• NVIDIA GRID Technology Adds Speed to VMware's Desktop Virtualization

  A new partnership between virtualization software provider VMware and graphics card maker NVIDIA is poised to deliver graphics-rich experiences to more virtual desktop or "Desktop-as-a-Service" environments. Read More

• Mike Manos Moves From AOL to First Data

  Mike Manos has departed AOL and is now the chief technology officer at payment technology specialist First Data, where he will be responsible for the company's global technology infrastructure. Read More

• Facebook Provides A Peek at Progress In Altoona

  Facebook revealed some aerial photos as well as a peek inside the data hall in its new, 100 percent wind-powered data center in Altoona, Iowa. Read More

• Fusion-io Flash-Aware Compression Boosts Capacity for MySQL

  The new flash aware NVM Compression Interface from Fusion-io doubles the capacity of ioMemory flash and boosts performance for Percona Server and Oracle's MySQL and MariaDB databases. Read More

• Big data, same statistical challenges

  Tim Harford for Financial Times on big data and how the same problems for small data still apply: The multiple-comparisons …