• Geeky Fun for Friday: A Beginner's Guide to Raspberry Pi

  For some geeky fun, why not set up a tiny Raspberry Pi computer? The little case-less computer that can fit in your pocket can pack enough punch to support your home media center, a VPN, and a lot more.

• The Future of Bitcoin: Corporate Mines and Network Peering?

  What's the end game of the Bitcoin mining arms race? Some Bitcoin watchers believe the network will ultimately shift from mining for new coins to a model based on transaction fees, which could accelerate a shift of Bitcoin hardware into data centers and the creation of peering networks to manage…

• Equinix Expands in Melbourne and London

  Equinix announces global expansion plans with a new Melbourne Australia data center, and a sixth data center for its successful Slough campus in London.

• Terremark Expands by 4MW in Santa Clara with PowerHouse

  Verizon Terremark recently added four megawatts of backup power at its Santa Clara data center campus by deploying PowerHouse modular power units from Active Power (ACPW).

• How to Prepare Private Cloud Services with a Hybrid Cloud Future in Mind

  Both the value and types of hybrid cloud models available are expanding, writes Adam Fore of NetApp. And this means IT managers need to re-think their approach, using their expertise to assess cloud services and deploy applications to the best-suited resource, public cloud, private cloud, or…

• Schneider Electric, HP Team To Bring Facilities and IT Together

  Schneider Electric and HP are teaming to bundle Schneider's Data Center Infrastructure Management) (DCIM and HP's IT Service Management (ITSM) This provides a holistic view and helps bridge the gap between IT and facilities.

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• Migrating databases with zero downtime

  Every article I've read and linked to that includes a data migration phase from one database to another tells the same story : forklift incremental replication consistency checking shadow writes shadow writes and shadow reads for validation end of life of the original data store The same…

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• Faster & More Cost-Effective SSD-Based Nodes for Amazon Redshift

  Amazon Redshift provides customers with fast, fully managed, SQL-based data warehousing in the AWS Cloud at a tenth the price of traditional solutions. In previous blog posts, we've talked about Redshift's launch, global expansion, and new features. Today we are...