "I think we should cut our expenses elsewhere," said the Patti Southworth, of Ballston.
"As I listen to some of my fellow supervisors, I am still waiting to hear some of their hard decisions," added John Lawler, the Supervisor from Waterford.
One town supervisor says that problem amounted to the county losing around $25,000 a day to keep Maplewood operating, a huge drain on the county's budget.
The development corporation will take over and has plans to borrow up to ten million dollars for Maplewood's operations. "Now we go forward with a permissive referendum. We'll ask county residents to sign a petition and have the residents vote on it," said Tyler.
Supervisors say the issue could go to court. Tyler has 45 days to gather signatures from area residents. She hopes to gather more than 10,000 signatures.
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ELIZABETHTOWN — Essex County has authorized a bond of up to $5.5 million to cover buyouts of flood-damaged properties while it waits for federal reimbursement.
The county was notified by the Federal Emergency Management Agency in March that its application to buy and demolish 26 homes substantially damaged by Tropical Storm Irene in 2011 was approved.
Now the acquisition of flood-damaged properties by the county is about to begin, and the county will issue bond anticipation notes against the $5.5 million bond to cover the costs.
FEMA will reimburse the county for 75 percent of the costs from the buyout program, Board of Supervisors Chair Randy Douglas (D-Jay) said.
"Seventy-five percent is FEMA-reimbursable, and the governor has assured us for the other 25 percent, our residents will be covered," Douglas said.
"When we first explained the process to people, we told them it was a lengthy, lengthy process. We're hoping we can have some homes torn down this fall."
The homes are in the towns of Jay, Keene, Essex, North Hudson and Westport. All are either on the Ausable River, Bouquet River or East Mill Brook.
In addition, 11 more homes were approved in May for a non-substantial-damage buyout program. Those properties had less than 50 percent damage from Irene or are not in a flood plain.
The FEMA award for the non-substantially damaged homes was $877,684, bringing the total from FEMA to $3.5 million. That represents 75 percent of the total project cost of $4.7 million. The buyout requires a 25 percent non-federal share.
"We do have round 2 application pending with probably another three properties that are going to meet the requirements," County Community Development Director Michael Mascarenas told the County Board of Supervisors recently. "So we're going to be right around $4 million (from FEMA) by the time it's all said and done. It's a substantial project."


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Area residents looking for a way to safely dispose of old medications no longer have to wait for semi-annual drop-off days at local police stations.
Project Medicine Drop, an initiative of the New Jersey Division of Consumer Affairs, expanded to West Essex this month with a new drop-off site established in North Caldwell.
Just inside the entrance to the North Caldwell Police Department at 136 Gould Ave., a white metal box similiar to a mailbox has been placed for the public to dispose of unwanted and expired prescription drugs. Drop-offs can be made question-free 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
The box is under 24-hour camera surveillance and is locked and bolted to the ground, according to Chief Mark Deuer.
"They wanted in Essex to get one suburban and one urban town," Deuer said, adding that he volunteer his agency to participate in the initiative. A second Project Medicine Drop is located across the county at the Belleville Police Station.
Every two weeks, participating police departments are required to empty the boxes and transport the drugs to designated locations where they will be destroyed.
The goal of the initiative is two-fold.
According to the Division of Consumer Affairs, "This opportunity prevents unused medications from falling into the hands of those who might abuse them, and it keeps them from being flushed into the water supply."
There are now 27 Project Medicine Drop locations in every county in New Jersey (see attached PDF). An additional seven sites are scheduled to be added in early 2013.
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Illegal racing in Tyler landed two people in the hospital and another in jail after a truck flipped over and pinned a man underneath.
The accident happened around 1:15a.m. on Sunday on the 1500 block of West Grande in Tyler.
Tyler Police say two vehicles were racing westbound on Grande when they lost control and one driver ended up getting pinned underneath his truck.
"On the road right there on the corner right there that's where he starting hitting the curb. He was coming real fast over here," says witness Elvis Awa, "I was sleeping and all I could hear was 'help, help, help' and we started running out and then I called 911."
