• SC13 News: Micron Develops Parallel Processing Architecture

  High Performance Computing announcements this week from vendors at the Supercomputing Conference in Denver highlight a new parallel processing architecture from Micron, and customer wins from DataDirect Networks and SGI.

• Chilldyne Debuts New Liquid Cooling Technology

  Supercomputing conferences often serve as a launchpad for liquid cooling technologies. This year's SC13 conference marks the public debut for Chilldyne, a startup out of Carlsbad, Calif. that addresses one of the most common concerns about liquid cooling – the potential for equipment to be…

• Online Tech Adds 34,000 Square Feet with Metro Detroit Data Center

  Web hosting provider Online Tech is renovating and building out a 34,000 square-foot data center in metro Detroit, and has made a $10M investment in infrastructure. The company will add 15 new jobs in the data center over the next five years.

• Challenges in Using Outside Air Economizers and How to Overcome Them

  Outside air economizers seem simple and attractive to cool the data center with "free" outside air. Unfortunately, if not designed properly bringing in outside air can actually put the data center operation at risk, Rob Style of SmithGroupJRR's Techologies Studio writes. He discusses…

• Why The Hybrid Cloud is Gaining in Popularity

  What's the driving force behind the hybrid cloud boom? What is causing the blurring of the cloud line? Bill Kleyman looks at why hybrid clouds are gaining in popularity.

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• A MongoDB data recovery tale

  A MongoDB data recovery tale : Excellent write up by MongoHQ's Paul Rubin of a data recovery story: The friend-​​of-​​a-​​friend had not been run­ning Mon­goDB with us, but hadbeen run­ning Mon­goDB at a bud­get VPS host. Their data­base on the bud­getVPS host had worked fine,…

• Big Data News: HP Expands Vertica Analytics Platform

  HP expands its big data analytics platform with Hadoop integration, SGI partners with Extreme Networks for Hadoop solutions, Zettaset secures Hadoop, and Concurrent delivers an all-access pass to business intelligence tools on Hadoop.