Parallel Iron [NPE] filed eight separate suits against Adobe, CitiGroup, Facebook, LinkedIn, Morgan Stanley, Motorola Mobility, Orbitz, and UBS Financial Services, alleging that the defendants’ products that implement the Hadoop Distributed File System infringe three patents related to storing data across multiple servers.  (Hadoop is an open source distributed cache file system.)  Parallel Iron has filed nine prior suits since January 2011 against over 15 defendants, including Adknowledge, Amazon, AOL, BlueArc, EMC, Groupon, Hitachi, Hulu, LSI, IBM, NetApp, Oracle, Samsung, and Twitter.  The patents-in-suit were previously owned by Ring Technology before being assigned to Parallel Iron in March 2010.  7/12, District of Delaware, no judge yet assigned, 1:2012cv00874; 1:2012cv00875; 1:2012cv00876; 1:2012cv00877; 1:2012cv00878; 1:2012cv00879; 1:2012cv00880; 1:2012cv00881.