Recent Datacenter News

• Dropbox’s Reverse Migration, From Cloud to Own Data Centers, Five Years On The cloud storage giant has developed a unique approach to data center capacity planning. Here’s how it does it.
• Mirantis Co-Founder Boris Renski Launches Enterprise LTE Network Startup There are no product details so far, but the plan is to leverage the newly opened CBRS spectrum to build 4G LTE wireless solutions and open-source most of the innovation.
• Cloud Giants Fuel Another Data Center Leasing Surge As enterprises shift more workloads to the cloud, cloud providers gobble up more data center space, according to CBRE's latest market report.
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  Aligned Steps Up Renewable Adoption, Matches 100 Percent of IT Load Aligned has matched the entire IT load of its data centers with renewable energy, as part of a holistic sustainability program spanning all parts of its operations.
• VMware Continues Intrinsic Security Push with New Tools VMware Security Product Suite is one of a number of new security products developed to better secure the company's virtualization platform.
• Data Center Operators Vie for Leverage as Europe Eyes Efficiency Rules Commercial providers want regulations that would push enterprises to move out of their old, inefficient data centers.
• Tom Barrack’s Colony Sells RXR Realty Stake to Dyal The REIT has been reshaping its business as it pivots toward digital real estate assets such as data centers.
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  EdgeConneX Sees Growth in New Wave of Edge Applications EdgeConneX is working to enable a new breed of next-generation applications, as seen in recent deployments across Europe for edge cloud specialist Ori Industries.
• You’ve Encrypted Your Data in the Cloud, but are Your Keys Safe? Storing the keys in the same cloud as the data isn’t the safest option, so what are the alternatives?
• F5 Continues to Shape Its Future with New App Security Products F5 delivers products focused on improving four different areas of app security.
• Veeam Availability Suite v10 Simplifies NAS Backup Veeam's overhaul of its cloud data management suite modernizes and simplifies NAS backup, resulting in faster, cheaper backups.
• Chipmakers Sink as Spreading Virus Deepens Supply-Chain Risk Spread of the virus "could start to impact normal travel and functioning of supply chains in PC, Server, handsets, and Memory.”
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  DCF Show: 2020 Trends – Data Tonnage & The AI Arms Race Our 2020 podcast season kicks off with a series of shows based on DCF’s annual forecast, which we call “Eight Trends That Will Shape the Data Center in 2020.”
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  Today and Tomorrow, Sustainable Data Centers Start With Design Phill Lawson-Shanks, CIO  and Sustainability Committee Chair at Aligned Energy hones in on sustainable data centers, and what a "new breed" of data centers focused on energy efficiency will look like. 
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  Alternating Phase PDU as a Solution to Three Power Distribution in Data Centers A new report from Server Technology explores the challenges, solutions and opportunities for three phase power, used in data centers to support high density IT applications, and to minimize the cost of the cables delivering that power.
• Why VMware Bought the Network Monitoring Startup Nyansa The deal bolsters VMware’s position in the growing SD-WAN market and helps its push into AIOps.
• Top 5 Data Center Stories of the Week: February 21, 2020 Here are the biggest things we wrote about this week.
• QTS Says Its Digital Transformation Is Winning It Business DCK Investor Edge: The data center provider claims its investment in new customer tools is starting to pay dividends.
• Google Shuts Down Its Moonshot Wind Energy Unit Makani “Despite strong technical progress, the road to commercialization is longer and riskier than hoped..."
• CyrusOne CEO Gary Wojtaszek Has Resigned While growing, the company, grappling with slow hyperscale demand, has taken a beating in the stock market.