• Pure Storage Buys 100 Patents From IBM to Protect Itself From Lawsuits

  Giving a strategic boost to its intellectual property portfolio, Pure Storage announced it has acquired over 100 storage and related technology patents from IBM and the companies have signed a patent cross-license agreement. Read More

• Red Hat to Acquire French OpenStack Cloud Firm eNovance for €70M

  Red Hat continues its OpenStack push, acquiring french provider eNovance for 50m Euros cash and 20m Euros in shares. Read More

• OctoTales • GREE

  Open source software development practices are growing all over Japan, and one company at the forefront of these efforts is GREE . Their mobile social gaming platform connects 230 million users worldwide, and they've been building it using GitHub Enterprise since 2012. We recently had the…

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• Meet The Agile Admins At Velocity/DevOpsDays Silicon Valley!

  Three of the four agile admins (James, Karthik, and myself) will be out at Velocity and DevOpsDays this week. Say hi if you see us! James will be doing a workshop with Gareth Rushgrove on Tuesday 9-10:30 AM, "Battle-tested Code … Continue reading →

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• China's Milkyway-2 Remains World's Fastest Supercomputer on Top500

  Tianhe-2 tops the list for the third consecutive time, indicating slowing growth in top supercomputer power Read More

• Hacker Games @ LinkedIn

  It's that time of year again -- Intern Hackday returns to LinkedIn! It has come a long way from the very first one in 2011 – we now accommodate hundreds of hackers from around great Bay Area companies, we've moved to a new beautiful space , and the prizes keep getting better. One important…

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• Performance at Scale: SSDs, Silver Bullets, and Serialization

  This is a guest post by Aaron Sullivan , Director & Principal Engineer at Rackspace. We all love a silver bullet. Over the last few years, if I were to split the outcomes that I see with Rackspace customers who start using SSDs, the majority of the outcomes fall under two scenarios. The first…

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• Delivery Notifications for Simple Email Service

  Amazon Simple Email Service (SES) is a simple, scalable, and cost-effective way to send transactional email, marketing messages, and other types of high-quality content. You can connect your application to Amazon SES using the SES SMTP Interface or a full set of APIs . Either way, you will…

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