• Embrane Gets $14 Million to Accelerate App-Centric Network Services

  Cisco leads a $14 million funding round for Embrane to enhance its go-to-market strategy, Arista expands its cloud platform with two new 100GbE modules, and Dell launches new networking solutions, featuring the Z9500 Fabric Switch. Read More

• Abstracting the Data Center: A look at the DCOS Platform

  Data center abstraction is an emerging field where all physical and logical components are abstracted and inserted into a powerful management layer. As your data center becomes more critical - and more distributed - the DCOS platform can help you abstract your data center. Read More

• Leaders Achieve Best Practice With DCIM

  Implementing DCIM software requires leadership, writes Laura Greden of CA Technologies. This article outlines three key principles of effective leadership, demonstrated by true stories of how DCIM software is helping real people lead change for their business. Read More

• Zettaset Adds Data-in-Motion Encryption for Hadoop

  Big data management company Zettaset has added a new data-in-motion encryption capability to its Orchestrator management and security add-on application for Hadoop. Read More

• Schneider Electric Takes StruxureWare to the Azure Cloud

  Take Schneider Electric's StruxureWare Resource Advisor, Add Microsoft's Azure Cloud, and you get custom built tools for sustainability monitoring, delivered anywhere. The alliance will target customers' specific energy management needs. Read More

• Xen hackathon coming up in London

  If you enjoy using Xen, join members of the Xen Project community and Rackspace at the Xen Hackathon in London. The two day event starts on May 29th. Use these links to get more information: Hackathon announcement and travel/venue/registration information Discussion topics You don't need to…

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• With Blue Mix, IBM Services Meet the SoftLayer Cloud

  To realize its cloud ambitions, IBM must find a way to connect its existing base of enterprise customers to the SoftLayer platform. A key ingredient in IBM's effort is Blue Mix, a Platform as a Service offering that Big Blue introduced last month. Here's a closer look at Blue Mix. Read More

• Amazon Cuts Prices Too

  Well, if nothing else I'm happy to have Google Cloud around to provide some competition to push Amazon Web Services.  Immediately after Google announced dramatic price drops, Amazon has responded doing the same! Now if they can only also shame … Continue reading →

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• Smoking rates and income

  Based on a study on smoking prevalence from 1996 to 2012, a map by The New York Times shows the …

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