http://techcrunch.com – Yammer competitor Jostle.me has raised $3.1 million from a group of angel investors. The company has raised $4.6 million to date, all from private individuals. It has 52 shareholders, including most employees who work for the company and its directors. Jostle sells a cloud-based enterprise platform that uses photos of the people in the organization as the foundation for the service. (IT news)

http://www.zdnet.com – AMD is the first to unveil its Open Compute Project "open source" motherboard. Called the Open 3.0, the board is suitable for cloud server, storage servers, and high-performance computing clusters. (General)

http://www.thevarguy.com – Juniper Networks (NYSE: JNPR) is set to promote its software-defined networking (SDN) strategy at the company’s Global Partner Conference this week in Las Vegas. But can Juniper CEO Kevin Johnson and his lieutenants stand out from SDN moves by Cisco Systems (NASDAQ: CSCO), VMware (NYSE: VMW), Brocade Networks (NASDAQ: BRCD) and more? (IT news)

http://www.thevarguy.com – When Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) killed Windows Small Business Server  SBS) in 2012, some partners started seeking alternatives and replacements. Eager to fill the void, Canonical, Zarafa and Zentyal have been promoting an Ubuntu small business server to channel partners — including managed services providers (MSPs). (IT news)

http://techcrunch.com – Video conferencing is fast becoming a popular tool for communications among a growing number of businesses. But few want to invest the money in deploying the hardware necessary to make enterprise-class video conferencing and collaboration. (IT news)