Equinix Is Productizing Flash Trading Computing Architecture


In his new book, Flash Boys, Michael Lewis directs his gleeful analytic spotlight on flash trading. True to form, Lewis tells a heroic story, in this case about how a team from Royal Bank of Canada...

Why Facebook, eBay Measure Power And Water Consumption In Their Data Centers


Cloud services companies like Facebook and eBay have a vested interest in making their data centers as energy-efficient and water-efficient as possible, not just because it makes for a good public...

Game On – Pivotal Announces the Cloud Foundry Foundation


Open source PaaS initiative Cloud Foundry (disclosure, I’m an adviser to ActiveState, a contributor to Cloud Foundry via their acquisition last year of Appsecute) is undeniably gaining the majority...