• Cyan Packet-Optical Enhancements and SDN Programmability

  Looking to usher in a new era for carrier network transformation and empower 100 Gigabit Ethernet transitions, Cyan (CYNI) announced major enhancements to both the Cyan Z-Series Packet-Optical hardware and Blue Planet SDN Platform.

• Nimble Storage Launches New Converged Infrastructure Solution

  Flash-optimized strorage provider Nimble Storage announced SmartStack - a new converged infrastructure solution that allows enterprises to address the storage performance challenges for desktop and server virtualization workloads in a single converged infrastructure stack.

• Cray Selected for $40 Million Department of Defense Contract

  Cray announced that it has been awarded two supercomputing contracts totaling more than $40 million to provide the Department of Defense (DOD) High Performance Computing Modernization Program (HPCMP) with three Cray XC30 supercomputers and two Cray Sonexion storage systems

• New Data Center Design Drives Efficiency Gains for Dupont Fabros

  Dupont Fabros' ACC7 will be the company's biggest and most efficient data center ever, with an expected PUE of 1.14 or lower. The facility employs a new design that takes advantage of medium voltage, a new cooling system, and offers better customer flexibility.

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• Data Center Interconnection: Outlook for 100G DWDM Pizza Boxes

  While it will remain a 10G world well into the future, the necessity to link data centers at the 100G rate is gradually climbing – and the pricing on these optics is expected to come down dramatically in the near term, writes Mark Lutkowitz of Packet Light Networks.

• Reporter app, for self-discovery through data

  Nicholas Felton, Drew Breunig, and Friends of the Web released Reporter for iPhone. The app—$3.99 on the app store—prompts you …

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• MapR Hadoop Upgrade Spins YARN, Supports HP Vertica Analytics Platform

  At the O'Reilly Strata Conference in Santa Clara this week MapR Technologies announced the latest MapR Distribution including Hadoop 2.2 with YARN, an early access release for HP Vertica Analytics Platform on MapR, and a free Sandbox for Hadoop.