• Cyan Adds Blue Orbit Ecosystem Partners

  Cyan expands its Blue Orbit ecosystem of SDN and NFV partners, and helps Colt deliver on its next-generation modular multi-service platform.

• Why NoSQL Can Be Safer than an RDBMS

  Why NoSQL Can Be Safer than an RDBMS : Robin Schumacher 1 : That said, I disagree with many of the article's statements, the mostimportant being that companies should not consider NoSQL databases as afirst choice for critical data. In this article, I'll show first how a NoSQLdatabase like…

• How the IT Giants Stay at the Cutting Edge

  The continuous purchase of new equipment can be fueled by the effective resale of the old, writes Kyle Bittner of Ex-IT Technologies. IT departments, large and small, know the key to a seamless upgrade path is the effective resale of aging equipment and components to fuel new purchases.

• Cloud Channel Summit to Engage Cloud Vendors, Hosting Companies

  The Cloud Channel Summit, which will convene in Mountain View on November 4, will focus on building successful alliances in the cloud.

• With Havana Release, OpenStack Adds Enterprise Features

  The OpenStack Havana release had more than 910 contributors and delivers nearly 400 new features. Two major new features are Metering & Monitoring (Ceilometer) and Orchestration (Heat). A Red Hat Survey recently finds promising signs for Openstack enterprise adoption.

• Next-Generation Data Centers Require Next-Generation Security

  As communications shift to the cloud, it's creating new types of requirements that older security models just cannot meet. Next-generation security can help. Bill Kleyman looks at some of these new types of security products.

• Analyzing GitHub Trends

  It seems like language popularity is constantly fluctuating in the tech world. I tried to prove this by visualizing GitHub pushes and looking for trends. The GitHub Archive is a project that records forks, watches, pushes, pulls, and various other events on public GitHub repositories and archives…

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• Puppet Labs Helps Visualize IT Infrastructure Changes In Puppet Enterprise 3.1

  Puppet Enterprise 3.1 includes increased support and enhanced features. The big addition to the release is a reporting tool that allows sysadmins to visualize infrastructure changes, providing greater insight.

• VMware Adds vCloud Data Centers, Acquires Desktone

  At VMworld 2013 in Barcelona this week VMware expanded its Hybrid vCloud Service by adding vCloud data centers in the U.S. and the UK, vaulted into a leader position in the Desktop as a Service market by acquiring Dessktone, and expanded capabilities for the software-defined data center.