• Parkour - Idiomatic Clojure for Map Reduce

  If you are running out of interesting projects to experiment with during this seasonal break, Parkour is a Clojure library for writing MapReduce jobs. From Marshall Bockrath-Vandegrift's guest post on Cloudera's blog : Parkour is our new Clojure library that carries thisphilosophy to the…

• Seagate Acquires Xyratex

  Seagate (STX) announced it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire hard drive test equipment maker Xyratex for approximately $374 million.

• The Fruits of Innovation: Top 10 IT Trends in 2014

  The changes we're due to see in 2014 start with the way people think. A good bit of the change going on in IT is about the maturity of its business leaders and their business planning skills associated with all of those changes, writes Mark Harris of Nylte. He outlines a number of changes coming…

• Colocation Outlook 2014: Connectivity is Critical in a Changing Landscape

  Data center connectivity is becoming a key differentiator as wholesale data center providers compete for customers with colocation companies. As the industry heads into 2014, the blurring of lines between "retail" colo and wholesale space is leading more providers to offer flavors of both…

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