• Salesforce.com Introduces Salesforce1 Platform

  At Dreamforce 2013 this week in San Francisco Salesforce.com (CRM) introduced Salesforce1, a new social, mobile and cloud customer platform, built to transform sales, service and marketing apps.

• Photo Highlights from 7X24 Exchange Sessions & Events

  The 7X24 Exchange fall conference attendees discussed issues significant to running the data centers that power enterprises, academia, mega-scale Internet services and more. Check out our photo highlights from the sessions and evening events .

• Intel Launches Data Tools, New Phi HPC Accelerator

  At the Supercomputing Conference (SC13) in Denver this week Intel (INTC) launched new software tools to gain greater insight into data, and disclosed the final form factors and memory configurations for the second generation Phi processor, code named "Knights Landing".

• Evolution of Storage: VM-Aware Storage for Virtualization

  To make virtualization predictable for tier-one apps and end-user desktops and enable mixing and matching workloads, storage should be intelligent, writes Sachin Chheda of Tintri. Also, data reduction techniques to maximize the usage of expensive storage, such as flash, as complements to QoS, and…

• Savvis to Add Data Center in Toronto

  While CenturyLink was busy unveiling its acquisition of Tier 3, the company's Savvis cloud unit was announcing some expansion of its own. Savvis will expand in Canada with the launch of a new data center in Toronto.

• Facebook Ops: Each Staffer Manages 20,000 Servers

  Each Facebook data center operations staffer can manage at least 20,000 servers, according to Delfina Eberly, Director of Data Center Operations at Facebook.

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• Efficient techniques for fuzzy and partial matching in MongoDB

  Efficient techniques for fuzzy and partial matching in MongoDB : A pretty interesting post by John Page: This blogpost describes a number of techniques, in MongoDB, for efficientlyfinding documents that have a number of similar attributes to a suppliedquery whilst not being an exact match. This…

• Carter Validus Buys AT&T Data Center

  Carter Validus Mission Critical REIT announced that it has conducted its second sale-leaseback transaction of an AT&T data center, paying $110 million for an AT&T facility near Nashville.