External Data Center News

The latest industry news from external feeds


Sunday, May 19th


Sun, 5/19/13 @ 22:39 - From Computer World

Samsung will host a US$800,000 contest for developers that build apps for the Galaxy S4 using the company's peer-to-peer software interface.

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Sun, 5/19/13 @ 12:26 - From Computer World

Yahoo's board of directors has approved spending $1.1 billion in cash to buy popular blogging site Tumblr, according to The Wall Street Journal.

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Saturday, May 18th


Sat, 5/18/13 @ 06:54 - From Data Center Knowledge

The Week in Review: Digital Realty enters the DCIM market, inside Microsoft's Quincy campus, data center management goes virtual, another major data center for the New York region.

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Friday, May 17th


Fri, 5/17/13 @ 15:06 - From Computer World

Yahoo has called a mystery press event in New York City on Monday afternoon, hot on the heels of rumors that it plans to buy Tumblr for US$1 billion.

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Fri, 5/17/13 @ 11:29 - From Data Center Knowledge

Ready or not, virtual reality is coming to the data center. IO this week demonstrated a new application that provides a 3D visual representation of a customer's data center environment, allowing them to "walk through" their data center.

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Fri, 5/17/13 @ 11:59 - From Data Center Knowledge

It's data center trade show season. Compass Data Centers CEO Chris Crosby offers an entertaining reflection on trade show expo hall goodies at the Compass Points blog.

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Fri, 5/17/13 @ 08:05 - From Data Center Knowledge

It’s Friday so it's time for Data Center Knowledge caption contest! This week: Kip and Gary take "green lighting" to new heights. Submit your captions now!

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Fri, 5/17/13 @ 06:43 - From Data Center Knowledge

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.

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Fri, 5/17/13 @ 05:19 - From Data Center Knowledge

At the Data Center Jobs Board, we have a new job listing from RagingWire Data Centers, which is seeking a Sr. National Account Manager (Sales Hunter) in San Francisco, California

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Fri, 5/17/13 @ 00:03 - From Computer World

Employees at the Chinese factories of Apple supplier Foxconn continue to work beyond the country's legal limit of 49 hours a month, according to a report from the Fair Labor Association (FLA). But the Taiwanese manufacturer is making overall steady progress in improving the working conditions at a select group of factories in China, it said.

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Thursday, May 16th


Thu, 5/16/13 @ 18:12 - From Computer World

An appeals court in Mexico has overturned an approximately US$2.7 billion judgment against Yahoo and Yahoo Mexico in a breach-of-contract suit concerning online directories.

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Thu, 5/16/13 @ 15:13 - From Computer World

Hoping to entice more enterprises to use the R statistical programming language directly within their predictive modeling and data visualization jobs, Tibco has released a free version of its R runtime engine.

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Thu, 5/16/13 @ 12:55 - From Computer World

A data center in Sweden has cut its energy bills by a million dollars a year using seawater to cool its servers, though jellyfish are an occasional hazard.

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Thu, 5/16/13 @ 11:14 - From Data Center Knowledge

Cloud service provider Latisys is offering disaster recovery as a monthly service (or DRaaS). The portfolio of DRaaS solutions ranges from simple offsite data backup to near-instantaneous continuous availability (geoclustering) services.

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Thu, 5/16/13 @ 11:24 - From Data Center Knowledge

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...

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Thu, 5/16/13 @ 09:05 - From Data Center Knowledge

One of the design issues facing data center operators is the projected life cycle of the facility, writes Julius Neudorfer. The data center is evolving at a much faster pace over the last several years especially when compared to the past 35 years.

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Thu, 5/16/13 @ 08:00 - From Data Center Knowledge

PernixData advances its software-defined storage platform with a $20 million funding round, Oxford Press increases its SAP performance by 30 percent with Violin Memory Flash arrays, and HP adds Asetek liquid cooling to single processor Z820 workstations.

