• Top 5 Data Center and IT Lessons Learned from the Cloud Giants

  Take advantage of others' lessons learned. Find out the top 5 data center lessons learned from the largest cloud giants. Read More

• Chef Announces Sales and Ecosystem Growth at #ChefConf

  Chef, a leading provider in the mega-scale IT automation sector, which is holding #ChefConf in San Francisco this week, is growing its sales and expanding both its platform and ecosystem. Read More

• Why are you using MySQL?

  Why are you using MySQL? : Mark Callaghan puts out a great explanation of why pitching new databases to large MySQL users will almost always fail: Leaving out quality of service, a simple definition for scalability is thata given workload requires A people, B hardware units and C lines…

• Servers as Radiators: Can a Data Center Heat Stockholm?

  Sweden's Bahnhof are known for creating offbeat data center designs, including a subterranean bunker designed to look like the lair of a James Bond villain.Now the company is talking about recycling the heat generated from the data center to heat surrounding housing. Read More

• EC2 Update - Previous Generation Instances

  We have made some important changes to the EC2 pricing and instance type pages. We are introducing the concept of previous generations of EC2 instances. Amazon EC2 has been around since the summer of 2006. We started with a single...

• Red Hat Summit Focuses on Cloud Integration

  At its annual Red Hat Summit event in San Francisco this week Red Hat (RHT) put the focus on developers, with announcements of integrating cloud, hybrid and Internet of Things using JBoss Fuse 6.1 and JBoss A-MQ 6.1, delivering on the promise of modern middleware, and a success story with IBM in…

• Big Data News: MapR Partners With Databricks

  MapR adds Apache Spark technology to its distribution, TIBCO advances its ActiveMatrix BusinessWorks integration solution, and Cloudera adds resources to its Cloudera Connect Partner Program to provide deeper levels of engagement. Read More

• Virtualization Security: The Goldilocks Zone

  Security is, at its core, an architectural issue, one that may be solvable through the technology at the very center of IT transformation: virtualization, writes Tom Corn of VMware. Read More

• Scalable Atomic Visibility with RAMP Transactions

  Scalable Atomic Visibility with RAMP Transactions : We've developed three new algorithms—called Read Atomic Multi-Partition(RAMP) Transactions—for ensuring atomic visibility in partitioned (sharded)databases: either all of a transaction's updates are observed, or none are. Still digesting…

• Mapping a century of earthquakes

  Earthquakes are in the news a lot lately. A quick search shows a 7.6 off the coast of the Solomon …

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• Westland, Evolve Team on 12 Megawatt Expansion of Houston Bunker

  The Westland Bunker and Evolve Data Center Solutions are teaming to build a second data center for the Westland Campus, an ultra-secure data center campus outside of Houston. Read More