• Verizon To Acquire CDN EdgeCast Networks

  Verizon has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire CDN provider EdgeCast Networks. The combination of complementary capabilities from Verizon, a prior acquisition, upLynk, and EdgeCast, further boosts performance of Verizon Digital Media Services' end-to-end services.

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• Network News: Ciena, Juniper, F5

  Ciena helps Shentel scale and expand its networks and helps Globalcom upgrade its submarine cable system with 100G, Juniper advances its Junos Pulse solutions, and F5 Networks helps power the Verizon Cloud.

• Approaches to Backup and Disaster Recovery in HBase

  Approaches to Backup and Disaster Recovery in HBase : This should must be part of your HBase operational manual: Let's start with the least disruptive, smallest data footprint, leastperformance-impactful mechanism and work our way up to the most disruptive,forklift-style tool: Snapshots …

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• Five Tips for Finding the Right SSD

  When selecting an SSD for your environment, there are a variety of factors that you need to take into account if you are going to eventually choose a solution that can properly meet your needs, writes Esther Spanjer of SanDisk.

• Opscode Rebrands as Chef, Raises $32 Million

  Opscode has rebranded itself as Chef, unveiling its new identity along with $32 million in funding from a Series D venture capital round.

• Aerospike - 12 data points for December [sponsor]

  Words from a post by this week's myNoSQL sponsor, Aeropsike : At last count, there are some 165 different databases, including relational, in-memory, and NoSQL. And trying to sort through that list is no holiday. That's why we pulled together 12 Data Points for December on the Aerospike NoSQL…

• TokuMX transactions for MongoDB

  In two posts, the Tokutek guys are explaining how transactions work on TokuMX, the replacement engine they are proposing to MongoDB users—remember that Vadim Tkachenko (" MySQL Performance blog ") called TokuMX the InnoDB for MongoDB ?: the what : Introducing TokuMX transactions for MongoDB…

• Apache Ambari is now an Apache Top Level Project

  Apache Ambari is now an Apache Top Level Project : Hortonworks: We are very excited to announce that Apache Ambari has graduated out ofIncubator and is now an Apache Top Level Project! Ambari is a framework for provisioning, managing, and monitoring Hadoop clusters. ✚ Such a tool is usually…