The Week in Review: Open Compute tackles networking, major expansion for Twitter, Equinix opens new Ashburn data center, Iron Mountain expands its ambitions in the data bunker market..
Twitter will expand its data center footprint in Sacramento, Data Center Knowledge reports. The move would help the social network support traffic spikes and a continually growing user base.
Twitter has begun a major expansion of its data center infrastructure, adding space on both coasts in anticipation of huge growth for the microblogging service. That includes a large long-term deal for data center space in Sacramento.
May 8, 2013 -- Syria's Internet has been restored following a massive nation-wide Internet outage that lasted more than 19 hours. This marks the second time the country has seen an Internet blackout in five months, as civil war continues to cripple the country for more than two years. Keep on reading: Syrian Internet Back Online After More Than 19 Hour Outage
May 6, 2013 -- Data center management provider BMC Software announced on Monday it will be acquired by a group of private equity firms led by Bain Capital and Golden Gate Capital, along with GIC Special Investments and Insight Venture Partners, for $6.9 billion.Keep on reading: Private Equity Firms Acquire BMC Software for $6.9 Billion
We’re very excited to be returning to Europe for our second series of WHIR Networking Events across the pond. We hope you will join us in Frankfurt, Amsterdam and London later this month. Frankfurt – Thursday May 23 – Cafe Hauptwache Amsterdam – Tuesday May 28 – Westerliefde London – Thursday May 30 – Concrete [...]Keep on reading: WHIR Networking Events in Europe this month
May 3, 2013 -- Cloud services and data center provider redIT announced on Friday it has opened its new 95,000-square-foot redIT data center in the Tultitlán area of Mexico City.Keep on reading: redIT Opens 95,000 Square Foot Data Center in Mexico City
May 3, 2013 -- Web hosting provider Advanced Internet Technologies announced on Thursday it is now offering colocation space in its Fayetteville, North Carolina data center.Keep on reading: Advanced Internet Technologies Offers Colocation at North Carolina Data Center
April 26, 2013 -- While Amazon is pretty secretive about how much revenue its cloud infrastructure business brings in, a report on Friday by Quartz says the figure is close to $2.4 billion per year.Keep on reading: If AWS Rakes in $2.4B Per Year, What Does it Mean for its Competitors?
April 25, 2013 -- Cloud and hosting provider RackForce announced on Thursday it has launched Virtual Data Center vCloud-E, a new version of its virtual data center services that it says provides higher performance, greater scalability and increased manageability.Keep on reading: RackForce Launches New Version of Virtual Data Center Services
April 9, 2013 -- Web hosting control panel provider cPanel announced on Monday that its cPanel & WHM software version 11.36 has reached the "stable" tier, ensuring the software release has received significant public exposure, testing and verification.Keep on reading: cPanel & WHM Software 11.36 Reaches Stable Tier Status
April 8, 2013 -- Real estate investment group Carter Validus Mission Critical REIT announced on Monday it has acquired a data center in Andover, Massachusetts for $12 million. Keep on reading: Carter Validus Mission Critical REIT Acquires Andover Data Center for $12M
April 4, 2013 -- Infrastructure as a service startup Green Cloud Technologies announced on Thursday it has closed a $5.6 million Series C equity financing round that brings its total funding to date to $9.6 million.
April 1, 2013 -- Every April Fools Day, our email inbox and Google News feed gets flooded with a plethora of web hosting-related press releases. Though some of these announcements tend to be mildly amusing at best, a handful of them can be outright hilarious.Keep on reading: April Fools Day 2013 Web Hosting Round-Up
March 18, 2013 -- Cloud storage application provider Dropbox announced on Friday in a blog post it will acquire email management app startup Mailbox, which will help Dropbox to more rapidly launch its storage app into a new market.Keep on reading: Dropbox Acquires Email App Startup Mailbox to Expand Features
March 18, 2013 -- German telecommunications provider Deutsche Telekom announced on Monday it is launching two new multi-cloud management services for enterprises designed to ensure cloud service redundancy.Keep on reading: Deutsche Telekom to Launch Multi-Cloud Management Services
March 15, 2013 -- Data center operator Equinix announced on Friday it has opened its second International Business Exchangecentre data center in downtown Seattle.Keep on reading: Equinix Opens $60 Million Data Center in Seattle
Social media platforms have evolved into major advertising vehicles for brands, and with attacks on the Twitter accounts of Burger King, Jeep and others, security is a growing concern.
February 11, 2013 -- Web hosting provider Go Daddy announced on Monday at the grand opening of its new SunnyVale, California office that the company has acquired M.dot, a mobile app for small business website creation and management. Keep on reading: Go Daddy Acquires Mobile Website Creator App M.dot
Back in September 2011 we reported that Twitter was leasing a big chunk of space in an enormous data center operated by QTS in Atlanta, with the option to expand as it grows. It looks like the micro-blogging service is growing again.
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