• Google May Expand Dublin Data Center Footprint

  Google is planning to expand its data center footprint in Dublin, Ireland with a new $200 million facility, according to reports in the Irish press. The project continues the building boom in the western outskirts of Dublin.

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• Germany's Merkel Calls for Separate European Internet

  German Chancellor Angela Merkel proposed the creation of a separate European communications network that would keep data within the EU's borders and not allow it to pass through U.S. based servers.

• How the AOL.com Architecture Evolved to 99.999% Availability, 8 Million Visitors Per Day, and 200,000 Requests Per Second

  This is a guest post by Dave Hagler Systems Architect at AOL. The AOL homepages receive more than 8 million visitors per day .  That's more daily viewers than Good Morning America or the Today Show on television.  Over a billion page views are served each month.  AOL.com has been a major…

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• Two Thirds

  This is not my usual programming-related blog post. I decided to blog about books I have been reading. I'm a long time fan of the Honor Harrington Series , a military science fiction series that draws on the spirit of 17~19 century naval series such as Horatio Hornblower  or Aubrey-Maturin…

• Surviving on minimum wage

  As most of us know, it's not easy getting by on minimum wage, and in some places it's not possible. …

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• LSI, EMC, Mellanox and Supermicro Join for Hyper-Converged VDI Appliance

  LSI collaborates with EMC, Supermicro and Mellanox for a hyper-converged appliance supporting VMware virtual desktops, F5 and VMware collaborate on a number of efforts to provide secure access control for virtual desktop deployments, and Silver Peak enables VMware vCloud Hybrid Service with…