Despite Google abandoning MapReduce for its own new hyperscale analytics system, Google capital still believes in the technology and its prospects in the enterprise.

Here's a look at some of the most popular news on Data Center Knowledge this week.

Provider targeting Great Lakes region sees Detroit as an emerging and underserved data center market

Engineering team learns that there still is not an easy way to move from cloud into a data center

How the activist’s open source cred helped save his fundraising site from outages

Two new investors join the round, which brings total size of the anti-Oracle firm's war chest to $115 million

Talks up new series of full-featured enterprise storage arrays, bolsters its software-defined storage ecosystem and plans to broaden portfolio with new converged server and storage appliances

Flash-optimized in-memory NoSQL database SDK and database server now available under open source licenses

Infrastructure chief says the team can now handle real-time traffic at global scale with finesse