Top 5 Data Center Stories, Week of July 3rd

For your weekend reading, we present a recap of five noteworthy stories that appeared on Data Center Knowledge this past week.

Google Replaces MapReduce With New Hyper-Scale Cloud Analytics System – >
Some Data Center Downtime Causes are Unpredictable: 10 Strangest Ones – >
Microsoft Kicks Off $350M Data Center Expansion in Virginia | Data Center Knowledge – >
Microsoft General Counsel Calls for NSA Surveillance Reform – >
Microsoft Azure Cloud’s Brazil South Region Goes Live | Data Center Knowledge – >
Microsoft Apologizes, Details Exchange Outage – >
IBM SoftLayer Cloud Expands With London Data Center – >
Microsoft Gets $5M to Study Fuel Cells and Disrupt Data Center Power – >
Amazon Cloud Servers Now Come in Tiny but Burstable Sizes – >
Joyent: SmartDataCenter is Better Cloud for Enterprise than OpenStack – >