• Report: Microsoft Paid Six-Times the Price of Iowa Land for Data Center Expansion

  As farm land, the property is worth a lot less, but the premium is normal for a data center site. Read More

• Docker Sells dotCloud PaaS Business to German Provider

  Going all-in on its app-container business, Docker promises smooth transition to PaaS customers Read More

• Report: CIA's Amazon Private Cloud Now Online

  U.S. intelligence community now has its own private cloud, managed by AWS. Read More

• Tumblr: Hashing Your Way to Handling 23,000 Blog Requests per Second

  This is a guest post by  Michael Schenck , SRE Staff Engineer at Tumblr. At Tumblr, blogs (or Tumblelog) are one of our most highly trafficked faces on the internet.  One of the most convenient aspects of tumblelogs is their highly cacheable nature, which is fantastic because of the high…

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• Google Doodle Venn diagram

  In celebration of John Venn's 180th birthday, today's Google Doodle produces a Venn diagram with the two O's in Google's …

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• AWS Week in Review - July 28, 2014

  Let's take a quick look at what happened in AWS-land last week: Monday, July 28 The AWS Big Data Blog talked about Best Practices for High-Frequency Loading on Amazon Redshift . Tuesday, July 29 We announced New…