Recent Datacenter News

• Kubernetes Security Hole: Is It a Bug or a Boomerang? A Kubernetes security issue seems to be paraphrasing the old Energizer Bunny commercial: it keeps returning, and returning, and returning.
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  DataBank Atlanta: A Taste of Smart City Projects to Come? How will data centers fit into the smart cities of the future? DataBank provides a preview with its new Atlanta data center, which features a liquid cooled HPC center and will reuse server waste heat and include a microgrid.
• China’s Biggest Startups Ditch Oracle and IBM for Home-Made Tech Meituan, Mobike, Xiaomi, and others are migrating away from Oracle and IBM databases, replacing them with software by PingCAP.
• Next Steps with NVMe: NVMe-MI Storage Management NVMe has matured, and organizations are now turning their attention to NVMe storage management. That’s where NVMe-MI comes in.
• Introducing the Composable Data Center For the first time, IT can create and recreate logical hardware through software. And the benefits are enormous.
• DCF Data Center Executive Roundtable 2Q 2019 Our 15th Data Center Frontier Executive Roundtable features insights from executives from Cyxtera, RagingWire, Iron Mountain, Chatsworth Products, EdgeConneX and Intel DCM.
• Massive Solar-Storage Project Is Planned for the Nevada Desert Combined, three solar projects will produce enough power to supply a city the size of Newark, New Jersey.
• Next Tier Connect Launches, Acquiring Pittsburgh Campus Next Tier Connect is the newest in a series of platform companies targeting opportunities in the data center sector, with an experienced team and an interest in mixed-use properties.
• Equinix Pitches Virtual Networking Devices as Cloud Services DCK Investor Edge: The company continues leveraging its Cloud Exchange Fabric investment to add value beyond real estate.
• SiFive CEO Says RISC-V Servers are 'Five Years Away' Last year he thought smartphones and servers were five and 10 years away, respectively, but he's had to "pull in his targets."
• Google Says It ‘Can Do Better’ in Renewables for Data Centers, Offices The company’s data center lead restates goal of powering operations with local renewables.
• The Role of Network TAPs in Today’s Hybrid Data Center Environment Data centers still play a vital role in prioritizing and distributing operations between directly controlled and outsourced environments.
• Electronic Health Records at 26 Hospitals Hit by Two-Hour Outage Universal Health Services blames "technical issues" at data center provider Cerner for the downtime.
• Google to Spend $1.1 Billion on New Data Centers in Netherlands The expansions would bring its total Netherlands data center investment to 2.5 billion euros.
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  Google’s Kava Looks to Take Data Center Sustainability to the Next Level Google's Joe Kava receives the Infrastructure Masons 2019 Sustainability Champion award, vowing that Google will become even greener, and challenging the entire data center industry to join the effort.
• Top 5 Data Center Stories of the Week: June 23, 2019 For your weekend here are some of the top stories that appeared on DCK this week.
• VMware Launches Secure State for Better Public Cloud Security VMware Secure State is designed to address the need for better visibility, greater speed and more sophisticated threat detection in the public cloud.
• How Edge Computing Implementations Will Change Past Perceptions Major tech companies see edge data centers as a way to protect their entire IT infrastructure.
• How Important Is Location When Choosing a Data Center? A data center can be built anywhere with power and connectivity, but location has an impact on the quality of service it can provide to its customers.
• Staving Off Shark Attacks While Waiting for Concrete to Dry …and other things you worry about when building a hyperscale cloud platform.