• Red Hat Launches Open Shift Enterprise 2 PaaS Platform

  Joyent launches enterprise support for Node.js, Red Hat releases version 2 of its OpenShift Enterprise PaaS, and HP Propel helps IT organizations become Service Brokers.

• PayPal and Groupon Go All In With Node.js

  Developers at staid technology companies such as eBay and PayPal have seen the perks of developing with the hip server-side JavaScript runtime Node.js. Many have watched it speed application development and lower memory utilization in comparison with more traditional programming languages.

• How to Move Bigger Data into the Cloud

  While cloud storage does not necessarily meet IT's growing storage capacity needs, adding cloud-integrated storage into existing NAS or SAN environments makes it relatively easy to relocate data securely into a cloud provider, eliminating the need to maintain an expanding on-premise storage…

• Google Research: Moore's Law series

  Not strictly a NoSQL or even data related series of posts from Google research, but a very interesting read about Moore's law, what kind of research is happening in this space, and what we need to do to have the same advance in 10-15 years: This series quotes major sources about Moore's Law…

• What Antarctica looks like underneath the ice

  Based largely on satellite data and the results of an airborne data collection mission compiled by the British Antarctic Survey, …

• Does Meteor scale? Polling for changes in MongoDB

  Does Meteor scale? Polling for changes in MongoDB : Jon James in an article looking at the scalability of the Meteor framework , which uses MongoDB as its database: Meteor is all real-time, which it currently achieves by fetching andcomparing documents after every database write operation. Meteor…

• Liquid Web Launches Storm Private Cloud

  Liquid Web has a new private cloud offering that consists of a bare metal server on its Storm cloud platform that can be easily partitioned and moved between private and public clouds.