• How to Develop ROI for DCIM Projects

  Creating a DCIM budget? Check out this white paper with simple lessons that help you build a simple ROI model and get approval for your DCIM deployment.

• One year in information security

  Going to the dark side.  Those were my first thoughts about taking an information security role one year ago.  One year later, the situation seems much brighter than I expected. This role has taught me more about how our business operates, how we set priorities, and how to respond to a setback. …

• Red Hat Expands OpenShift Online, Lowers Pricing

  At the AWS re:Invent conference in Las Vegas this week Red Hat announced an expansion of its OpenShift Online public Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) offering and services for its partner ecosystem.

• The Mismatch Between Virtualization and Storage

  Increased adoption of virtualization in today's data centers is uncovering the significant mismatch between the capabilities of traditional storage platforms and the specialized demands of virtualization, writes Sachin Chheda. This column discusses the different storage and virtualization…

• Servergy Raises $20 Million Funding, Adds Partner

  Maker of hyper-efficient servers, Servergy, Inc. has raised $20 million in funding for the Q4 commercial launch of its new class of Cleantech Servers.

• Dunking for Density: New Projects Pursue 3M's Take on Immersion Cooling

  We're continuing to see new examples of immersion cooling at meaningful scale. Last year we offered an early look at an immersion cooling technique developed by 3M known as open bath immersion. Here's an update on some projects using this technology.

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• Concurrent updates, distributed systems and clocks, vector clocks, last-write-win, and CRDT

  Concurrent updates, distributed systems and clocks, vector clocks, last-write-win, and CRDT : Great post by John Daily from Basho about concurrent updates in the world of distributed systems and the implications of using clocks, vector clocks, last-write-wins, distributed data types (Commutative…

• Heroku Postgres Rollback

  Heroku Postgres Rollback : New features available on Heroku's hosted PostgreSQL Heroku Postgres rollback allows you to "roll back" the state of yourdatabase to a previous point in time, just as heroku releases:rollbackallows you to roll back to an older deployment of your…

• Avere Systems Launches Cloud NAS Storage

  Looking to change the economics and functionality of data storage for the cloud era, Avere Systems announced its new Cloud NAS solution this week at the Amazon Web Services re:Invent event in Las Vegas.