• Open Compute Summit, 2014

  January 28-29: San Jose Convention Center, San Jose, CA

• Study: Data Center Downtime Costs $7,900 Per Minute

  Unplanned data center outages are expensive, and getting more costly. A new study sponsored by Emerson Network Power reveals that the cost of downtime has increased 41 percent since an original 2010 study.

• Google Compute Engine Reaches General Availability

  A year after launching its cloud platform Google announced the general availability of Google Compute Engine, and added several new features and lower prices for persistent disks and popular compute instances.

• Cloud Startup DigitalOcean Expands in Europe

  Cloud infrastructure company DigitalOcean has opened its new Amsterdam data center, located in a TelecityGroup facility. The AMS2 data center will offer DigitalOcean expanded server capacity in Europe.

• Soft-wrapping on prose diffs

  Starting today, diffs on prose documents are soft-wrapped. Before: After: Review without scrolling, comment with ease, and stop hard-wrapping your prose documents.

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