• Data Center Resources: Top Data Center Industry Groups

  Data center industry groups provide critical connections and resources for busy professionals. Here's a look at some of the leading groups providing thought leadership for the data center industry

• DreamHost Closes $30M in Financing from Goldman Sachs

  This article originally appeared on TheWHIR. DreamHost announced last week that it has closed $30 million in financing from Goldman Sachs Bank, advised by DH Capital. The financing, which closed on Nov. 27, will go towards buying back the stake of a founder, paying down equipment financing, and cash…

• GE Critical Power Gear Supports ViaWest Data Centers

  GE Critical Power is providing a range of electrical distribution equipment to ViaWest's data centers in Las Vegas, Denver, Dallas, and Minneapolis

• Renovation of refactoring.com

  After I finished Refactoring , I created a small web site at refactoring.com to act as an online summary of the refactorings in the book. It's mainstay is a catalog which provides a brief summary of each refactoring. I built it around 2000 and until today it still was very much a product of the…

• RightScale Extends Cloud Management to VMware vSphere

  RightScale has extended its cloud management capabilities by introducing an on-premises software appliance that adds and simplifies VMware vSphere usage, management and analytics.

• Learn octal file permissions easily with stat

  My SANS classmates were learning how to set and recognize file permissions on a Linux server and we realized it would be helpful to display the octal value of the permissions next to the normal rwx display. Fortunately, a quick search revealed that stat could deliver this information: # stat -c…

• More Assets, More Complexity Raise the Bar for DCIM

  The sheer number of computing assets we could now accommodate in the physical data center, including network devices, applications, servers and storage devices, put more pressure on the day-to-day management practicalities, writes Suvish Viswanathan. This has resulted in the need for more visibility…

• Nominations Sought for AFCOM's Data Center Manager of the Year Award

  Do you know someone who is an outstanding professional in the data center management field? AFCOM is seeking nominations for its Data Center Manager of the Year Award.

• Why relationships are cool... Relationship in RDBMS vs graph databases

  I have to agree with Patrick Durusau on this : I have been trying to avoid graph "intro" slides andpresentations. There are only so many times you can stand to hear "…allthe world is a graph…" as though that's news. To anyone. This presentation by Luca is different from the…

• Integrating R with Cloudera Impala for Real-Time queries on Hadoop

  Integrating R with Cloudera Impala for Real-Time queries on Hadoop : A very long tutorial by Istvan Szegedi on how to integrate R with Cloudera Impala, through the ODBC driver: Cloudera Impala is an exciting new technology to provide real-time,interactive queries in Hadoop environment. It supports…