• Artist temperaments

  Just for kicks, Jimmy Chen plotted artists on a subjective arrogance-vs-genius scale. Above is the one for singers.

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• Box Raises $100 Million for Expansion

  Box gets $100 million to aid global expansion, the University of Florida selects DDN for converged infrastructure, HP helps Norfolk County harness big data, and SAP NetWeaver, a new rapid-deployment for near-line storage.

• Intel Launches Communications Platform for Network Transformation

  Intel (INTC) announced its foundation plans for network transformation in software defined networking and network functions virtualization Wednesday, highlighted with the launch of Highland Forest - its new communications platform.

• Need for Speed: How Groupon Migrated to Node.js

  Groupon might seem like a place where application development happens fast. But engineers weren't able to move quickly enough, prompting the company to make a major architectural move over the past year to Node.js.

• Friday Funny: Natural Cooling

  It's Friday and time for a bit of humor before the work week ends. And you know what that means -- it's time for the new data center cartoon.

• 2014 Will Be The Year That ARM Breaks The x86 Monoculture

  With the 2014 introduction of 64-bit low-power ARM SoC-based servers, we can expect to see a more diverse server market, wrties Graeme Caldwell of InterWorx. The data center industry is going to experience huge changes as low-powered servers revolutionize the way we think about data center…

• The December Cloud Job Update: Big Data, Applications, and Security

  As cloud evolves, so does the job of the IT professional. Find out why big data, new application delivery models and security are key for the cloud architect.

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• MySQL slow query collection sources

  MySQL slow query collection sources : Morgan Tocker: The other day it struck me that MySQL applications have no fewer than foursources to be able to collect potentially slow queries for analysis, andthat I actually find myself using 3/4 methods available. The source listed: application…

• Tag Your Elastic MapReduce Clusters

  Amazon Elastic MapReduce gives you the power to process vast amounts of data using Hadoop, an open source parallel processing framework. Behind the scenes, each Elastic MapReduce cluster runs on an array of Amazon EC2 instances. These clusters can grow...