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| title: 'The Apache News Round-up: week ending 20 February 2015' |
| date: '2015-02-20T00:00:00+00:00' |
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| <p>This week we welcomed Cloudera, who renewed its sponsorship of the ASF and upgraded to the Platinum level <a href="http://s.apache.org/5KH">http://s.apache.org/5KH</a> . Here's what happened elsewhere at the Foundation:</p>
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| <p>ASF Infrastructure –our distributed team on four continents keeps the ASF's infrastructure running 24x7x365.<br /> - The Infra team's global uptime across all Apache services is a stellar 99.73% <a href="http://status.apache.org/">http://status.apache.org/</a></p>
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| <p>Apache Accumulo™ –sorted, distributed key/value store is a robust, scalable, high performance data storage system that features cell-based access control and customizable server-side processing.<br /> - Apache Accumulo 1.6.2 released <a href="http://accumulo.apache.org/downloads/">http://accumulo.apache.org/downloads/</a></p>
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| <p>Apache Gora™ –an easy-to-use in-memory data model and persistence for big data framework with data store specific mappings and built-in Apache Hadoop support<br /> - Apache Gora 0.6 released <a href="http://gora.apache.org/downloads.html">http://gora.apache.org/downloads.html</a></p>
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| <p>Apache Libcloud™ –a Python library that abstracts away the differences among multiple cloud provider APIs.<br /> - Apache Libcloud 0.17.0 released <a href="http://libcloud.apache.org/downloads.html">http://libcloud.apache.org/downloads.html</a></p>
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| <p><b><u>Did You Know?</u></b></p>
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| <p> - Did you know that Twitter uses Apache Kafka, Storm, Hadoop, and Cassandra to handle 5 billion sessions a day in real time?</p>
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| <p> - Did you know that Biology Virtual Collaborative Labs (BioVLAB) use Apache Airavata to set up computational resources and build bioinformatics tools?</p>
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| <p> - Did you know that the Oxford English Dictionary is powered by Apache Tapestry?</p>
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| <p><b><u>Apache Community Notices:</u></b></p>
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| <p> - We're participating in the annual <a href="https://www.blackducksoftware.com/future-of-open-source">Future of Open Source Survey</a>, and appreciate your answering a few short questions <a href="http://s.apache.org/0UW">http://s.apache.org/0UW</a></p>
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| <p> - Catch Apache TomEE in action on 21 February at the ceJug/JVM Users Group in Ceará, Brazil <a href="https://twitter.com/cejug">https://twitter.com/cejug</a></p>
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| <p> - The first ever Apache Phoenix MeetUp will take place 24 February at Salesforce in San Francisco <a href="http://www.meetup.com/San-Francisco-Apache-Phoenix-Meetup/events/220009583/">http://www.meetup.com/San-Francisco-Apache-Phoenix-Meetup/events/220009583/</a></p>
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| <p> - The next Apache Mesos User Group MeetUp will take place 25 March in London <a href="http://www.meetup.com/London-Mesos-User-Group/events/220602962/">http://www.meetup.com/London-Mesos-User-Group/events/220602962/</a></p>
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| <p> - The Women of ASF Luncheon will be held on 14 April at ApacheCon <a href="http://events.linuxfoundation.org/events/apachecon-north-america/attend/women-asf-luncheon">http://events.linuxfoundation.org/events/apachecon-north-america/attend/women-asf-luncheon</a></p>
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| <p> - Apache TrafficServer Spring Summit will take place 16-17 April in Austin <a href="https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/TS/Spring+2015+Summit">https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/TS/Spring+2015+Summit</a></p>
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| <p> - The Apache Marmotta community are being proactive and beginning to collect ideas for Google Summer of Code 2015 <a href="http://markmail.org/message/4nowycutyx2m2rj3">http://markmail.org/message/4nowycutyx2m2rj3</a></p>
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| <div>For real-time updates, <a href="http://www.apache.org/foundation/mailinglists.html#foundation-announce">sign up for Apache-related news</a> by sending mail to announce-subscribe@apache.org and follow <a href="https://twitter.com/TheASF">@TheASF on Twitter</a>. For a broader spectrum from the Apache community, <a href="https://twitter.com/PlanetApache">https://twitter.com/PlanetApache</a> provides an aggregate of both Project activities and the personal blogs of select <a href="http://people.apache.org/">ASF Committers</a>.</div>
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