Recent Datacenter News

• Top 5 Data Center Stories of the Week: August 16, 2019 For your weekend reading, here are some of the biggest things we wrote about this week.
• Microsoft Makes More Machine Learning Advances It's clear that enterprises are interested in making artificial intelligence and machine learning advances, but what's less obvious is how they can do so effectively.
• CyrusOne Explores a Sale After Bidder Approach A bidder group including KKR, Stonepeak, and I Squared Capital is said to be in preliminary stages of weighing a bid for the company. Others interested too.
• CyrusOne Shares Jump Amid Takeover Rumors Shares of data center developer CyrusOne jumped Friday following media reports that the company has received takeover interest from private investors.
• Leveraging SD-WAN for End-to-End Multi-cloud Management Much like multi-cloud, SD-WAN is an operational transformation, though starting from the edges.
• GIC Strikes (a Hyperscale Data Center Deal) Again The Singapore sovereign fund is on a data center investment roll. Its latest deal is with GDS for cloud sites in China.
• VMware and Pivotal are Talking Acquisition; Pivotal’s Stock Skyrockets The talks appear to be in advanced stages, VMware currently offering $15 per share
• Cisco Shares Sink on Lackluster Revenue Forecast Its guidance indicates the trade war is leading customers to delay network upgrades.
• Dell Joins AT&T to Move Edge Data Centers Wherever They Should Be An extended partnership for Airship, which combines Kubernetes and OpenStack, could bring edge computing closer to the enterprise after all.
• Virtual Instruments Buys Metricly to Marry IT Ops in the Data Center to DevOps in the Cloud As enterprises build hybrid infrastructure, monitoring vendors rush to help them manage it.
• Edge Computing: AT&T Says the Edge Isn’t Where You Think It Is As telcos race to 5G, one of the top ones questions feasibility – and utility – of edge computing at cell towers.
• Black Hat 2019: Investment, Interest in AI for Security Ramps Up An emphasis on AI was clear at this year’s Black Hat event in Las Vegas, where several vendors were promoting platforms that leverage AI and machine learning capabilities to address threat detection.
• Hardware Manufacturers Shift Away From China Despite Trump Tariff Delay OEMs Inventec and Quanta moving production to Taiwan; Foxconn signals it can make a similar move but hasn't yet
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  Data Center Jobs: New Positions in Northern Virginia The August data center job spotlight from Data Center Frontier, in partnership with Pkaza Critical Facilities Recruiting, includes three new positions in Northern Virginia, including a data center facility operations director position.
• Black Hat 2019: The Promise of 5G Also Brings Security Concerns While several large cities in the US are rolling out 5G networks, before we get to a world with the widespread use of 5G, a lot obviously needs to be worked out with the security around it too. Hailed initially as an ultra-secure protocol, one session at Black Hat proved that to be far from true.
• Alibaba, Tencent Hope to Show Comeback in Earnings After Sell-Off In the three months of brutal selloff, spurred by the trade war, China's two largest companies lost a combined $140 billion in market value.
• BGP Hijackings Take on New Meaning in Cybersecurity Climate The Border Gateway Protocol is vulnerable to malicious actors -- and as of right now, little can be done about it from a security perspective, although there have been attempts to make it more reliable. Despite the apparent risk, last week's Black Hat and Def Con events didn't have one session that mentioned BGP hijackings.
• What’s the Best Computing Infrastructure for AI? Charlie Boyle, the man in charge of Nvidia’s AI supercomputer line, on AI hardware and data centers today and in the future.
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  Companies see Silicon Valley Data Center Space as ‘Strategic Imperative’ Silicon Valley has seen consistent activity from large data center users and colocation/cloud operators over the last five years. This post from a new Special Report explores the history and market position of Silicon Valley in the data center market, and why Silicon Valley data center space is top of mind for today's enterprises.
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  Utilizing Aggregation to Grow Network Visibility & Long-Term ROI Networks continue to grow. And as enterprises need to monitor an expanding number of network segments, or a large distributed network, challenges have arisen. According to a new report from Garland Technology, what these enterprises need is aggregation — which helps institutions secure and monitor their network.