There's been lots of action in Minneapolis this year. Now ViaWest announces its intentions to build a 150,000 square foot facility there with an expected opening of Q1 2014.
Cloudscaling has raised a new $10 million, Series B round of funding. The company provides an OpenStack-powered cloud infrastructure system. The funding comes from Trinity Ventures and two new big name investors: Juniper Networks and Seagate.
The Windows Azure Cloud is expanding its footprint in the Asia-Pacific Region. Microsoft is building a new data center in Singapore, with a facility expected online in 2014, the company has confirmed. Microsoft also announced two new data center sites in Australia.
More and more service providers are looking at Tier Certification from Uptime Institute. The once predominantly enterprise data center focused group has expanded its offerings and appeal to the multi-tenant provider world.
There's a major data center project brewing in Delaware, with a group called The Data Centers (TDC) planning a data center near Newark.The massive project will also feature a large on-site energy component. and draw no electricity from the utility grid.
Microsoft's Quincy campus is not only the heart of its data center strategy, it shows how the data center industry at large will evolve thanks to thinking around designing for cloud
Colcoation provider AlteredScale has opened its doors at 601 Polk In Chicago. The building, which has been around for over a century, is right in the heart of a central business district often strapped for space.
CyrusOne introduced its National Internet Exchange (IX), an on-net platform deployed across CyrusOne facilities in Texas and Arizona. The platform enables high-performance, low cost data transfer and accessibility for customers, uniting 12 CyrusOne sites in Dallas, Houston, Austin, San Antonio, and...
Data center and managed service provider QTS (Quality Technology Services) announced its credit facility has increased to $575 million, which will fund the company's growth.
As the Windows Azure cloud expands across central Washington, the physical building has all but disappeared. Lightweight enclosures filled with servers, known as ITPACs, sit under the barest of skeleton of a facility. They are self-contained data centers, assembled in days, housed on a concrete slabs and attached to a power “spine” supplying connections to the grid and the Internet. It’s completely open to the air, and in production.
IO has signed up TMI as its exclusive distributor in Singapore, Malaysia, and Brunei. The partnership expands IO's goal to spread its modular designs worldwide and shows a growing interest in its Data Center 2.0 products.
Digital Realty Trust (DLR), the world's largest data center developer, has entered into the DCIM market with the launch of its EnVision software tool to provide data on IT operations and capacity for its wholesale data center customers.
BMC will be acquired for $46.25 per share in cash, or approximately $6.9 billion. Data center management is hot, and investors are picking up on the trend.
Dell has acquired Enstratius (previously known as Enstratus), a provider of enterprise cloud-management software and services provider that delivers single and multi-tenant cloud management capabilities. The acquisition brings much needed multi-cloud management capabilities into the Dell fold, as...
The company held a grand opening and ribbon cutting for its continuous transformational environment (CTE) lab at its Richmond data center, where it hopes to advance federal cloud technologies going forward.
A keynote panel at this week's Data Center World conference showcased two stories of Superstorm Sandy's impact: one from the Jersey Shore at the heart of the damage, another from Philadelphia. Both experiences contained lessons for data center managers.
David Shaw of IO has been named the Data Center Manager of the Year Award by AFCOM, the leading association for data center managers. Shaw, the Senior Vice President of IO, was honored Wednesday night in an awards ceremony at Data Center World in Las Vegas.
The Bring Your Own Device movement of adopting consumer technology can be of great benefit for an IT organization, according to health care provider UPMC, which outlined its efforts at Data Center World.
We are now in an era of centralization, Microsoft Director of Energy Strategy Brian Janous said yesterday in his keynote address at Data Center World Spring 2013 at the Mandalay Bay, drawing many parellels between the data center and energy industries at
Microsoft is looking deeply into energy efficiency and insists that that its gaze must encompass the entire system - not just on a the level of the data center, but scrutinizing what it takes to create a unit of content.
Just how easy is it to move workloads around in the cloud? A new report from he Open Data Center Alliance (ODCA) looks at hypervisor interoperability – just how easy it to move a virtual machine from one hypervisor to another.
Enterprise cloud usage has begun to hit a point of maturity, and there’s increasing preference for a multi-cloud approach, according to a survey from cloud management provider RightScale.
The Houston campus for CyrusOne just grew significantly. The colocation provider has purchased 32 acres adjacent to its Houston West facility, increasing the size to a total of more than 45 acres. The campus targets the sizeable oil and gas industry, touting itself as the largest multi-tenant digital energy campus in the country for seismic exploration computing. CyrusOne has finely tuned high-density server environments catering specifically for the industry, accommodating up to 1,000 watts per square foot and higher for these compute-intensive jobs.
In a world with increased hybrid infrastructure usage, Internap looks to make it all manageable and visible under one portal. The company calls it "Cloudy Colo" and it has rolled out a unified dashboard in LA, Santa Clara and Dallas data centers.