Police say a Volkswagen Jetta and a Dodge truck were racing westbound on Grande.
Luiz Barajas,23, was driving the Jetta and Daniel Dodd,28, was in the Dodge truck.
Police say when the vehicles reached the curve, neither driver was able to make the turn and both vehicles crashed in the curb in the eastbound lane.
"The first vehicle was a Volkswagen Jetta and it ended up staying up right and up in the grass. The second vehicle was a Dodge truck; it ended up flipping and the driver was ejected from the vehicle and the vehicle ended up rolling over and landing onto his legs," says Sgt. Paul Robeson, Tyler Police Department.
"It was gruesome. The car was damaged; the back wheel of the truck was laying somewhere in the middle. A couple of golf balls and gold clubs were scattered all over the road. It was not good," says Awa.
Tyler PD says Dodd was not wearing his seatbelt.
Barajas was arrested and charged with DWI, accident involving serious bodily injury and racing.
Charges for Dodd are currently pending, once police further their investigation and receive lab results.
Both Dodd and a passenger in the Jetta were taken to ETMC hospital in Tyler.
Dodd is good condition and is still at ETMC Hospital.
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Recently the New York Yankees' Twitter account claimed that everyone wants to be a Yankee.
Please, everyone wants to a be a Yankee RT @dodgers: We would never pretend to be the @yankees. That would be silly. #MTVHack— New York Yankees (@Yankees) February 19, 2013
Like it was the most obvious thing ever. Like players are lining up to become part of the Yankee legacy and aren't happy until they play in the Bronx. Except people made fun of it. What a silly thing to say. So arrogant, so unrealistic, so ridiculous. Maybe that was a thing back when the Yankees were winning the World Series every year, but in this day and age, it's just not true.
Felix Hernandez, one of the best pitchers in baseball, was recruited out of Venezuela as a 16 year old kid. At that time his family had gained a working relationship with the Mariners organization as they tried to sign him. The team offered a signing bonus of $710,000, but the Yankees were in the bidding too and they offered something even higher than that. Why would Hernandez leave money on the table? One of the reasons was that he wanted to be a Mariner because his idol, Freddy Garcia, was on the team. Felix wasn't interested in the legacy of the Yankees, the star attention, or the chance at a championship every year; he had his own personal idea of a legacy. He wanted to be a Mariner just like his hero. He recently signed the most lucrative contract for a pitcher in the history of the game. He could have gotten that on the open market, but he still wanted to be a Mariner, even when they have yet to make the playoffs with him on the team.
When Cliff Lee was looking to sign a long term contract in 2010, the Yankees and the Rangers were in a money battle. Brian Cashman offered a seven year $148M contract, yet Cliff Lee has never been a Yankee. Somehow in the midst of this battle the Phillies snuck in and offered a lesser contract to him of five years and $120M with a sixth option year. Granted, the contract was a higher AAV than the Yankees offered, but he still gave up almost $30M to be with the team that he liked playing for. He later claimed that he never wanted to leave the Phillies in the first place, so this was where he wanted to be all along. Not among the Yankees, making as much money as possible, but off where he knew he would be the happiest. Now, instead of being locked up until his 38 year old season, he'll find himself a free agent at either 36 or 37, an age that says he's not done yet, but definitely not the pitcher he used to be. Lee will never make up for the money he lost to be where he wanted to be.
Now suddenly, the Yankees have become archaic and too old school for some of the younger players. David Price isn't comfortable with all the Yankee rules and expectations:
"I wouldn't stay there very long then," he responded. "I wouldn't sign a long-term deal there. Those rules, that's old-school baseball. I was born in '85. That's not for me. That's not something I want to be a part of.
