• Enterprise Integration Using REST

  My colleague Brandon Byars has been involved in several projects in large enterprises where they are trying to upgrade and replace their legacy systems. A strategy that's been useful in these situations is using REST-style web-services as an integration mechanism. Brandon is writing an article to…

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• Flash Goes to Wall Street: Nimble Storage Files For IPO

  Taking a company public seems to be popular once again, as the enterprise flash-optimized hybrid storage company Nimble Storage has filed registration with the SEC relating to the proposed initial public offering of its common stock.

• 10 Data Projects Not to Leave Off the Schedule in 2014

  With budgets tightening – often to pay for storage costs – data center managers are struggling to find the highest impact projects that will see an immediate ROI. While there's no one project that will reclaim all of the unstructured data rotting away in the data center, there are 10 crucial…

• Giant Robots Podcast Episode 71: The Power of the Truth

  Giant Robots Podcast Episode 71: The Power of the Truth : Josh Clayton and Ben Orenstein interview each other about their managing director positions. Episode Notes and Links Subscribe via iTunes Subscribe via RSS Direct Download

• Facebook Not Working, So Twitter Fills With Facebook Humor

  When a service with 1.15 billion users is not working, what are users to do? The answer is to shift to Twitter and other social media sites and talk about the fact that Facebook is down. Many users have responded with humor rather than angst or outrage.

• The HealthCare.gov Experience: Why Critical Systems Fail

  The amazing thing isn't that systems like the healthcare.gov government web site can fail in spectacular fashion, says Dr. Richard Cook. It's that it doesn't happen more often. Cook, an expert on failures in complex systems, says it's human nature to push these systems to the…

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• Introducing Secure Solutions for Data Center Connect

  With increasing security threats, enterprises face a range of challenges in providing a comprehensive IT security program for cloud, virtualization and more.

• AWS Week in Review - October 14, 2013

  Let's take a quick look at what happened in AWS-land last week: Monday, October 14 We introduced Federated Users and Temporary Security Credentials for AWS CloudFormation. Tuesday, October 15 We added Content Uploading Support to Amazon CloudFront. Wednesday, October 16...

• Data Center Jobs: ViaWest

  At the Data Center Jobs Board, we have a new job listing from ViaWest, which is seeking a Data Center Director in Richardson, Texas.