• Partners Building on OpenStack Release Innovations

  Enabled by the recent eighth edition of OpenStack (Havana) and heading into OpenStack Summit Hong Kong this week, vendors Brocade, Midokura, and Mellanox have OpenStack related announcements.

• Google Data Center Investment in Finland Tops $1 Billion USD

  Google purchased a 60-year-old paper mill in Finland, which it has converted into one of its most modern, efficient data centers worldwide, and its now investing an additional EUR450 million (about 608 million in USD) to continue expansion of the facility.

• Dell Powers Reel FX Animated Film "Free Birds"

  Boring servers whirring away in a data center never seem exciting until they are used to power an animated film and show off that technology in full glorious color and clarity. Reel FX has done just that, and used Dell servers to develop, produce and animate its first full-length feature film,…

• Enabling the Move to Data Center Switching Fabric

  For the data center to evolve, the network must be modernized. This white paper helps you to learn how to create application fluency within the modern data center.

• StumbleUpon's New Home Is RagingWire's Sacramento Data Center

  StumbleUpon is moving its primary data center from Silicon Valley to Sacramento, where it will be hosted by RagingWire. The social sharing service, which has 30 million users, has fine-tuned the art of the recommendation.

• RagingWire Charts its Next Phase of Growth

  Rather than being absorbed by the global telecom titan NTT Communications, RagingWire will retain its brand and management team and operate as an autonomous unit within NTT. We talk with the RagingWire team about what the deal means for the growing colo provider.

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• Microsoft Begins Bulk Purchases of Wind Energy

  Microsoft has begun purchasing renewable energy to support its data center infrastructure, signing a 20-year power purchase agreement for wind energy in Texas that will be funding in part by proceed from Microsoft's carbon fee.

• AWS Week in Review - October 28, 2013

  Let's take a quick look at what happened in AWS-land last week: Monday, October 28 I published a new AWS Report video featuring Chris Langway of Optaros. The AWS Application Management Blog discussed CloudFormation and the New AWS CLI. The...

• Box Commits to Adopting Renewable Energy for its Data Centers

  Cloud file-sharing giant Box has inked an agreement with the environmental group Greenpeace to eventually run its infrastructure entirely with renewable energy.

• Managing Server Performance? Stop Using Server Management Tools

  Server management requires a broader view that places the server being managed in the context of the applications and business services that are being provided, writes Vic Nyman of BlueStripe Software.

• Aerospike is the only "Visionary" in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Operational Database Management Systems [sponsor]

  Words from this week's sponsor: Gartner has published the 2013 Magic Quadrant for Operational Database Management Systems and recognized Aerospike in the Visionaries Quadrant. The report examines the key capabilities of information management for transaction processing. Access the full report…

• The demise of eventual consistency?

  The demise of eventual consistency? : A well written article by FoundationDB's founder Dave Rosenthal about eventual consistency: The concept of eventual consistency comes up frequently in the context ofdistributed databases. Leading NoSQL databases like Riak, Couchbase, andDynamoDB provide…

• Data Center Jobs: Jones Lang LaSalle

  At the Data Center Jobs Board, we have a new job listing from Jones Lang LaSalle, which is seeking a Critical Facilities Engineer in Roanoke, Texas.