• Greater Chicago & Midwest Data Center Summit

  June 12: Chicago Read More

• DevCenter 1.1.0 adds support for Apache Cassandra 2.0 and DataStax Enterprise 4.0

  It took us quite a bit longer to get here, but now we're ready to share a new version of DevCenter which comes with a couple of most requested features and UI changes, lots of code assist and validation improvements, and some major backend changes.

• NSA Data Center's Water Use Pattern Indicates Economization

  The National Security Agency's Utah data center using much less water than the U.S. spy agency pays for most likely indicates that the facility is not running at full capacity and that it is taking advantage of economization. Read More

• Using Twitter to measure earthquake impact in almost real-time

  At Twitter, we know that Tweets can sometimes travel as fast as an earthquake. We were curious to know just how accurate such a correlation might be, so we collaborated with Stanford researchers to model how Tweets can help create more accurate ShakeMaps, which provide near-real-time maps of ground…

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• Data Center Jobs: ViaWest

  At the Data Center Jobs Board, we have a new job listing from ViaWest. Read More

• Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability For May 2nd, 2014

  Hey, it's HighScalability time: Google's new POWER8 server motherboard 1 trillion : number of scents your nose can smell; millions of square feet : sprawling new server farms Quotable Quotes: …

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