Recent Datacenter News

• Top 5 Data Center Stories of the Week: March 27, 2020 Zoom, Netflix, and Dropbox cope with traffic increases, UK data center operators seek "critical" status for contractors, and more.
• UK Data Centers Plead for Critical Status for Contractors as Coronavirus Takes Hold British government has designated data center operators as critical but not their heavily relied upon third-party contractors.
• Form Jacking: Why Your IT Shop Needs to Take It Seriously Some exploits receive little press but can have big consequences. Form jacking is one of these exploits. Here's what you need to know.
• Hard-Knock Life Gets Harder in Venezuela With Internet Near Bust Movistar said the surge in data use during Venezuelans’ first week of sheltering in place was equal to the entire jump for all of 2019.
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  The IoT Extends to Space: Satellite Startups Connect Remote Devices More than 20 new companies are using constellations of low-cost low-flying “nanosatellites” to collect data from devices, pursuing a future in which space-based networks connect the Internet of Things (IoT).
• Array Configuration Belongs on Disaster Recovery Planning Checklist Storage array configuration can be as critical as the data on the array. Make backup part of your disaster recovery planning checklist.
• Google’s YouTube, Classroom Software Hit by Partial Outages The internet giant’s infrastructure is experiencing record usage due to the coronavirus pandemic.
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  Powering AI in the Enterprise Gerry Fassig, Vice President, Sales, at CoreSite, explores how best to power AI and machine learning across a variety 0f industries and sectors through data and processing power. 
• How Zoom, Netflix, and Dropbox are Staying Online During the Pandemic Inside the efforts to keep the quarantined world’s popular internet services running smoothly.
• See How Internet Traffic Has Shifted in Big Metros During the Lockdown Traffic, predictably, has shifted away from city centers and out into the suburbs.
• TierPoint Lines Up $320 Million in Equity Funding from Investor Group Three global infrastructure funds will invest $320 million in Tierpoint, a regional data center provider that has built a national network through a series of acquisitions.
• The Promise of Intelligent Cybersecurity Is Starting to Come True, Slowly Next-gen SIEMs, sandboxing, honeypots, penetration testing, and zero-trust are all now better because of new intelligence capabilities.
• How Fastly Is Looking to Define Edge Cloud Tyler McMullen, CTO of Fastly, shares his views on edge cloud computing and where the technology fits within the broader cloud landscape.
• Intel Suspends Stock Buybacks Amid Covid-19 Pandemic The chipmaker joins a growing list of businesses pausing buybacks as economic activity slows and stockpiling cash becomes the priority.
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  As Traffic Surges, Akamai Will Shift Gaming Downloads to Off-Peak Hours To keep data networks running smoothly during the COVID-19 crisis, content delivery specialist Akamai is reducing the network resources used for gaming downloads during peak business hours.
• Argo, Wafra, Macquarie Invest in Data Center Provider TierPoint Infrastructure, including digital infrastructure, is one of the few sectors that’s been keeping dealmakers busy amid the coronavirus pandemic.
• Just How Much Energy Will Edge Data Centers Consume? An estimate says data centers, including edge sites, will soon use four times the energy all data centers used in 2018. Can it be true?
• No Culture Clash in the Marriage of IBM and Red Hat It's been nearly nine months since the marriage between IBM and Red Hat was finalized. We decided to check in and see how the newlyweds are getting along.
• YouTube to Limit Video Quality Around the World for a Month Standard definition will be default; users will be able to watch in high definition but will have to choose to do so.
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  Real-Time Business, Data Centers & the Colocation Solution In a new special report, CoreSite and Data Center Frontier take a look at how colocation can be the "nervous system" of today's modern digital businesses. This entry in a special report series highlights the pace of real-time business.