• Salesforce.com Boosts Strategic Investments in Europe

  Salesforce.com announces plans to boost its European strategy in response to customer and revenue growth in the region, VMware and Carpathia team to offer a vCloud Government Service offering, and Red Hat brings Enterprise Linux to the Amazon GovCloud (US).

• VYCON Lands 8 Megawatt Flywheel Deal

  A data center in Texas has chosen VYCON's flywheel systems to provide eight megawatts of battery-free power protection.

• Software-Defined Storage: What Does It Really Mean?

  Looking to control your storage infrastructure? Want to expand your cloud and data center platform? Find out how software-defined storage can help.

• OpsCenter 4.1.1 Now Available

  OpsCenter 4.1.1 , which is a bug fix release, is now available on the Download page . Full details can be seen in the release notes .

• The Ergonomic Data Center: Save Us from Ourselves

  While no design may be foolproof, there a few things that you should be looking for to help reduce the likelihood of those "oh s**t" moments that can ruin everyone's day in the blink of an eye, writes Chris Crosby of Compass Datacenters.

• Scott Noteboom to Keynote Data Center World Global Conference

  Scott Noteboom, who has headed data center teams at Apple and Yahoo, will be the keynote speaker for the Data Center World Global Conference 2014, which is being held April 28 to May 2 in Las Vegas.

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• Puppet 3.2 Adds Content Modules, Speeds Deployment

  Automation provider Puppet Labs continues to streamline its platform, releasing version 3.2. The new version adds modules to help IT teams get up and running more quickly, as well as simplifies agent installs and adds a tech preview of physical and virtual hardware provisioning solution, Razor.