• Microsoft Invests in Foursquare, Google and Cisco Cross-License Patents

  Microsoft invests $15 million in Foursquare and licenses location data, and Google and Cisco agree to a broad cross-licensing agreement to avoid unnecessary patent lawsuits.

• DCK Video: Hyve Launches Front I/O Optimized Servers

  Hyve Solutions, a division of SYNNEX Corporation, unveiled its new front I/O optimized servers, called the Ambient Series, last week during the Open Compute Summit V in San Jose, California. On the floor of the exhibit hall, Data Center Knowledge took a tour of Hyve's offerings with Steve…

• Bitcoin Miners Building 10 Megawatt Data Center in Sweden

  KnC Miner is building Bitcoin's version of the Death Star - a 10 megawatt data center filled with high-powered computers mining for cryptocurrency. The new facility is in Boden, Sweden, just 10 miles down the road from a Facebook data center.

• The Cisco Invicta Platform: Taking Convergence to a New Level

  What happens when you integrate complete convergence with software-defined technologies? Find out how the new Cisco Invicta takes convergence to a new level.

• Data Centers Should Trust Emergency Power to UL 1008 Listed Automatic Transfer Switches

  When utility power at a data center fails, automatic switchover to an emergency backup power system that enables "business-as-usual" is the ideal scenario, writes Bhavesh Patel of ASCO. But sometimes that doesn't happen because the transfer switch itself fails.While automatic transfer switches…

• TELUS Opens Highly Efficient Data Center In British Columbia, Canada

  Canadian telco provider TELUS has opened a technologically advanced and energy efficient data center in Kamloops, British Columbia. The facility will serve as the foundation of TELUS' cloud computing services for thousands of Canadian businesses.

• OpenDaylight Project Releases Software to Simplify SDN

  During the OpenDaylight Summit in Santa Clara this week for advancing Software-Defined Networking (SDN) and network functions virtualization (NFV), IBM announced a new unified network controller based on OpenDaylight Project technology designed to get organizations up and running fast on Software…

• Facebook Rethinks How It Builds Data Centers: Legos or IKEA?

  Facebook is working on ways to streamline its data center construction, but it hasn't yet decided whether to go the Lego route or try the IKEA approach. The goal is to create a repeatable design for a "Rapid Deployment Data Center" that can work anywhere in the world.

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• Big Data's 2 big years is actually Hadoop

  Big Data's 2 big years is actually Hadoop : Doug Henschen makes two great points: Everyone wants to sell Hadoop: Practically every vendor out there has embraced Hadoop, going well beyondthe fledgling announcements and primitive "connectors" that were prevalenttwo years ago. Industry…

• Don't miss this upcoming webinar: Getting The Most Out Of Your Flash/SSDs [sponsor]

  Words from myNoSQL's supporter, Aerospike : One of the most important things to improve the performance of your flash/SSDs with Aerospike, is to properly prepare them. This webinar will go through how to select, test, and prepare the drives so that you will get the best performance and lifetime…

• Data Center Jobs: Jones Lang LaSalle

  At the Data Center Jobs Board, we have a new job listing from Jones Lang LaSalle, which is seeking an HR Coordinator.