Ben Black said it much better than I could: “in summary, and not restricted to networking, if scale is central to your business, don’t outsource it.”

Bigdata was designed from the ground up as a distributed database architecture optimized for very high aggregate IO rates

This paper described Dynamo, a highly available and scalable data store, used for storing state of a number of core services of Amazon.com’s e-commerce platform

Building reliable distributed systems at a worldwide scale demands trade-offs between consistency and availability.

We analyze the design space of building a load-balanced system in the context of garage innovation

The Violin 1010 is the industry's first Memory Appliance, capable of supporting both Scalable Memory (DRAM) or High Performance Storage (NAND Flash) or a mixture of the two. The first release of the Violin 1010 supports 504GB of DRAM in a 2U chassis.

This paper introduces a new packet processor designed for stateful networking applications. We have extensively studied a number of applications in terms of their requirements for MIPS and REAPS.

Hadoop is a software platform that lets one easily write and run applications that process vast amounts of data. Hadoop implements MapReduce, using the Hadoop Distributed File System.