• As It Expands in San Antonio, Microsoft Sees Data Centers Transforming the Power Grid

  Microsoft wants to use its data centers to help transform the way electricity is delivered in the United States. That process will focus on San Antonio, TX, where the company has confirmed plans to build a new $250 million data center. Read More

• Riverbed's SteelFusion 3.0 Will Transform Branch Office IT

  Changing the economics of IT for remote offices Riverbed launched SteelFusion 3.0, the first branch converged infrastructure that centralizes data in the data center, delivers local performance, and offers nearly instant recovery at the branch office. Read More

• Texas Instruments Launches Internet of Things Ecosystem

  Texas Instruments introduces an Internet of Things (IoT) ecosystem for cloud providers and ARM and Sensor Platforms team to launch open source software for sensor hubs. Read More

• Fusion-io Accelerates SQL Server 2014

  Unlocking performance gains for MS-SQL, Fusion-io announced that the ioMemory platform has been optimized for performance with SQL Server 2014. Read More

• Apache Hadoop 2.4.0 released with operational improvements

  Apache Hadoop 2.4.0 released with operational improvements : Hadoop 2.4.0 continues that momentum, with additional enhancements to bothHDFS & YARN: Support for Access Control Lists in HDFS Native support for Rolling Upgrades in HDFS Smooth operational upgrades with protocol buffers for HDFS…

• Optimizing Power System Monitoring and Control

  Optimizing power system monitoring and control at a data center can go a long way to helping ensure power reliability – a universal goal of data center management. There are four prevalent sophisticated technologies that can provide key information about the status of onsite power, and Bavesh…

• Weird stacked area map thing

  This chart-map-looking thing from Nightly News is making the rounds, and it's not good. I'm opening the comments below for …

• Your Big Data Is Worthless if You Don't Bring It Into the Real World

  Your Big Data Is Worthless if You Don't Bring It Into the Real World : Building on the (exact) same premise as last week's FT.com article Big data: are we making a big mistake? , Mikkel Krenchel and Christian Madsbjerg write for Wired: Not only did Google Flu Trends largely fail to provide an…