• NSA Will Cool its Secret Servers With Waste Water

  A new data center being built by the National Security Agency (NSA) will use up to 5 million gallons a day of treated wastewater from a Maryland utility. With its use of local waste water, the NSA is emulating a strategy adopted by Google.

• CloudSigma Adds Live Snapshotting To Its Cloud

  Public Infrastructure-as-a-Service provider CloudSigma has added Snapshot technology which has practical uses in cloud disaster recovery, as well as testing and development.

• An Introduction to the C# Driver for Cassandra

  The C# driver allows .Net developers to write applications that utilize Cassandra.

• Multi level composite-id routing in SolrCloud

  SolrCloud over the last year has evolved into a rather intelligent system with a lot of interesting and useful features going in. One of them has been the work for intelligent routing of documents and queries. SolrCloud started off with a basic hash based routing in 4.0. It then got interesting with…