• NextFort Set to Open Data Center near Phoenix

  Chandler, AZ is getting more data center space. NextFort will unveil 130,000-square-feet of ultra-secure, ultra high-density data center space on December 11.

• Friday Funny: Gobble, Gobble in the Hot Aisle

  Well folks, we've made it to Friday again. Thank goodness! For our U.S. readers, we're headed toward the Thanksgiving holiday next week. So, Diane Alber, our data center cartoonist, has a special cartoon this week. Submit your captions!

• Windows Azure, Xbox Live Experience Problems as Xbox One Launches

  Xbox One launch day turned out to be a rough ride for the Windows Azure cloud computing service, which helps power Xbox Live. The platform was plagued by problems for much of Thursday, including storage and network issues.

• Essential migration steps for a Hadoop cluster to Hortonworks Data Platform 2.0

  Essential migration steps for a Hadoop cluster to Hortonworks Data Platform 2.0 : Ulf Sandberg: A Hadoop distribution has multiple Apache components, and possibly somevendor-specific components. This graphic shows best practice for the orderin which to migrate the various components. The…