Recent Datacenter News

• Figure Hyper-V Live Migration into Virtual Fibre Channel Decisions Hyper-V Live Migration plays a big role when configuring VMs to use virtual Fibre Channel.
• Going Public, Vertiv Expects to Pay Down Debt, Eyes Acquisitions A merger deal would see Vertiv go public again and fuel its next stage of growth.
• How Enterprises Could One Day Use Their Data Centers to Be Their Own 5G Providers A demo shows feasibility of 5G and LTE edge with containers, Kubernetes, and no NFV.
• Ex-Apple Exec Who Started Data Center Chip Firm Says He Was Snooped On Nuvia founder claims Apple reviewed his confidential text messages before suing him for launching his own startup.
• Data Center Podcasts: What We’re Listening To Looking for good audio content on data centers? There's a growing number of quality data center podcasts. Here's a curated list of podcasts worth a listen.
• Amazon Cites Trump Bias at ‘Enemy’ Bezos in Cloud Deal Loss AWS claims in a lawsuit that DOD ignored its superior tech and gave the contract to Microsoft despite its "key failures" to comply with JEDI requirements.
• Dicom Systems, Google Cloud Team on Secure Medical Imaging Storage Combining Dicom Systems imaging technology with Google Cloud Platform gives healthcare organizations a HIPAA-compliant medical imaging storage solution with a focus on disaster recovery.
• Why Bitcoin Mining Is Being Touted as a Solution to Gas Flaring A Denver-based company powers data centers using excess natural gas typically burned off at shale drilling sites.
• How to Measure Your Cloud Success in Kilowatts A Gartner analyst suggests kilowatts can be “the perfect progress metric” for implementation of an enterprise cloud strategy.
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  Modular Data Centers as a Potential Strategy to ‘Future Proof’ Facilities The speed of disruption and the current data surge cycle continues to demand transformation in the data center industry. The response to these demands bring prefabricated modular (PFM) data centers to the arena - delivering low-risk, high-value implementations with the added benefits of faster delivery and easier on-site assembly. Download the new white paper from Vertiv provides clarity on the specific benefits that PFM data centers can offer to the future of the data center industry. 
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  How Automation is the Precursor to AI in the Data Center A guest article from CoreSite asserts automation is shifting data centers from reactive to preventative on the way to predictive. Brenda Van der Steen, VP of Marketing at CoreSite, explores how automation acts as not only a precursor to artificial intelligence, but a crucial "step in the journey."
• DATA4 invests more than €200 million to expand data center network in Southern Europe Geography is central to the operator’s aggressive European expansion, with the development of its campus in Paris and Italy and the opening of a fourth campus in Spain in 2020, equalling to 5 datacenters under construction.
• Top 5 Data Center Stories of the Week: December 8, 2019 Catch up on the week's biggest stories in the data center industry.
• SBA Adds Chicago Data Center, as Tower REITs Explore Edge Options SBA Communications' acquisition of a Chicago interconnection facility is the latest move by tower-focused real estate investment trusts (REITs) to establish a beachhead in the data center world.
• CyrusOne Confirms Ransomware Attack, Says Six Customers Affected The attack was limited to its managed services business in a single New York data center, the company said.
• A Crash Course in Persistent Kubernetes Storage To achieve persistent Kubernetes storage, there are two high-level tasks that must be performed.
• Amazon Faces Widening US Antitrust Scrutiny in Cloud Business FTC investigators are said to have been asking software companies about practices around AWS.
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  3 Questions to Ask Your Data Center About Environmental and Social Responsibility It’s a fact we know all too well. Data centers consume a lot of power – and demand is only growing. In a world rightly concerned about climate change, growing energy requirements can be a liability. Kevin Hagen of Iron Mountain explains how asking the right questions of your data center provider can turn a potential sustainability liability into an opportunity.
• ‘Big 3’ Public Cloud Providers: 4 Reasons Not to Use Them There are lots of reasons to use smaller public cloud providers or a combination of public clouds.
• Setting Realistic Goals for Powering Data Centers With Renewable Energy Why 20-percent-renewable by 2025 is achievable, and how we can get there.