Recent Datacenter News

• Analysts: There are Now More than 500 Hyperscale Data Centers in the World It took two years to build more than 100 massive server farms, but the rate is accelerating.
• VMware’s Joe Beda: Enterprise Open Source Is Growing One of the fathers of Kubernetes says enterprise customers see the most benefit from the community-driven approach because their users get the opportunity to influence the direction development takes.
• John Chambers' MPLS Dream Team Behind Pensando Startup The former Cisco CEO has reunited with the data center tech startup wizards, and they all seem ready to duke it out for a chunk of AWS's Nitro business.
• Stack Buys Real Estate in Ballooning Ohio Hyperscale Data Center Cluster Buys existing facility and land for construction near AWS data center, future Facebook, Google campuses
• Bank of America’s Cloud Expansion Could ‘Save a Ton of Money,’ CEO Says "...discrete data centers and resources to internal cloud, save a ton of money, then use that power to actually negotiate with third parties.”
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  Hyperscale Needs an Edge, Too Cloud, social, SaaS and mobile companies will benefit from strategic, proximity-based edge computing infrastructure. Phillip Marangella of EdgeConneX explores the factors guiding hyperscale demand at the edge.
• IBM Misses Estimates as Red Hat Fails to Offset Declines Long-awaited Rad Hat revenue infusion fails to compensate for continued declines in other parts of the business.
• Girls Who Code Gets $25K Boost, Cloud Access from IBM At the first All Things Open event since Red Hat became a wholly owned IBM subsidiary, the company debuted an Open Source Community Grant that mixes cash and access to the IBM cloud.
• Is Cloud AI a Fad? The Shortcomings of Cloud Artificial Intelligence Cloud artificial intelligence presents some challenges that other cloud-based offerings do not.
• STACK Infrastructure Acquires Data Center in Ohio Cloud Cluster STACK Infrastructure has acquired a data center in New Albany, Ohio, the company said today. The deal highlights the strategic importance of Ohio as a destination for cloud data centers.
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  Exploring the Lithium-Ion Battery as a Potential Replacement for Lead-Acid Lead-acid batteries have been the go-to for default backup power for uninterruptible power supplies (UPS). But the tides may be turning with the growing popularity of lithion-ion batteries.  A new report from Vertiv explores how the  lithium-ion battery has reached a stage of maturity that is can be considered as a viable replacement for the lead-acid battery in UPS applications.
• Data Center Jobs: International Leadership Opportunities October's top data center jobs on Data Center Frontier feature two international opportunities ‚ — one in Singapore, and one in Montreal — as well as two data center facility manager positions on the West coast.
• South African IT Services Firm EOH Plans Further 1B Rand in Asset Sales CEO says will structure operations into three units, sell assets that don’t fit revised set up
• Foxconn’s Shifting Wisconsin Plans Now Include Data Center and Glass Dome After having scaled back its manufacturing facility plans, the Taiwanese giant plans to add computing and NOC buildings.
• Tons of Data Center Businesses on the Market. Not All Will Sell Sector growth and maturity are fueling an M&A frenzy but often also unrealistic valuations.
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  Equinix: Enterprises Will Drive Huge Growth in Interconnection Data Traffic In the next 5 years there will be a meteoric rise in data traffic flowing through network intersections, according to a new report from Equinix. That means data centers will become even more pivotal to the digital economy.
• CoreSite Opens New Campus in Northern Virginia CoreSite has officially opened its new data center campus in Reston, Virginia, providing the company with additional capacity in Northern Virginia
• Sophos Becomes Latest U.K. Tech Target in $3.8 Billion Deal The deal would be among the largest take-privates in the U.K. technology industry in recent years and marks the latest firm snapped up by a foreign buyer.
• Schneider and HPE Throw Their Weight Behind Data Center Liquid Cooling Two major data center vendors enter separate partnerships around liquid cooling solutions.
• Cymulate’s Advanced Persistent Threat Tool Simulates Kill Chains By simulating full kill chain attacks, the advanced persistent threat solution enables organizations to test for and fix gaps in security defenses.