• Recovering From A Data Center Fire in 16 Hours

  A data center fire doesn't have to be a showstopper, according to Robert Von Wolffradt, the Chief Information Officer for the state of Iowa. He shares the state's experience in a Feb. 18 incident affecting its primary data center.

• Titanfall Taps Windows Azure Cloud for Low-Latency Gaming

  Cloud infrastructure has been well tested for enterprise workloads. But can it handle the demands of gamers, who are ultra-sensitive to network lag? Behold Titanfall, running on the Microsoft Windows Azure cloud.

• 10 Steps to Holistic Data Center Design

  Is your data center growing? Is it time to move or expand? Here are 10 steps to creating a holistic data center design.

• Members Only: How to Make Smoothed Density Maps in R

  Too many points to plot often means obscured patterns in the clutter. Density maps offer a smooth alternative.

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• Actifio Secures $100 Million, Funding Values Company at $1.1 Billion

  With 182 percent annual growth rate and over 1 Exabyte of data under management, copy data virtualization company Actifio announced it has secured an oversubscribed $100 million funding round led by Tiger Global Management, with participation from current investors.

• CenturyLink to Add 20 Megawatts of Data Center Space in 2014

  CenturyLink Technology Solutions is adding new capacity in eight markets, including three new data center sites. The new builds will add more than 20 megawatts of capacity and 180,000 square feet to the CenturyLink footprint.

• RAI: A Metric to Measure Whether Your Data Center is Operating Lean

  One potential solution for data center operational expenditure (OPEX) optimization lies in adopting the usage-based pricing model for resource consumption, writes Rajat Ghosh of Georgia Tech. This article proposes a metric, namely resource allocation index (RAI), to measure the matching between…

• The Forrester Wave for Hadoop market

  This is the Q1 2014 Forrester Wave for Hadoop: A couple of thoughts: Cloudera, Hortonworks, MapR are positioned very (very) close. Hortonworks is position closer to the top right meaning they report more customers/larger install base MapR is higher on the vertical axis meaning that MapR's…

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• Data Center Jobs: Viawest

  At the Data Center Jobs Board, we have a new job listing from Viawest, which is seeking a Data Center Engineer in Hillsboro, Oregon.

• Open-Sourcing ThoughtWorks Go

  ThoughtWorks recently announced the open-sourcing of our product Go - which supports Continuous Delivery . This kind of event tends to raise questions, so I organized an interview with Chad Wathington , who is a Managing Director of ThoughtWorks Studios (our product division). He answers questions…

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• Are Microservices the Future?

  The final installment of our article on microservices moves beyond the list of characteristics to assess the question of whether microservices should be the future of enterprise application architecture .

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• City on a Cloud Innovation Challenge

  Cloud computing can help local governments to spur economic development, expand citizen services, and break through siloed bureaucracy by providing innovative & scalable services without wasting taxpayer funds on expensive and inflexible hardware infrastructure. We've already seen a lot…