• Location, Reliability and Service: Finding Your Colocation Provider

  Want to choose the right colo partner? Look at location, reliability and service! Read More

• Databricks Unveils Spark as a Cloud Service

  Spark creators raise $33M Series B and go toe-to-toe with Google's latest cloud analytics service Read More

• German Internet Exchange Operator Moves into Sabey's Manhattan Tower

  DE-CIX, operator of the world's largest Internet exchange point in Frankfurt, is expanding into Sabey's skyscraper data center in downtown Manhattan. The 32-story Intergate.Manhattan will be the eighth data center in the New York metro to host a Point of Presence for DE-CIX, which has been…

• Cooling Trends: Cost-Cutting Opportunities

  The latest technology advances and best practices are changing the cooling practices and approaches in the data center, writes Jeff Klaus of Intel Corporation. Read More

• CliQr Moves Your Enterprise Apps into the Cloud so You Don't Have To

  Google Ventures-backed startup by former VMware vCenter engineers automates cloud infrastructure provisioning and app deployment Read More

• SQL-on-Hadoop: Pivotal HAWQ benchmark.

  SQL-on-Hadoop: Pivotal HAWQ benchmark. : The results bore out Pivotal's statement that HAWQ is the world's fastestSQL query engine on Hadoop […] The paper, titled "Orca: A Modular Query Optimizer Architecture for BigData," includes benchmark results based on the TPC-DS, a…