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Thu, 5/16/13 @ 08:29 - From Data Center Knowledge

An ambitious project at the University of Chicago aims to lead the nation in biomedical computation, by making the region the largest hub in the world for genetic and medical information. At the forefront of the effort is Bionimbus, an open source cloud-based system for managing, analyzing and...

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Thu, 5/16/13 @ 07:50 - From Network World

Google is facing some tough questions from Congress over the privacy concerns raised by Glass, its fledgling augmented reality system for recording and receiving information on the fly. But on the ground at the company's I/O conference for developers, attendees are largely enthusiastic about the technology.

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Thu, 5/16/13 @ 07:57 - From Data Center Knowledge

A key element for ensuring responsiveness in NOC and CCC’s is to give operators the ability to see clearly and in real-time what is occurring in the systems they are managing or using, writes Simon Clew of Adder Technology.

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Thu, 5/16/13 @ 07:00 - From Data Center Knowledge

Cyan announces that GlobalConnect will deploy 400G network across Denmark using its Blue Planet software-defined networking solution. Also, news from Juniper, Yahoo Japan, EdgeCast and TeliaSonera.

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Thu, 5/16/13 @ 06:44 - From Computer World

Spiceworks has teamed up with Fiberlink to add mobile device management functionality to the next version of its free network and IT management software.

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Thu, 5/16/13 @ 06:01 - From Computer World

Dell intends to move workstations into the data center and then serve up intense multimedia and engineering applications to remote users over the cloud or in virtualized environments via thin clients.

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Thu, 5/16/13 @ 06:51 - From Computer World

Embedded YouTube videos don't infringe copyright under current German law, but they could violate European rules, the German Federal Court of Justice said on Thursday.

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Thu, 5/16/13 @ 05:30 - From Data Center Knowledge

Mellanox (MLNX) hopes to enhance its competiveness and its position as a leading provider of high-performance, end-to-end interconnect solutions in a $87 million acquisition of Kotura, who develops advanced silicon photonics optical interconnect technology.

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Thu, 5/16/13 @ 05:00 - From Data Center Knowledge

The cloud file-sharing service Box has been boosting Accelerator, its global data transfer network, in a bid to make its global enterprise customer base happy. Further infrastructure expansion lies ahead.

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Thu, 5/16/13 @ 04:30 - From Data Center Knowledge

HostingCon, which will kickoff in Austin June 17, draws a large number of individuals from the web hosting and cloud services community each year. And this year's event looks to be equally as action-packed.

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Thu, 5/16/13 @ 03:28 - From Network World

Dell reported another quarter of declining profits and revenue Thursday as CEO Michael Dell continues his fight to take the company private.

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Thu, 5/16/13 @ 03:01 - From Computer World

A Japanese government institute has warned that satellite transmissions, GPS readings, and power lines could be affected over the next two weeks if a recent spate of solar flares continues.

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Thu, 5/16/13 @ 00:55 - From Network World

A data center in Sweden has cut its energy bills by a million dollars a year using seawater to cool its servers, though jellyfish are an occasional hazard.

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Wednesday, May 15th


Wed, 5/15/13 @ 16:15 - From Computer World

Data-center and wireless sales led growth at Cisco Systems in its fiscal third quarter, as it saw customers spending more in the U.S. and developing countries but reported continuing weakness in Southern Europe.

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Wed, 5/15/13 @ 13:16 - From Data Center Knowledge

Which new technologies will genuinely gain traction in the data center industry? 451 Research sees Flash storage as the leading disruptive force, according to an analysis released at this week's Uptime Symposium. The technology we're least likely to see? Onsite clean power generation.

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Wed, 5/15/13 @ 13:00 - From Data Center Knowledge

Financial media giant Bloomberg L.P. is planning to build a $710 million data center in Orangetown, N.Y., a northern suburb of New York City not far from a major data hub for the New York Stock Exchange.

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Wed, 5/15/13 @ 12:00 - From Data Center Knowledge

Colocation and cloud hosting provider InfoRelay Online Systems has opened a new data center in New York City, moving into newly-expanded space in a 365 Main data center at 65 Broadway.