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He would gladly play for any other team that allowed him to keep a beard, rather than make top dollar and having to shave it off. A comfort signing with the Yankees is that you can be sure they're going to give you everything you want. They don't skimp people, whether it's because they have the resources to give you whatever you want or they're just very bad negotiators, you can be sure that you're going to get that extra year you want: The Yankees signed Ichiro Suzuki to a two year contract into his 40 year old season, just because he wanted it. Probably because of 3,000 hits too, but still. The Yankees will give you a no trade clause, like Mark Teixeira and Alex Rodriguez have. You know the Yankees aren't having any mid-season fire sales like the Miami Marlins. The Yankees will give you your own opt out clause so that you can play really well and then leave because you feel like New York isn't really your thing. CC Sabathia benefited from such a goodwill clause and got a really nice hunk of change.
There is literally no reason not to be a Yankee if you want to make the most money and get all the coolest things. Yet David Price is okay never being a Yankee because he doesn't want to shave his beard. Maybe it's more about having the freedom to do what you want and therefore relieving pressure, but if someone told me I needed to shave regularly if I wanted $100M+ I would absolutely do it, and I am notorious for being a lazy shaver (I'm scratching my face as I type this). David Price would want to get out of New York so he could get away from the chance at being a New York Yankee. That's the reality we live in today.
Even when it's not huge contracts being offered, players used to come to New York to win. Players held down on a non-contending team for a long time wanted a chance to contend in the playoffs, old veterans knew that it was their last shot at a title. But now that's kind of changed too as Scott Hairston passed on the Yankees so he could get a second year on his contract playing for the Chicago Cubs. Nate Schierholtz decided a $2M one year deal with the Cubs was fine as long as he got to start. No one is offering to sit on the bench so that they can possibly win a championship anymore.
At least the Yankees can still attract the old veterans that no one particularly wants. The Yankees have signed the likes of Travis Hafner, a man that has suffered from enough injuries that he hasn't played more than 100 games in a season, other than one year, since 2007. He wants a championship. Matt Diaz has been declining for years and Juan Rivera has never been very good. These are the ragtag players the Yankees are still able to attract.
Maybe it was okay to claim the Yankees as the best team ever and say silly things like everyone wants to be a Yankee back when the organization was on top of the world. Now, with the newly imposed budget, the declining talent of their biggest brand names, and a lack of clear dominance, players are starting to see that there is baseball life outside of New York. And that's fine. There always was one, but Yankee fans can't continue to pretend that we're the center of the baseball solar system, that all teams revolve around New York. It gives us a bad name. It makes the organization look bad, because they're a business, not an exclusive club, not the Hall of Fame. The best players can come from anywhere and it's okay if they want to stay there. Every team should have their own Derek Jeter. It's time that we buy into a new marketing vision besides "27 Ringz" and the legacy of Lou Gehrig and the Babe. Things are different now.


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Virgin Records is re-releasing Meds, the newest album by London-based alternative rock trio PLACEBO on January 23, 2007, the label announced. The album was originally released in the U.S. earlier in 2006 through the Astralwerks label.
The Virgin Records edition of Meds, described by the band as a back-to-basics project with the elemental feeling of a first album, will add three songs not on the Astralwerks release: "Lazarus," "UNEEDMEMORETHANINEEDU," and a cover of Kate Bush's "Running Up That Hill." R.E.M.'s Michael Stipe duets on the track "Broken Promise" and Alison Mosshart of The Kills is a guest on the title track.
Along with the growing alternative radio coverage of title single, the band has racked up over 4 million streams of the songs posted in the PLACEBO MySpace.com page. "Running Up That Hill," the trio's cover of the Kate Bush mid-'80s classic, has been recently featured on two U.S. television series, Bones and The O.C. - Virgin


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Before a fire truck at the Starr Fire Department leaves the station, firefighters say they make sure they have what they need. However, Assistant Chief Gregg Campbell said he's trying to put out a fire of his own. He said it's one that has the community heated.
"Very upset, it should've never came to this," Campbell said.
He said the controversy started over a Christmas celebration that involved a parade, Santa Claus and a red truck.
"We bought this truck. The title is still in the owner we bought the truck from," Campbell said.
