• Internap Showcases New Secaucus Data Center

  Internap Network Services unveiled its newest data center in Secaucus last night, offering a look inside a facility that will be a key driver of the company's ambitions in the greater New York market.

• Pacnet Opens Data Center in Singapore

  Asia-Pacific network provider Pacnet has opened CloudSpace II (SGCS2) in Singapore, which is a financial and commercial hub in the Asia-Pacific region.

• Trusted Software Alliance launches new podcast and news series

  The Trusted Software Alliance News Network launched this week and is featuring 5 minute daily doses of AppSec and DevOps news. The show is run by @eusp along with weekly co-hosts @damonedwards, @cote and yours truly (@wickett).  Check out the inaugural post and follow the … Continue reading…

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• Juniper Introduces Firefly Security Suite

  As the cloud security market ramps up, Juniper Networks unveils a portfolio of security tools, called Firefly Suite, that provides granular, dynamic and secure connectivity for the private and public cloud.

• VMware and Capgemini Expand Partnership for Cloud Orchestration

  Capgemini and VMware (VMW) have expanded a strategic partnership to jointly develop new solutions that extend Capgemini's service integration and orchestration platform by leveraging VMware's cloud management offerings.

• IBM Commits $1.2 Billion To Cloud, Adding 15 Global Data Centers

  IBM is kicking cloud expansion into high gear this year, planning to invest $1.2 billion in expanding its cloud infrastructure to 15 new data centers worldwide.

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• Extreme Networks Named NFL Wi-Fi Analytics Provider

  Addressing the issues with analyzing and solving the challenges associated with connectivity in stadiums, the National Football League has named Extreme Networks (EXTR) as the official Wi-Fi Analytics provider for the League and Super Bowl XLVIII.

• 2014 is the Year Servers Get 'Smart,' Hybrid Cloud Grows Up

  While both public and private cloud deployments are on the rise, it's hybrid cloud environments that currently provide organizations with cloud computing's best benefits–- a trend that will shift in 2014 as the next generation of dedicated servers, or "smart servers," evolve to offer all…

• Scale-up vs Scale-out for Hadoop: Time to rethink?

  Scale-up vs Scale-out for Hadoop: Time to rethink? : A paper authored by a Microsoft Research team: In the last decade we have seen a huge deployment of cheapclusters to run data analytics workloads. The conventional wisdom in industry and academia is that scaling out using a cluster of commodity…

• Everything is faster than Hive

  Everything is faster than Hive : Derrick Harris has brought together a series of benchmarks conducted by the different SQL-on-Hadoop implementors comparing their solution (Impala, Stinger/Tez, HAWQ, Shark) with For what it's worth, everyone is faster than Hive — that's the whole pointof all…

• CiRBA Adds Hyper-V Support in Latest Software Update

  CiRBA, which provides automated capacity control for virtual machine workloads, has shipped version 8 of its platform. The big new addition is Microsoft Hyper-V support. CiRBA supports a multi-hypervisor strategy.