• Friday Funny: "Checking It Twice" Cartoon

  Well, folks, it's finally Friday. And we on the East Coast of the States are celebrating spring's arrival. Let's take a moment from our happy dance, and have our cartoon contest. Read More

• AppDirect Raises $35 Million, IBM Acquires Silverpop

  Cloud services brokerage company AppDirect raises $35 million to continue its rapid growth in the market, IBM adds to its enterprise marketing portfolio by acquiring Silverpop, and Amazon Web Services launches the next generation of EC2 Memory-optimized instances. Read More

• ViaWest Opens Doors at Minnesota Data Center

  Colocation and managed services provider ViaWest broke out the giant scissors this week as it opened the doors on its newest data center in the Minneapolis market in Chaska, Minnesota. Read More

• Apigee Launches Predictive Big Data Analytics Platform

  Enabling enterprises to apply sophisticated analytics on fine-grained data and then proactively act on those insights, Apigee launched a major new version of its Insights big data analytics platform Read More

• The Opportunities and Challenges of Long-term Data and Large-Scale Analytics

  The secret to realizing the opportunities of petabyte-scale storage, and to overcoming its challenges, is to evolve from storing all data in the same way to storing different kinds of data in different ways, writes Jeff Flowers of SageCloud. Read More