• CQL3 Support for DataStax Enterprise Search

  Introduction: Back in DSE 3.2 we quietly introduced support for CQL3 and DataStax Enterprise Search, but did little to showcase the new way of using CQL3 sets, lists, maps, and compound primary keys with Solr.

• Phunware Raises $30 Million To Grow 'Software of Things'

  Multiscreen as a Service (MaaS) pioneer Phunware announced that it has raised $26.25 million of Series E funding led by Firsthand Technology Value Fund.

• Data Center Power: Looking at Emerging Options for Quality Energy

  Data center power is a critical aspect of any modern infrastructure. This webcast explores key concepts around emerging options around quality energy and offers attendees the opportunity to earn a 1-hour Continuing Education Unit (CEU) towards the maintenance of their professional certification.

• Microservices: Infrastructure Automation

  To get the benefits of a microservice approach you need to able to deploy code frequently, so deployments and infrastructure management needs to be automated . All this services also imply more frequent partial failures, which have to be expected as part of service design.

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• OnRamp Completes Second Austin Data Center

  OnRamp is set to open its second Austin, Texas data center, a 42,000 square foot building with dedicated data center space for HIPAA hosting. The company is a hybrid provider of colocation, cloud, and managed services.

• Hadoop Pioneer Cloudera Raises Whopping $160 Million

  From pioneer to leader, big data powerhouse Cloudera brings its total amount raised to $300 million, after announcing that it has closed a new $160 million financing round to accelerate its growth in 2014.

• Disaster Recovery & Backup Are Part of Cloud Storage, Not Stand-alone Apps

  It's time to give up on incrementally improving a broken backup system, and instead move forward toward a new model for data protection. The cloud holds much more potential than a cheap dumping ground for backup and archive data, writes Andres Rodriguez of Nasuni.

• Wholesale Provider Ascent Opens Colocation Operation In Chicago

  Data center provider Ascent is launching a colocation operation out of one of its data centers near Chicago. The move reflects a growing trend of the lines blurring between wholesale and retail colocation.

• Adobe Media Server is Now Available on the AWS Marketplace

  I love to browse through the AWS Marketplace. There are hundreds of software infrastructure components, developer tools, and a very healthy collection of business software, all of which can be purchased and launched within minutes. One of the latest Marketplace...