• Amazon Kinesis - Public Beta Now Open

  We announced a limited preview of Amazon Kinesis last month at AWS re:Invent. If you aren't familiar with Kinesis, take a quick look at my recent post, Amazon Kinesis - Real-Time Processing of Streaming Big Data, to learn more. I...

• Intel Acquires Mindspeed for Wireless Infrastructure

  Cisco and Ontario plan a $4 billion investment over 10 years for job growth, Intel acquires wireless assets from Mindspeed Technologies, and Mellanox and Dell collaborate to integrate network cards into PowerEdge servers.

• Currency Miners Cause Spot Shortages of Dedicated Servers

  A number of dedicated hosting providers are running short of servers to lease, and attributing the shortages to heavy buying by customers mining for digital currencies. Surge buying by Primecoin miners has tested the capacity of at least one cloud provider, but others see opportunity.

• DCIM News: Nlyte Releases SaaS Version of DCIM Platform

  Nlyte releases a SaaS version of its DCIM; ABB enters partnership with DataVision; and iTRACS builds a DCIM vendor ecosystem.

• The Automated Data Center: Two Layers of Technology Innovation

  As cloud and data center continue to evolve, automation and robotics will play a larger role. In the first of as three-part series, Bill Kleyman looks at the opportunities and challenges in data center automation, and the role that robotics may play.

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• Avago Plunges into Storage with $6.6 Billion LSI Acquisition

  Avago Technologies Limited (AVGO) and LSI announced that the two companies have entered into a definitive agreement under which Avago will acquire LSI for $11.15 per share in an all-cash transaction valued at $6.6 billion.

• Preparing for DCIM in 2014: Best Practices for Getting It Right

  In 2014, many organizations will implement DCIM for the first time or expand or replace their existing implementation. Several critical factors will help organizations succeed. Lara Greden of CA Technologies outlines recommended best practices on deploying DCIM.

• With the release of Redis 2.8, Pivotal starts offering support for Redis

  With the release of Redis 2.8, Pivotal starts offering support for Redis : Redis 2.8 was finally released on Nov. 22nd . And with this release, Pivotal starts offering support: As of today, Pivotal will be offering 2 types of services for companies thathave grown to depend on Redis and would like…

• The three most common ways data junkies are using Hadoop

  Shaun Connolly (Hortonworks) lists the 3 most commons usages of Hadoop in a guest post on GigaOm : Data refinery Data exploration Application enrichment Nothing new here, except the new buzzwords used to describe those Hadoop use cases that were slowly, but steadily establishing as patterns.…