• Amazon Rivals Collaborate: Dell, Microsoft Unveil Cloud Partner Ecosystems

  Dell Announced it is partnering with some of the world's biggest cloud players at Dell World. Microsoft announces its Cloud OS Network. Two tech giants are taking different approaches in their attempts to gain cloud market share.

• Rackspace Expands Fanatical Support to DevOps and Automation

  Rackspace has extended its fanatical support to DevOps automation. Dubbed DevOps Automation Services, it will help developers and IT departments accelerate a project's time to market, allowing them to deploy, scale and test new configurations in hours rather than days. The service will also help…

• HP Expands Cloud Portfolio With CloudSystem

  At the HP Discover event this week in Barcelona, HP (HPQ) announced an expansion of its cloud portfolio, with new services and solutions to help embrace new delivery models, greater agility, and improved security for hybrid environments.

• Gartner: Capacity Concerns Will Make DCIM a $1 Billion Market

  Roughly 36 percent of the audience in a Gartner conference session reported they will be likely to significantly implement Data Center Infrastructure Management (DCIM) tools in their data center in 2014, and another 25 percent predicted they will implement in the next two years. Gartner analysts…

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• Splunk Acquires Cloudmeter, Egnyte Raises $29 Million

  Splunk acquires network data capture provider Cloudmeter, Egnyte secures $29.5 million from big name investors for its enterprise file sharing platform, and Cleversafe expands its object storage capabilities.

• Coming Soon to Solr: Efficient Cursor Based Iteration of Large Result Sets

  One thing Solr has never been very efficient at is a problem that people refer to as "Deep Paging". Simply put: asking Solr for "Page #1″ of a search result is very efficient, so is asking for Page #2, and Page #3, etc… for small page numbers; but as the page numbers get bigger and…

• NYC Solr Meetup: Lucene/Solr – The Default Search Engine for Hadoop (Feb. 12)

  Over the last 12-18 months there has been a recognition in the Big Data/Hadoop marketplace that while Hadoop makes it possible to process terabytes (or even petabytes) of data there needs to be a way to access that data in a quick and predictable way that also leverages many of the features users…

• Now Available - Global Secondary Indexes for Amazon DynamoDB

  As I promised a few weeks ago, Amazon DynamoDB now supports Global Secondary Indexes. You can now create indexes and perform lookups using attributes other than the item's primary key. With this change, DynamoDB goes beyond the functionality traditionally provided...