• IBM Speeds Big Data File Transfers with Aspera Acquisition

  IBM announced an agreement to acquire Emeryville, California-based Aspera, which helps companies securely speed the movement of massive data files around the world.

• An Integrated Approach to DCIM: A Parallel Evolution in Data Center Facilities Management

  Data center managers pay as much attention to monitoring, managing and maintaining the physical systems - power, cooling, and so on - that support the IT equipment as IT managers do to their IT assets. And just as IT management has evolved to deal with the increasing complexity of the IT environment…

• The Top 10 Data Center M&A Deals of 2013

  Data center industry acquisitions during 2013 were more targeted and strategic. There were some blockbuster deals, such as IBM's acquisition of SoftLayer and NTT's acquisition of RagingWire, but single facility acquisitions were the big trend.

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• Hadoop will be made better through engineering

  Hadoop will be made better through engineering : Dan Woods prefacing an interview with Scott Gnau of Teradata: In this vision, because Hadoop can store unstructured andstructured information, because it can scale massively,because it is open source, because it allows many forms ofanalysis, because…

• Datameer Secures $19 Million for Big Data Analytics

  Big data analytics firm Datameer raises $19 million to grow the company, DataOn becomes certified to take advantage of the Storage Spaces feature on Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2, and Panzura helps Mead & Hunt offload storage to the cloud.

• Amazon EC2 HI1 Instance Price Reduction & Spot Availability

  I am happy to announce a reduction in the On Demand and Reserved Instance (RI) prices for EC2's HI1 (First Generation High I/O Performance) instances in select AWS regions, effective December 1, 2013, along with availability in the form of...

• Amazon EC2's New I2 Instance Type - Available Now!

  Late last month I gave you a sneak peak at our newest EC2 instance type, the I2. These instance types are available today, in four sizes across seven AWS regions. The I2 instance type was designed to host I/O intensive...