• Research: Liquid Cooling Can Reduce Data Center Energy Use

  Liquid-cooled servers at a data center at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory used less energy in certain circumstances than air-cooled servers on site, a researcher said Tuesday at the sixth annual Data Center Efficiency Summit hosted by the Silicon Valley Leadership Group (SVLG).

• Search and Browse Amazon CloudWatch Metrics in the Console

  Amazon CloudWatch monitors your AWS cloud resources and the applications that you run on AWS. The basic unit of monitoring is a metric. Amazon EC2, Amazon RDS, and other AWS services collect metrics and forward them to CloudWatch, where they...

• Scaling Holiday Shopping With More Sales Per Second

  Amidst a global boom in online shopping, the trend highlights the differences in how brick-and-mortar retailers are trying to scale sales, compared to how online vendors prepare for the holiday rush, writes Ajay Nilaver of Fusion-io.

• More Servers! Verizon Adds Capacity for HealthCare.gov

  Can more hardware solve the problems plaguing HealthCare.gov? The troubled web site was taken offline Tuesday night after the Obama administration asked service provider Verizon Terremark to beef up the infrastructure supporting the site.

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• Disabling old IP addresses

  We've made some significant upgrades to the network infrastructure powering GitHub, and it's time to turn off some of the old gear. We've updated DNS records to point at our new IP space, but continue to see a steady trickle of requests to IP addresses long since removed from DNS. On…

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