• Why traffic waves and congestion happen

  You're on the freeway, traffic is moving along, and for no apparent reason everyone slows down. And eventually, for no …

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• LANL Selects DataDirect Networks to Support Petascale Collaboration

  Los Alamos National Laboratory selected DataDirect Networks to deliver high-performance storage to support its institutional computing program.

• Dimension Data Adds Four New Cloud Locations Including Sao Paulo

  Dimension Data is expanding around the globe, by adding four new data centers in the US, UK, Australia and South America in order to address growing demand of its Managed Cloud Platform.

• Facing BYOD Head On

  We love our toys, but mixing business with pleasure presents Excedrin-sized headaches for data center managers responsible for keeping company data secure and knowing who has what apps, why and where, writes Tom Roberts of AFCOM. So what's the solution to managing the growing BYOD phenomenon?

• Ubiquity Will Convert Sears Auto Centers into Data Centers

  Ubiquity Critical Environments plans to build a national chain of IT facilities by converting dozens of Sears Auto Center stores into data centers. It is partnering with Schneider Electric to build and operate mission-critical facilities in at least 23 second-tier markets around the country.

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• Apache Hadoop Compatibility Guide

  I've learned that there's an Apache Hadoop compatibility guide that covers API, wire, Java binary compatibility, any many other such aspects. ✚ Karthik Kambatla posted on Cloudera's blog Writing Hadoop programs that work across releases that looks at the Hadoop API annotations and…