The Starr department is a volunteer fire department.
"Sometimes we're in good shape, sometimes we're real short-handed," he said.
Campbell said they held fundraisers and bought the truck with that money back in November.
"Anderson County did not have any insurance on this truck," he said.
Campbell said the truck will eventually be used as a brush truck to help fight grass fires.
According to a suspension notice, the Anderson County Fire Chief suspended the fire chief for allowing Santa Claus to ride on the back of a stationed owned vehicle during the parade.
"It does not have Starr Fire Department on it. It does not have Anderson County Fire Department written on it anywhere," Campbell said.
According to the Anderson County Fire Rules and Regulations, it's a violation to let anyone ride on the back of a county-owned vehicle. So, the county chief suspended the chief, a captain and a firefighter for 90 days.
"This does not warrant 90 days," Campbell said.
On Friday, many who live in the community along with other firefighters from the Starr Department as well as other firefighters gathered at the station to show support and talk about their concerns over the suspensions.
Tessa Hilley said those volunteer firefighters who were suspended should be re-instated.
"I think they have been wrongfully done," Hilley said.
Stephen Sorensen, an Anderson County Fire Commissioner who represents the Starr district, released this statement:
"I care about the firefighters and the Starr community. Right now, I'm looking into the situation to figure out what happened," Sorensen said.
He said he doesn't want those who live in the Starr community to panic because there are firefighters from the department who will be able to respond to emergency situations, as well as other firefighters from surrounding departments.
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Your first contact with an employer is usually via an electronic communication, either through an online application or a networking email. These initial contacts are extremely important because they immediately give an employer a sense of your professionalism, seriousness of purpose, and that all-important work quality -- attention to detail. Employers are impressed when they get a well written resume and cover letter. Once this positive impression is established, you have a good chance of receiving an invitation to interview, or at least to build on it with subsequent communications. If you do a poor job on the resume or cover letter (even with just one typo!), you have little or no chance of getting beyond the Trash folder.
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Disk storage is a lot like closet space -- you can never have enough. Nowhere is this truer than in the world of big data. The very name -- "big data" -- implies more data than a typical storage platform can handle. So where exactly does this leave the ever-vigilant CIO? With a multitude of decisions to make and very little information to go by.
However, wading through the storage options for big data does not have to be an impossible journey. It all comes down to combining some basic understanding of the challenge with a little common sense and a sprinkle of budgetary constraint.
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What makes big data a big deal
First of all, it is important to understand how big data differs from other forms of data and how the associated technologies (mostly analytics applications) work with it. In itself, big data is a generic term that simply means that there is too much data to deal with using standard storage technologies. However, there is much more to it than that -- big data can consist of terabytes (or even petabytes) of information that can be a combination of structured data (databases, logs, SQL and so) and unstructured (social media posts, sensors, multimedia) data elements. What's more, most of that data can lack indexes or other organizational structures, and may consist of many different file types.
That circumstance greatly complicates dealing with big data. The lack of consistency eliminates standard processing and storage techniques from the mix, while the operational overhead and sheer volume of data make it difficult to efficiently process using the standard server and SAN approach. In other words, big data requires something different: its own platform, and that is where Hadoop comes into the picture.
Hadoop is an open source project that offers a way to build a platform that consists of commodity hardware (servers and internal server storage) formed into a cluster that can process big data requests in parallel. On the storage side, the key component of the project is the Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS), which has the capability to store very large files across multiple members in a cluster. HDFS works by creating multiple replicas of data blocks and distributing them across compute nodes throughout a cluster, which facilitates reliable, extremely rapid computations.
All things considered so far, it would seem that the easiest way to build an adequate storage platform for big data would be to purchase a set of commodity servers and equip each with a few terabyte-level drives and then let Hadoop do the rest. For a few smaller enterprises, it may be just as simple as that. However, once processing performance, algorithm complexity and data mining enter the picture, a commodity approach may not be sufficient to guarantee success.