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Wed, 5/15/13 @ 12:30 - From Data Center Knowledge

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.

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Wed, 5/15/13 @ 12:15 - From Data Center Knowledge

T5 Data Centers has completed a loan for $113 million to expand its data center in Dallas, the company said this week. With this additional loan, T5 Data Centers has raised a combined $500 million over the past three years.

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Wed, 5/15/13 @ 11:45 - From Data Center Knowledge

At the 2013 SAP SapphireNow conference in Orlando this week SAP announced a unified strategy for its cloud portfolio, entrance to the sports and entertainment market, and a new mobile secure portfolio of products.

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Wed, 5/15/13 @ 08:48 - From Computer World

Security researchers from Russian cybercrime investigations firm Group-IB have uncovered a cyberfraud operation that uses specialized financial malware to target the customers of several major Australian banks.

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Wed, 5/15/13 @ 07:19 - From Data Center Knowledge

Limelight Networks launches version 2 of its next generation digital presence platform - Orchestrate V2.0, leveraging video, rich media, web, and social content to create consistent and compelling digital experiences across channels, devices, and geographies.

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Wed, 5/15/13 @ 07:30 - From Data Center Knowledge

As the reliance on the modern data center continues to grow, organizations are continuously looking for ways to optimize their environments. Today’s business demands are placing new challenges on the data center infrastructure.

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Wed, 5/15/13 @ 05:00 - From Data Center Knowledge

Two players in the data center management space just got closer. Eaton's power management technologies, which help increase power reliability and control cost by reducing energy consumption, have been integrated into CA's DCIM software, in a turnkey solution.

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Wed, 5/15/13 @ 05:30 - From Data Center Knowledge

Mark Harris of Nlyte shares his experiences, including new approaches in the data center exchange of ideas, from attending the recent Data Center World event.

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Tuesday, May 14th


Tue, 5/14/13 @ 23:52 - From Computer World

Concerned about Amazon.com's low pricing of e-books, publishers had taken measures as early as 2009 such as "windowing," a practice of delaying e-book releases to benefit sales of hardcover editions, Apple said in a filing in an e-book price-fixing lawsuit.

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Tue, 5/14/13 @ 21:06 - From Computer World

Hewlett-Packard has given the "Android treatment" to its latest laptop-tablet hybrid, which is called SlateBook X2 and has a detachable 10-inch screen that can independently function as a tablet.

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Tue, 5/14/13 @ 20:12 - From Computer World

Foxconn's Hon Hai Precision Industry posted a 19.2 percent year-over-year decline in revenue for the first quarter, with sales likely affected by weak demand for Apple's iPhone 5, according to an analyst.

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Tue, 5/14/13 @ 18:35 - From Computer World

Google I/O has not officially started, but the developers' show is already seeing some action. Two warring factions, the Resistance and the Enlightenment, are vying for control of various "portals" at key landmarks throughout San Francisco, which are leaking dangerous amounts of radioactive energy, to determine the fate of the city and ultimately the world.

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Tue, 5/14/13 @ 13:30 - From Data Center Knowledge

The Microsoft data center campus in Quincy, Washington illustrates the evolution of data center design from huge concrete shells to compact modules sitting outdoors on a slab. Data centers have become glamorous, but the Quincy campus is at the forefront of a new minimalist approach offering one...

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Tue, 5/14/13 @ 11:35 - From Data Center Knowledge

Modular data center specialist IO has arranged a new $260 million multi-year credit facility led by Wells Fargo, the company today. IO will use the money to continue to build out its platform of hardware and software to support its "Data Center 2.0" initiative.

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Tue, 5/14/13 @ 11:13 - From Computer World

Microsoft's Windows 8 update, code-named Windows Blue, will be formally released as Windows 8.1 and will be free for customers who have the new OS installed.

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Tue, 5/14/13 @ 10:00 - From Data Center Knowledge

Cloudant has raised a $12 million Series B funding round for its scalable, managed NoSQL Database-as-a-Service offering. Investors in the round include Devonshire Investors, Rackspace, and Toba Capital.

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