I found this interesting. Facebook – a company that designs their own servers(in custom racks no less), writes their own software, does fancy stuff in PHP to make it scale, is a big user of Hadoop, massive horizontal scaling of sharded MySQL systems, and has developed an exabyte scale query engine - is going to be deploying HP Vertica as part of their big data infrastructure.
Apparently announced at HP Discover
“Data is incredibly important: it provides the opportunity to create new product enhancements, business insights, and a significant competitive advantage by leveraging the assets companies already have. At Facebook, we move incredibly fast. It’s important for us to be able to handle massive amounts of data in a respectful way without compromising speed, which is why HP Vertica is such a perfect fit.â€
Not much else to report on, just thought it was interesting given all the stuff Facebook tries to do on it’s own.