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Benchmarking Cassandra Scalability on AWS - Over a million writes per second

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Writes stress a data store all the way to the disks, while read benchmarks may only exercise the in-memory cache. We use these for read intensive workloads to cache more data in memory. For example heres the client side response time plot from a single client generating about 20,000 requests/sec.

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Special: 72 Israeli Companies Exhibit at the 2010 Mobile World Congress

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4G/ LTE (Long Term Evolution) -the fourth generation of networks, enabling faster downloading in 4G phones (100 megabit per second compared to today’s 21 megabit/sec in 3G phones). Green: low-energy consuming phones and products for using the mobile as an energy monitoring device in the house. private networks, in nearly 100 countries.

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Startup Resources

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Varnish Cache (reverse proxy). IP Location Tools. British Library Business & IP Centre : Funded by the London Development Agency, the British Library supports inventors, small businesses and entrepreneurs from that first spark of inspiration to successfully launching and developing a business. mod_perlite (Perl). Xtranormal.