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Pentaho, a provider of an open-source business intelligence (BI) platform, has announced its latest release. Like the rest of the information management world, the company is squarely focused on supporting -- yes, you guessed it -- big data.

While it sounds a bit like a freakish superhero, Amazon's AWS ElastiCache could bring big benefits to those running data across its systems.

The folks at Spoonlabs released version 4.5 of their Vivvo (news, site) open source content management system. In addition to over 450 resolved issues, there is also a number of new features and other improvements. And, most importantly to some, a new licensing model.

20,000,000+ page views per day. 1,000,000+ active user accounts. As exciting as those numbers are for the executive team, they are absolutely terrifying for the IT department.

While the CEO is slapping high-fives with the marketing department and watching the bottom line grow, the tech staff are working all night to keep the servers from melting down. Now there’s one more tool in the scalability kit for Microsoft shops.

Everybody was keyed-up, waiting for Blaine Cook of Twitter to talk, and he finally did. It wasn’t quite what we expected (well, what were we expecting?), but it was nonetheless educational and really sort of surprising.

Cook took advantage of a long list of Twitter’s mistakes and weaknesses to introduce us to Starling, his response to platforms based on Erlang and other technologies — which he asserts would have been a general nightmare.