• Places in the US with the most pleasant days per year

  We've seen plenty of maps the past few weeks that show how bad the weather is, in just about everywhere …

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• Encouraging Good Citizenship in the Data Centre

  Ask not what your data centre can do for you, but what you can do for your data centre, writes Andy Huxtable of CenturyLink Technology Solutions. He states that it's essential that customers understand the positive impact they can have on improving multi-tenanted environments.

• SaaS vs. On-Premise Monitoring: Know the Difference

  Find out why monitoring is well-suited to a cloud model, and how a SaaS monitoring helps with higher reliability, better support, and lower costs.

• Splunk and Internet2 Join Forces for Higher Education

  Splunk (SPLK) and Internet2 announced a strategic agreement to bring Splunk software to hundreds of potential new higher-education customers.

• Integrating MongoDB and Hadoop at Foursquare

  Integrating MongoDB and Hadoop at Foursquare : Joe Ennever, Data Infrastructure Engineer, describes how Foursquare is integrating Hadoop with MongoDB. The process is complicated and looks quite fragile: Every six hours a process running on each node issues anLVM snapshot command for the disk on…

• Top 10 Ways to Improve Your Cloud Career and IT Skill Set

  What have you done recently to enhance your cloud and IT career? Here are 10 great ways to develop your cloud career and get ahead

• Reports: Apple is Building Its Own Content Delivery Network

  Apple is building its own content delivery network (CDN) to deliver services to consumers, according to reports from Dan Rayburn and The Wall Street Journal.