• Converging the Modern Data Center Layers

  As a key business component, the data center platform must continue to be efficient, scalable, and optimized. Find out how convergence can make an impact.

• Closer Look: IO's Open Compute Cloud Hardware

  Here's a closer look at the hardware powering IO.Cloud, which is housed inside IO.Anywhere data center modules in the company's New Jersey and Phoenix data centers.

• Codero Gets $8M in Financing, Plans Dallas Expansion

  Hosting provider Codero received $8 million in financing from Silicon Valley Bank and Farnam Street Financial, and will use the funds to expand its hybrid hosting product across all of its data center locations as well as expand into the Dallas/Ft. Worth market.

• IO Launches OpenStack Cloud on Open Compute Hardware

  Data center provider IO has entered the cloud computing market with IO.Cloud, a new platform running on Open Stack software and Open Compute hardware.

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• Neo4j trick: using remote shell combined with Neo4j embedded

  Neo4j trick: using remote shell combined with Neo4j embedded : Stefan Armbruster: In cases where Neo4j is used in embedded mode, there is often a demand forhaving a maintenance channel to the database, e.g. for fixing wrong data.Nothing simpler than that, there's an easy way to enable the remote…

• Members Only: How to Map Geographic Paths in R

  As people and things move through a place, it can be useful to see their connected paths instead of just individual points.

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• Data Center Jobs: McKinstry

  At the Data Center Jobs Board, we have a new job listing from McKinstry, which is seeking a Assistant Critical Facility Manager.

• How Next-Generation IIMs Help Overcome The Challenges of Mixed-Topology Environments

  The rapid transition to cloud computing and virtualization has led many data centers to begin replacing existing three-tier networks with "new" flat topologies – ironically, these are the same "outdated" topologies they abandoned years ago, writes Tal Harel of RiT Technologies.