You don't know what you don't know, according to data center consultant David Boston. "No matter how well the data center is planned, we still find single points of failure in almost all assessments,” he said.
The NSA's massive data center in Utah has been plagued by electrical problems that have delayed the opening of the facility. The Wall Street Journal reports that there have been 10 incidents of arc flash "meltdowns" that have damaged equipment.
ScaleOut Software releases a new edition of its hServer running Hadoop MapReduce, Concurrent partners for big data in the enterprise, and MapR's Hadoop platform helps Xactly enhance its offering.
October has already been a busy month for executive appointments at companies in the data center industry. Here's a review of recent appointments at Active Power, Codero and GoGrid.
BMC launches a big data management solution for Hadoop, Dataguise raises $13 million for expansion, and IBM acquires big data analytics company The Now Factory.
At its annual Worldwide Users' Conference in Las Vegas this week machine data analytics company Splunk advanced its portfolio of products, with a new version of its enterprise edition, a Splunk cloud service, and a free service
On Oct. 15, cloud storage provider Nirvanix will shut its doors, having run dry of funding. That leaves two weeks in which all the many petabytes of data stored on the Nirvanix cloud must find a new home.
Oracle updates its Big Data Appliance for big data in the enterprise, YarcData launches a new Urika analytics software version, MapR turbocharges HBase applications, and Hortonworks and WANdisco make Hadoop non-stop.
